Jessica Tandy
Age: 85 | From: London, England
Person Details
Birthday: 1909-06-07 00:21:56
Death: 1994-09-11 00:21:56
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: London, England
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 27
TV Involvements: 16
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
Most Famous Work
Studio One
(1948) Mrs. Moore
Tony Awards
(1956) Self - Winner
The Philco Television Playhouse
(1948) Liz Marriott
The F.B.I.
(1965) Ardyth Nolan
Intimate Portrait
(1993) Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
(1978) Self
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(1955) Laura Bowlby
The Birds
(1963) Lydia BrennerActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2003 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited) | ||
| 1994 | Beryl Peoples | |
| Camilla Cara | ||
| 1993 | Cora Peek | |
| Self | ||
| 1992 | Freida | |
| 1991 | Ninny Threadgoode | |
| Grace McQueen | ||
| 1990 | N/A | |
| Self | ||
| 1989 | Daisy Werthan | |
| 1988 | Alma Finley | |
| Miss Venable | ||
| 1987 | Faye Riley | |
| Annie Nations | ||
| 1985 | Alma Finley | |
| 1984 | Lydia Brenner (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Miss Birdseye | ||
| 1982 | Eleanor McCullen | |
| Grace Rice | ||
| Mrs. Fields | ||
| 1981 | Carol | |
| Fonsia Dorsey | ||
| 1978 | Self | |
| 1974 | Edna Shaft | |
| 1973 | N/A | |
| 1967 | N/A | |
| 1965 | Ardyth Nolan | |
| 1963 | Lydia Brenner | |
| 1962 | Self | |
| Mrs. Helen Adams | ||
| 1959 | Blanche Stroeve | |
| 1958 | Mrs. Martin | |
| Myra Butler | ||
| 1957 | N/A | |
| 1956 | N/A | |
| Self - Award Accepter | ||
| Self - Nominee | ||
| Self - Nominee/Performer | ||
| Self - Winner | ||
| 1955 | Edwina Freel | |
| Julia Lester | ||
| Laura Bowlby | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1954 | Agnes | |
| Liz Marriott | ||
| 1953 | Laura Whitemore | |
| 1952 | N/A | |
| 1951 | Mrs. Martin | |
| Annie Nations | ||
| Frau Lucie Marie Rommel | ||
| Leticia Blacklock | ||
| Cora Torrence | ||
| 1950 | Catherine Lawrence | |
| N/A | ||
| 1948 | Connaught O'Brien | |
| Mrs. Moore | ||
| Liz Marriott | ||
| Self | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| The Public in a scene from 'A Pound on Demand' | ||
| Janet Spence | ||
| 1947 | Nan Britton | |
| 1946 | Kate Leckie | |
| N/A | ||
| Peggy O'Malley | ||
| 1945 | Louise Kane | |
| 1944 | Restaurant Patron (uncredited) | |
| Liesel Roeder | ||
| 1938 | Ann Osborne | |
| 1932 | Penelope, the Maid | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
