Jessica Tandy
Gender: Female
Born: 7th June 1909
Died: 11th September 1994
Nationality: England, United Kingdom, United States of America
TV programs: The Marriage, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Star Stage, The United States Steel Hour, Hallmark Hall of Fame, The Alcoa Hour, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Telephone Time, General Electric Theater, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, Prudential Family Playhouse, Suspicion, Omnibus, Actors Studio, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Studio One, Goodyear Television Playhouse, Norman Corwin Presents, The F.B.I., Dream On, The Philco Television Playhouse, Judd, for the Defense, Lights Out, Producers' Showcase, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, O'Hara, U.S. Treasury, Omnibus
Movies: *batteries not included, Driving Miss Daisy, Nobody's Fool, The Birds, The Bostonians, Cocoon, The Valley of Decision, Cocoon: The Return, The Seventh Cross, Dragonwyck, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, Still of the Night, The Green Years, Honky Tonk Freeway, To Dance with the White Dog, Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, The Light in the Forest, Best Friends, Camilla, Used People, September Affair, The House on Carroll Street, The World According to Garp, Blonde Fever, Butley, Murder in the Family, Forever Amber, A Woman's Vengeance
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 other roles, 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 the British actor 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 the female lead in 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 supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, The Birds (1963), and a Tony Award-winning performance in The Gin Game (1977, playing in the two-hander play opposite Hume Cronyn). Along with Cronyn, she was a member of the original acting company of the Guthrie Theater.
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