Jessica Tandy

Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy (June 7, 1909 – September 11, 1994) was an English-American stage and film actress. She first appeared on the London stage in 1926 at the age of 16, playing, among others, Katherine opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V, and Cordelia opposite John Gielgud's King Lear. She also worked in British films. Following the end of her marriage to Jack Hawkins, she moved to New York, where she met Canadian actor Hume Cronyn. He became her second husband and frequent partner on stage and screen. She won the Tony Award for her performance as Blanche Dubois in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948, sharing the prize with Katherine Cornell (who won for Antony and Cleopatra) and Judith Anderson (for the latter's portrayal of Medea). Over the following three decades, her career continued sporadically and included a substantial role in Alfred Hitchcock's film, The Birds (1963), and a Tony Award-winning performance in The Gin Game (playing in the two-character play opposite her husband, Cronyn) in 1977. She, along with Cronyn was a member of the original acting company of The Guthrie Theater. In the mid 1980s she enjoyed a career revival. She appeared opposite Hume Cronyn in the Broadway production of Foxfire in 1983 and its television adaptation four years later, winning both a Tony Award and an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Annie Nations. During these years, she appeared in films such as Cocoon (1985), also with Cronyn. She became the oldest actress to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Driving Miss Daisy (1989), for which she also won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). At the height of her success, she was named as one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People". She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1990, and continued working until shortly before her death. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Tandy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: London, England, 1909-06-07

Died: 1994-09-11

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1932	Indiscretions of Eve	Penelope, the Maid	0
2	1938	Murder in the Family	Ann Osborne	0
3	1944	The Seventh Cross	Liesel Roeder	67
4	1944	Blonde Fever	Restaurant Patron (uncredited)	44
5	1945	The Valley of Decision	Louise Kane	73
6	1946	Dragonwyck	Peggy O'Malley	67
7	1946	The Green Years	Kate Leckie	65
8	1947	Forever Amber	Nan Britton	61
9	1948	A Woman's Vengeance	Janet Spence	65
10	1950	September Affair	Catherine Lawrence	60
11	1951	The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel	Frau Lucie Marie Rommel	67
12	1955	The Fourposter		0
13	1958	The Light in the Forest	Myra Butler	68
14	1958	The Christmas Tree	Mrs. Martin	0
15	1959	The Moon and Sixpence	Blanche Stroeve	0
16	1962	Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man	Mrs. Helen Adams	48
17	1963	The Birds	Lydia Brenner	75
18	1973	Tennessee Williams' South		100
19	1974	Butley	Edna Shaft	63
20	1981	The Gin Game	Fonsia Dorsey	80
21	1981	Honky Tonk Freeway	Carol	52
22	1982	The World According to Garp	Mrs. Fields	67
23	1982	Still of the Night	Grace Rice	57
24	1982	Best Friends	Eleanor McCullen	51
25	1984	The Bostonians	Miss Birdseye	55
26	1985	Cocoon	Alma Finley	66
27	1987	Foxfire	Annie Nations	70
28	1987	*batteries not included	Faye Riley	67
29	1988	The House on Carroll Street	Miss Venable	58
30	1988	Cocoon: The Return	Alma Finley	65
31	1989	Driving Miss Daisy	Daisy Werthan	72
32	1990	Night of 100 Stars III	Self	40
33	1991	The Story Lady	Grace McQueen	60
34	1991	Fried Green Tomatoes	Ninny Threadgoode	77
35	1992	Used People	Freida	55
36	1993	To Dance with the White Dog	Cora Peek	70
37	1994	Camilla	Camilla Cara	57
38	1994	Nobody's Fool	Beryl Peoples	69
39	1998	Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes	Self	0
40	2003	Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen	Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)	70
41	2003	Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star	Self (archive footage)	60
42	2006	A Streetcar on Broadway	Self (archive footage)	65

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
2	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
3	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Liz Marriott	63
4	1948	Studio One	Connaught O'Brien	50
5	1948	Studio One	Mrs. Moore	50
6	1949	Lights Out		53
7	1950	Prudential Family Playhouse		60
8	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Cora Torrence	73
9	1951	Goodyear Television Playhouse	Leticia Blacklock	53
10	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Mrs. Martin	86
11	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Annie Nations	86
12	1952	Omnibus		60
13	1952	Omnibus	Self - Reader	60
14	1952	Omnibus	Louisa Catherine Johnson	60
15	1952	Omnibus	Jackie	60
16	1953	General Electric Theater	Laura Whitemore	63
17	1954	The Marriage	Liz Marriott	0
18	1954	Producers' Showcase	Agnes	65
19	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Edwina Freel	77
20	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Julia Lester	77
21	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Laura Bowlby	77
22	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	51
23	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee/Performer	51
24	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Winner	51
25	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Award Accepter	51
26	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
27	1956	Tony Awards	Self (archive footage)	51
28	1956	Telephone Time		63
29	1957	Suspicion		59
30	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
31	1965	The F.B.I.	Ardyth Nolan	55
32	1967	Judd for the Defense		75
33	1967	Judd for the Defense	Helen Wister	75
34	1978	The Kennedy Center Honors	Self	74
35	1990	Dream On	(archive footage)	69
36	1993	Intimate Portrait	Self	45

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