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Jessie Alice Tandy (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was a British-American actress. Tandy appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV, receiving an Academy Award, four Tony Awards, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. She acted as Blanche DuBois in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948. Her films included Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and The Gin Game. At 80, she became the oldest actress to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Driving Miss Daisy.

Jessica Tandy
Tandy, c. 1950s
Born	Jessie Alice Tandy (1909-06-07)7 June 1909 Hackney, London, England
Died	11 September 1994(1994-09-11) (aged 85) Easton, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1927–1994
Spouse(s)	Jack Hawkins ​ ​ (m. 1932; div. 1940)​ Hume Cronyn ​ (m. 1942)​
Children	3

Early life

The youngest of three siblings, Tandy was born in Geldeston Road in Hackney, London to Harry Tandy and his wife, Jessie Helen Horspool.[1] Her mother was from a large fenland family in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and the head of a school for mentally handicapped children, and her father was a travelling salesman for a rope manufacturer.[2] She was educated at Dame Alice Owen's School in Islington.

Her father died when she was 12, and her mother subsequently taught evening courses to earn an income. Her brother Edward was later a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Asia.[3]

Acting career

Tandy was 18 years old when she made her professional debut on the London stage in 1927. During the 1930s, she acted in many plays in London's West End, playing Ophelia (opposite John Gielgud's legendary Hamlet) and Katherine (opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V).[4]

She entered films in Britain, but after her marriage to Jack Hawkins failed, she moved to the United States hoping to find better roles. During her time as a leading actress on the stage in London, she often had to fight over roles with her two rivals, Peggy Ashcroft and Celia Johnson.[5] In the following years, she played supporting roles in several Hollywood films.

Like many stage actors, Tandy also worked in radio. Among other programs, she was a regular on Mandrake the Magician[6] (as Princess Nada), and then with her second husband Hume Cronyn in The Marriage[7] which ran on radio from 1953 to 1954, and then segued onto television.

She made her American film debut in The Seventh Cross (1944). She had supporting appearances in The Valley of Decision (1945), The Green Years (1946, as Cronyn's daughter), Dragonwyck (1946) starring Gene Tierney and Vincent Price and Forever Amber (1947). She appeared as the insomniac murderess in A Woman's Vengeance (1948), a film noir adapted by Aldous Huxley from his short story "The Gioconda Smile".

Over the next three decades, her film career continued sporadically while she found better roles on the stage. Her roles during this time included The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951) opposite James Mason, The Light in the Forest (1958), and a role as a domineering mother in Alfred Hitchcock's film, The Birds (1963).

On Broadway, she won a Tony Award for her performance as Blanche Dubois in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948. After this (she lost the film role to actress Vivien Leigh), she concentrated on the stage. In 1976, she and Cronyn joined the acting company of the Stratford Festival, and returned in 1980 to debut Cronyn's play Foxfire.[8][9] In 1977, she earned her second Tony Award, for her performance (with Cronyn) in The Gin Game and her third Tony in 1982 for her performance, again with Cronyn, in Foxfire.

The beginning of the 1980s saw a resurgence in her film career, with character roles in The World According to Garp, Best Friends, Still of the Night (all 1982) and The Bostonians (1984). She and Cronyn were now working together more regularly on stage and television, including the films Cocoon (1985), *batteries not included (1987) and Cocoon: The Return (1988) and the Emmy Award winning television film Foxfire (1987, recreating her Tony winning Broadway role).

However, it was her colourful performance in Driving Miss Daisy (1989), as an aging, stubborn Southern Jewish matron, that earned her an Oscar.[10]

She received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her work in the grassroots hit Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and co-starred in The Story Lady (1991 TV film, with her daughter Tandy Cronyn), Used People (1992, as Shirley MacLaine's mother), television film To Dance with the White Dog (1993, with Cronyn), Camilla (1994, with Cronyn). Nobody's Fool (1994) proved to be her last performance, at the age of 84.

Other awards

Tandy was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1990.[11]

• 1979 – Induction into the American Theatre Hall of Fame[12]
• 1979 – Sarah Siddons Award Chicago theatre
• 1986 – Drama Desk Special Award
• 1986 – Kennedy Center Honors Recipient
• 1990 – National Medal of Arts
• 1991 – Women in Film Crystal Award[13]
• 1994 – Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement shared with her husband, Hume Cronyn

Personal life and death

In 1932 Tandy married English actor Jack Hawkins and together they had a daughter, Susan Hawkins.[14] Susan became an actress and was the daughter-in-law of John Moynihan Tettemer, a former Passionist monk who authored I Was a Monk: The Autobiography of John Tettemer, and was cast in small roles in Lost Horizon and Meet John Doe.[15]

Tandy and Hawkins divorced in 1940. She married Canadian actor Hume Cronyn in 1942.[14] Prior to moving to Connecticut, she and Cronyn lived for many years in nearby Pound Ridge, New York, and they remained together until her death in 1994. They had two children, daughter Tandy Cronyn, an actress who would co-star with her mother in the TV film The Story Lady, and son Christopher Cronyn. Tandy became a naturalized citizen of the US in 1952.

