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.
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