Jessica Tandy
Known for Acting · 66 credits
- Born
- 1909-06-07
- Died
- 1994-09-11
- Place of birth
- London, England
- Also known as
- Jessica Alice Tandy · جسیکا تندی
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.
Known For
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Liz Marriott
Studio One
1948
as Connaught O'Brien / Mrs. Moore
The F.B.I.
1965
as Ardyth Nolan
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Award Accepter / Self - Winner / Self - Nominee / Self (archive footage) / Self - Nominee / Performer / Self - Presenter
TV Shows (23)
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Liz Marriott
Studio One
1948
as Connaught O'Brien / Mrs. Moore
The F.B.I.
1965
as Ardyth Nolan
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Award Accepter / Self - Winner / Self - Nominee / Self (archive footage) / Self - Nominee / Performer / Self - Presenter
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self
Lights Out
1949
Omnibus
1952
as Self - Reader / Louisa Catherine Johnson / Jackie
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Edwina Freel / Julia Lester / Laura Bowlby
Telephone Time
1956
Judd, for the Defense
1967
as Helen Wister
Dream On
1990
as (archive footage)
Suspicion
1957
Goodyear Television Playhouse
1951
as Leticia Blacklock
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
as Self
Producers' Showcase
1954
as Agnes
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Mrs. Martin / Annie Nations
General Electric Theater
1953
as Laura Whitemore
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Cora Torrence / Bertha Jacks
The Marriage
1954
as Liz Marriott
Prudential Family Playhouse
1950
Movies (43)
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991
as Ninny Threadgoode
The Birds
1963
as Lydia Brenner
Cocoon
1985
as Alma Finley
Driving Miss Daisy
1989
as Daisy Werthan
*batteries not included
1987
as Faye Riley
Nobody's Fool
1994
as Beryl Peoples
The World According to Garp
1982
as Mrs. Fields
Cocoon: The Return
1988
as Alma Finley
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951
as Frau Lucie Marie Rommel
Best Friends
1982
as Eleanor McCullen
Foxfire
1987
as Annie Nations
Dragonwyck
1946
as Peggy O'Malley
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962
as Mrs. Helen Adams
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
as Self
Still of the Night
1982
as Grace Rice
Used People
1992
as Freida
Forever Amber
1947
as Nan Britton
The House on Carroll Street
1988
as Miss Venable
Camilla
1994
as Camilla Cara
The Story Lady
1991
as Grace McQueen
The Valley of Decision
1945
as Louise Kane
Butley
1974
as Edna Shaft
The Bostonians
1984
as Miss Birdseye
Honky Tonk Freeway
1981
as Carol
A Woman's Vengeance
1948
as Janet Spence
The Seventh Cross
1944
as Liesel Roeder
The Green Years
1946
as Kate Leckie
The Light in the Forest
1958
as Myra Butler
To Dance with the White Dog
1993
as Cora Peek
Tennessee Williams' South
1973
The Christmas Tree
1958
as Mrs. Martin
September Affair
1950
as Catherine Lawrence
The Gin Game
1981
as Fonsia Dorsey
Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
1998
as Self
The Moon and Sixpence
1959
as Blanche Stroeve
Blonde Fever
1944
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
An African love story
1996
as Self
The Fourposter
1955
Indiscretions of Eve
1932
as Penelope, the Maid
Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
2003
as Self (archive footage)
A Streetcar on Broadway
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Murder in the Family
1938
as Ann Osborne
Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen
2003
as Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)
About Jessica Tandy
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 p… With 66 credits spanning from 1932 to 2006, Jessica Tandy has appeared in 43 films and 23 TV shows.
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- Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) — as Ninny Threadgoode
- The Birds (1963) — as Lydia Brenner
- Cocoon (1985) — as Alma Finley
- Driving Miss Daisy (1989) — as Daisy Werthan
- *batteries not included (1987) — as Faye Riley
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