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.
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2006
as Self (archive footage)
2003
as Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003
as Self (archive footage)
1994
as Beryl Peoples
1994
as Camilla Cara
1993
as Cora Peek
1993
as Self
1992
as Freida
1991
as Ninny Threadgoode
1991
as Grace McQueen
1990
as (archive footage)
1990
as Self
1989
as Daisy Werthan
1988
as Alma Finley
1988
as Miss Venable
1987
as Faye Riley
1987
as Annie Nations
1985
as Alma Finley
1984
as Miss Birdseye
1982
as Eleanor McCullen
1982
as Grace Rice
1982
as Mrs. Fields
1981
as Carol
1981
as Fonsia Dorsey
1978
as Self
1974
as Edna Shaft
1973
1967
1967
as Helen Wister
1965
as Ardyth Nolan
1963
as Lydia Brenner
1962
as Mrs. Helen Adams
1959
as Blanche Stroeve
1958
as Mrs. Martin
1958
as Myra Butler
1957
1956
1956
as Self - Nominee
1956
as Self - Nominee/Performer
1956
as Self - Winner
1956
as Self - Award Accepter
1956
as Self - Presenter
1955
as Edwina Freel
1955
as Julia Lester
1955
as Laura Bowlby
1955
1954
as Agnes
1954
as Liz Marriott
1953
as Laura Whitemore
1951
as Mrs. Martin
1951
as Annie Nations
1951
as Frau Lucie Marie Rommel
1951
as Leticia Blacklock
1951
as Cora Torrence
1950
as Catherine Lawrence
1950
1949
1948
as Connaught O'Brien
1948
as Mrs. Moore
1948
as Liz Marriott
1948
as Janet Spence
1947
as Nan Britton
1946
as Kate Leckie
1946
as Peggy O'Malley
1945
as Louise Kane
1944
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
1944
as Liesel Roeder
1938
as Ann Osborne
1932
as Penelope, the Maid