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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 Oliviers Henry V, and Cordelia opposite John Gielguds 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 latters portrayal of Medea). Over the following three decades, her career continued sporadically and included a substantial role in Alfred Hitchcocks 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 Peoples 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.
Catherine Lawrence
Film 1950
Camilla Cara
Film 1994
Janet Spence
Film 1948
Kate Leckie
Film 1946
Edna Shaft
Film 1974
Annie Nations
Film 1987
Film 1973
Film 1955
Self
Film 1990
Fonsia Dorsey
Film 1981
Penelope, the Maid
Film 1932
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Film 1944
Mrs. Martin
Film 1958
Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 2003
Self (archive footage)
Film 2003
Self (archive footage)
Film 2006
Blanche Stroeve
Film 1959
Tv 1952
Self
Tv 1962
Agnes
Tv 1954
Tv 1949
Tv 1957
Tv 1956
Self
Tv 1978
Liz Marriott
Tv 1954
Tv 1950
Self - Nominee
Tv 1956
Self
Tv 1993
Self - Nominee/Performer
Tv 1956
Self - Winner
Tv 1956
Self - Award Accepter
Tv 1956
Self - Presenter
Tv 1956
Self - Nominee
Tv 1944
Self - Reader
Tv 1952
Louisa Catherine Johnson
Tv 1952
Jackie
Tv 1952
