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Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy (June 7, 1909 – September 11, 1994) was an English-American stage and film actress.
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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.
Gender
Female
Birthday
June 7, 1909
Died
September 11, 1994
Birthplace
London, England
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1958
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1994
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1963
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1959
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962
The Valley of Decision
1945
A Woman's Vengeance
1948
The Story Lady
1991
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991
Driving Miss Daisy
1989
*batteries not included
1987
Cocoon
1985
Tennessee Williams' South
1973
The Seventh Cross
1944
The Bostonians
1984
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1944
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
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1956
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1956
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1956
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The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Studio One
1948
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1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
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Intimate Portrait
1993
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
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1955
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1955
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1952
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1952
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