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