Jessica Tandy
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 7, 1909
- Died
- September 11, 1994 (aged 85)
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
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
A Streetcar on Broadway
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
James Dean: Forever Young
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen
Movie · as Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
Movie · as Self
An African love story
Movie · as Self
Nobody's Fool
Movie · as Beryl Peoples
Camilla
Movie · as Camilla Cara
To Dance with the White Dog
Movie · as Cora Peek
Intimate Portrait
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Used People
Movie · as Freida
Fried Green Tomatoes
Movie · as Ninny Threadgoode
The Story Lady
Movie · as Grace McQueen
Night of 100 Stars III
Movie · as Self
Dream On
TV · as (archive footage) · 1 ep
Driving Miss Daisy
Movie · as Daisy Werthan
Cocoon: The Return
Movie · as Alma Finley
The House on Carroll Street
Movie · as Miss Venable
*batteries not included
Movie · as Faye Riley
Foxfire
Movie · as Annie Nations
Cocoon
Movie · as Alma Finley
The Bostonians
Movie · as Miss Birdseye
The World According to Garp
Movie · as Mrs. Fields
Still of the Night
Movie · as Grace Rice
Best Friends
Movie · as Eleanor McCullen
American Playhouse
TV · as Fonsia Dorsey · 1 ep
The Gin Game
Movie · as Fonsia Dorsey
Honky Tonk Freeway
Movie · as Carol
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Butley
Movie · as Edna Shaft
Tennessee Williams' South
Movie · as Self - Amanda Wingfield
Film '72
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Judd, for the Defense
TV · as Helen Wister · 1 ep
The F.B.I.
TV · as Ardyth Nolan · 1 ep
The Birds
Movie · as Lydia Brenner
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Movie · as Mrs. Helen Adams
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Moon and Sixpence
Movie · as Blanche Stroeve
The Light in the Forest
Movie · as Myra Butler
The Christmas Tree
Movie · as Mrs. Martin
Suspicion
TV · 1 ep
Telephone Time
TV · 1 ep
Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Award Accepter, Self - Winner, Self - Nominee, Self (archive footage), Self - Nominee / Performer, Self - Presenter · 1 ep
The Fourposter
Movie
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Edwina Freel, Julia Lester, Laura Bowlby · 1 ep
Producers' Showcase
TV · as Agnes · 38 eps
The Marriage
TV · as Liz Marriott · 8 eps
General Electric Theater
TV · as Laura Whitemore · 1 ep
Omnibus
TV · as Self - Reader, Louisa Catherine Johnson, Jackie · 3 eps
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Movie · as Frau Lucie Marie Rommel
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Mrs. Martin, Annie Nations · 1 ep
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · as Cora Torrence, Bertha Jacks · 1 ep
Goodyear Television Playhouse
TV · as Leticia Blacklock · 1 ep
September Affair
Movie · as Catherine Lawrence
Prudential Family Playhouse
TV · 13 eps
Lights Out
TV · 1 ep
A Woman's Vengeance
Movie · as Janet Spence
Studio One
TV · as Connaught O'Brien, Mrs. Moore · 1 ep
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 5 eps
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV · as Liz Marriott · 1 ep
Forever Amber
Movie · as Nan Britton
Dragonwyck
Movie · as Peggy O'Malley
The Green Years
Movie · as Kate Leckie
The Valley of Decision
Movie · as Louise Kane
The Seventh Cross
Movie · as Liesel Roeder
Blonde Fever
Movie · as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee · 1 ep
Murder in the Family
Movie · as Ann Osborne
Indiscretions of Eve
Movie · as Penelope, the Maid