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Jessica Tandy

Born · June 7, 1909

Died · September 11, 1994 (85 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: London, England

Bio

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

The Birds

The Birds

Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy

Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes

Cocoon

Cocoon

A Streetcar on Broadway

Self (archive footage)

2006

Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen

Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)

2003

Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star

Self (archive footage)

2003

Nobody's Fool

Beryl Peoples

1994

Camilla

Camilla Cara

1994

To Dance with the White Dog

Cora Peek

1993

Intimate Portrait

Self · (1 episode)

1993

Used People

Freida

1992

Fried Green Tomatoes

Ninny Threadgoode

1991

The Story Lady

Grace McQueen

1991

Dream On

(archive footage) · (1 episode)

1990

Night of 100 Stars III

Self

1990

Driving Miss Daisy

Daisy Werthan

1989

Cocoon: The Return

Alma Finley

1988

The House on Carroll Street

Miss Venable

1988

*batteries not included

Faye Riley

1987

Foxfire

Annie Nations

1987

Cocoon

Alma Finley

1985

The Bostonians

Miss Birdseye

1984

Best Friends

Eleanor McCullen

1982

Still of the Night

Grace Rice

1982

The World According to Garp

Mrs. Fields

1982

Honky Tonk Freeway

Carol

1981

The Gin Game

Fonsia Dorsey

1981

The Kennedy Center Honors

Self · (1 episode)

1978

Butley

Edna Shaft

1974

Tennessee Williams' South

1973

Judd for the Defense

(1 episode)

1967

Judd for the Defense

Helen Wister · (1 episode)

1967

The F.B.I.

Ardyth Nolan · (1 episode)

1965

The Birds

Lydia Brenner

1963

The Merv Griffin Show

Self · (2 episodes)

1962

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man

Mrs. Helen Adams

1962

The Moon and Sixpence

Blanche Stroeve

1959

The Christmas Tree

Mrs. Martin

1958

The Light in the Forest

Myra Butler

1958

Suspicion

(1 episode)

1957

Telephone Time

(1 episode)

1956

Tony Awards

Self - Nominee · (1 episode)

1956

Tony Awards

Self - Nominee/Performer · (1 episode)

1956

Tony Awards

Self - Winner · (3 episodes)

1956

Tony Awards

Self - Award Accepter · (1 episode)

1956

Tony Awards

Self - Presenter · (2 episodes)

1956

Tony Awards

Self (archive footage) · (2 episodes)

1956

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Edwina Freel · (1 episode)

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Julia Lester · (1 episode)

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Laura Bowlby · (1 episode)

1955

The Fourposter

1955

Producers' Showcase

Agnes · (38 episodes)

1954

The Marriage

Liz Marriott · (8 episodes)

1954

General Electric Theater

Laura Whitemore · (1 episode)

1953

Omnibus

(3 episodes)

1952

Omnibus

Self - Reader · (1 episode)

1952

Omnibus

Louisa Catherine Johnson · (1 episode)

1952

Omnibus

Jackie · (1 episode)

1952

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Mrs. Martin · (1 episode)

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Annie Nations · (1 episode)

1951

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

Frau Lucie Marie Rommel

1951

Goodyear Television Playhouse

Leticia Blacklock · (1 episode)

1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Cora Torrence · (1 episode)

1951

September Affair

Catherine Lawrence

1950

Prudential Family Playhouse

(13 episodes)

1950

Lights Out

(1 episode)

1949

Studio One

Connaught O'Brien · (1 episode)

1948

Studio One

Mrs. Moore · (1 episode)

1948

The Philco Television Playhouse

Liz Marriott · (1 episode)

1948

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self · (5 episodes)

1948

A Woman's Vengeance

Janet Spence

1948

Forever Amber

Nan Britton

1947

The Green Years

Kate Leckie

1946

Dragonwyck

Peggy O'Malley

1946

The Valley of Decision

Louise Kane

1945

Blonde Fever

Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

1944

The Seventh Cross

Liesel Roeder

1944

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee · (1 episode)

1944

Murder in the Family

Ann Osborne

1938

Indiscretions of Eve

Penelope, the Maid

1932