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Personal Info

Birth date

1909-06-07 (116 Years)

Day of death

1994-09-11

Gender

Female

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

London, England

Also known as

Jessica Alice Tandy
جسیکا تندی

Jessica Tandy

Biography

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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Filmography

Acting

2006A Streetcar on Broadway as Self (archive footage)

2003Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star as Self (archive footage)

2003Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen as Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)

1998Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes as Self

1994Nobody's Fool as Beryl Peoples

1994Camilla as Camilla Cara

1993To Dance with the White Dog as Cora Peek

1993Intimate Portrait (1 Episode) as Self

1992Used People as Freida

1991Fried Green Tomatoes as Ninny Threadgoode

1991The Story Lady as Grace McQueen

1990Dream On (1 Episode) as (archive footage)

1990Night of 100 Stars III as Self

1989Driving Miss Daisy as Daisy Werthan

1988Cocoon: The Return as Alma Finley

1988The House on Carroll Street as Miss Venable

1987*batteries not included as Faye Riley

1987Foxfire as Annie Nations

1985Cocoon as Alma Finley

1984The Bostonians as Miss Birdseye

1982Best Friends as Eleanor McCullen

1982Still of the Night as Grace Rice

1982The World According to Garp as Mrs. Fields

1981Honky Tonk Freeway as Carol

1981The Gin Game as Fonsia Dorsey

1978The Kennedy Center Honors (1 Episode) as Self

1974Butley as Edna Shaft

1973Tennessee Williams' South as Unknown

1967Judd for the Defense (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Helen Wister

1965The F.B.I. (1 Episode) as Ardyth Nolan

1963The Birds as Lydia Brenner

1962The Merv Griffin Show (2 Episodes) as Self

1962Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man as Mrs. Helen Adams

1959The Moon and Sixpence as Blanche Stroeve

1958The Christmas Tree as Mrs. Martin

1958The Light in the Forest as Myra Butler

1957Suspicion (1 Episode) as Unknown

1956Telephone Time (1 Episode) as Unknown

1956Tony Awards (1, 1, 3, 1, 2, 2 Episode) as Self - Nominee, Self - Nominee/Performer, Self - Winner, Self - Award Accepter, Self - Presenter, Self (archive footage)

1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Edwina Freel, Julia Lester, Laura Bowlby

1955The Fourposter as Unknown

1954Producers' Showcase (38 Episodes) as Agnes

1954The Marriage (8 Episodes) as Liz Marriott

1953General Electric Theater (1 Episode) as Laura Whitemore

1952Omnibus (3, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Self - Reader, Louisa Catherine Johnson, Jackie

1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1, 1 Episode) as Mrs. Martin, Annie Nations

1951The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel as Frau Lucie Marie Rommel

1951Goodyear Television Playhouse (1 Episode) as Leticia Blacklock

1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1 Episode) as Cora Torrence

1950September Affair as Catherine Lawrence

1950Prudential Family Playhouse (13 Episodes) as Unknown

1949Lights Out (1 Episode) as Unknown

1948Studio One (1, 1 Episode) as Connaught O'Brien, Mrs. Moore

1948The Philco Television Playhouse (1 Episode) as Liz Marriott

1948The Ed Sullivan Show (5 Episodes) as Self

1948A Woman's Vengeance as Janet Spence

1947Forever Amber as Nan Britton

1946The Green Years as Kate Leckie

1946Dragonwyck as Peggy O'Malley

1945The Valley of Decision as Louise Kane

1944Blonde Fever as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

1944The Seventh Cross as Liesel Roeder

1944Golden Globe Awards (1 Episode) as Self - Nominee

1938Murder in the Family as Ann Osborne

1932Indiscretions of Eve as Penelope, the Maid