1909-06-07 ( 115 years old ) in London, England
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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Movies
A Streetcar on Broadway
2006-01-01
Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen
2003-02-04
Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
2003-02-04
Nobody's Fool
1994-12-23
Camilla
1994-11-25
To Dance with the White Dog
1993-12-05
Used People
1992-12-16
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991-12-27
The Story Lady
1991-12-09
Night of 100 Stars III
1990-05-21
Driving Miss Daisy
1989-12-13
Cocoon: The Return
1988-09-13
The House on Carroll Street
1988-03-04
*batteries not included
1987-12-18
Foxfire
1987-12-13
Cocoon
1985-06-21
The Bostonians
1984-05-01
Best Friends
1982-12-17
Still of the Night
1982-11-19
The World According to Garp
1982-08-13
Honky Tonk Freeway
1981-08-21
The Gin Game
1981-04-21
Butley
1974-01-21
Tennessee Williams' South
1973-01-01
The Birds
1963-03-28
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
1962-07-25
The Moon and Sixpence
1959-10-30
The Christmas Tree
1958-12-14
The Light in the Forest
1958-07-08
The Fourposter
1955-01-01
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951-10-16
September Affair
1950-10-18
A Woman's Vengeance
1948-03-02
Forever Amber
1947-10-10
The Green Years
1946-07-04
Dragonwyck
1946-04-19
The Valley of Decision
1945-05-03
Blonde Fever
1944-12-05
The Seventh Cross
1944-07-24
Murder in the Family
1938-01-01
Indiscretions of Eve
1932-09-12
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