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