In 1990, Jessica Tandy was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and she also suffered from angina and glaucoma. Despite her illnesses and age she continued working. On September 11, 1994, she died at home in Easton, Connecticut, at the age of 85.[16][17][18]

Work

U.S. stage credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1930	The Matriarch	Toni Rakonitz
1930	The Last Enemy	Cynthia Perry
1938	Time and the Conways	Kay
1939	The White Steed	Nora Fintry
1940	Geneva	Deaconess
1940	Jupiter Laughs	Dr. Mary Murray
1941	Anne of England	Abigail Hill
1942	Yesterday's Magic	daughter Cattrin
1947	A Streetcar Named Desire	Blanche DuBois	Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
1950	Hilda Crane	Hilda Crane
1951	Madam, Will You Walk	Mary Doyle
1951	The Fourposter	Agnes
1955	The Man in the Dog Suit	Martha Walling
1955	The Honeys	Mary
1959	Triple Play	In Bedtime Story: Angela Nightingale In Portrait of a Madonna: Miss Lucretia Collins In A Pound on Demand: The Public
1959	Five Finger Exercise	Louise Harrington
1964	The Physicists	Fraulein Doktor Mathilde von Zahnd
1966	A Delicate Balance	Agnes
1970	Camino Real	Marguerite Gautier
1970	Home	Marjorie
1971	All Over	The Wife
1972	Not I[19]	Mouth	Obie Award for Best Actress
1974	Noël Coward in Two Keys	In A Song at Twilight: Hilde Latymer In Come Into the Garden, Maud: Anna Mary Conklin
1977	The Gin Game	Fonsia Dorsey	Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
1981	Rose	Mother	Nominated—Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play Nominated—Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
1982	Foxfire	Annie Nations	Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
1983	The Glass Menagerie	Amanda Wingfield
1986	The Petition	Lady Elizabeth Milne	Nominated—Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1932	The Indiscretions of Eve	Maid
1938	Murder in the Family	Ann Osborne
1944	The Seventh Cross	Liesel Roeder
1944	Blonde Fever	Diner at Inn	Uncredited
1945	The Valley of Decision	Louise Kane
1946	The Green Years	Kate Leckie
1946	Dragonwyck	Peggy O'Malley
1947	Forever Amber	Nan Britton
1948	A Woman's Vengeance	Janet Spence
1950	September Affair	Catherine Lawrence
1951	The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel	Frau Lucie Maria Rommel
1956	Producers' Showcase		Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
1957	The Glass Eye	Julia Lester	Short film presented in "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
1958	The Light in the Forest	Myra Butler
1962	Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man	Helen Adams	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
1963	The Birds	Lydia Brenner
1975	Bicentennial Minute for 31 August 1775, Destruction of Boston's Liberty Tree	Herself	CBS Television Network, 31 August 1975 - Sponsor: Royal Dutch Shell
1976	Butley	Edna Shaft
1981	Honky Tonk Freeway	Carol
1982	The World According to Garp	Mrs. Fields
1982	Still of the Night	Grace Rice
1982	Best Friends	Eleanor McCullen
1984	The Bostonians	Miss Birdseye
1984	Terror in the Aisles	Herself	Archival footage
1985	Cocoon	Alma Finley	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
1987	Foxfire	Annie Nations	TV movie Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
1987	*batteries not included	Faye Riley	Saturn Award for Best Actress
1988	The House on Carroll Street	Miss Venable
1988	Cocoon: The Return	Alma Finley	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
1989	Driving Miss Daisy	Daisy Werthan	Academy Award for Best Actress BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Silver Bear for the Best Joint Performance (with Morgan Freeman)[20] Nominated—American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
1991	The Story Lady	Grace McQueen	TV movie Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
1991	Fried Green Tomatoes	Ninny Threadgoode	Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
1992	Used People	Freida
1993	To Dance with the White Dog	Cora Peek	Television movie Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
1994	A Century of Cinema	Herself	documentary
1994	Camilla	Camilla Cara	Released posthumously
1994	Nobody's Fool	Beryl Peoples	Released posthumously, (final film role)

*Re-issued on DVD as The Christmas Story Lady

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1956	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Edwina Freel	Episode: "Toby"
1957	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Julia Lester	Episode: "The Glass Eye"
1958	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Laura Bowlby	Episode: "The Canary Sedan"
1994	ER	Mrs Backer	Episode: "Going Home"

References

External links

• Jessica Tandy at Find a Grave
• Jessica Tandy at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jessica Tandy at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Jessica Tandy at IMDb
• Movie Magazine International Tribute
• Lifetime Honors – National Medal of Arts
• Obituary—The New York Times, 12 September 1994
• Katharine Cronyn Harley fonds (R11163) at Library and Archives Canada. The fonds includes many records related to Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn.

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[de] Jessica Tandy

Jessica Alice Tandy (* 7. Juni 1909 in London, England; † 11. September 1994 in Easton, Connecticut) war eine britische Schauspielerin. Für ihre Titelrolle in Miss Daisy und ihr Chauffeur erhielt sie 1990 den Oscar.

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[es] Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy (Hackney, Londres, 7 de junio de 1909 - Easton, Connecticut, 11 de septiembre de 1994) fue una actriz de teatro, cine y televisión británica, ganadora del premio Óscar a la mejor actriz en 1989 por Paseando a Miss Daisy. Además fue ella quien encarnó por primera vez, en 1948, el papel de Blanche DuBois en el drama de teatro Un tranvía llamado Deseo, por el cual ganó un premio Tony.

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[ru] Тэнди, Джессика

Джессика Тэнди (англ. Jessica Tandy), урождённая Джесси Элис Тэнди (англ. Jessie Alice Tandy; 7 июня 1909, Хакни, Лондон — 11 сентября 1994, Истон, Коннектикут) — британо-американская актриса. Обладательница премий «Оскар», «Золотой глобус», BAFTA, «Эмми» и четырёх премий «Тони». Наиболее известна по главной роли в фильме «Шофёр мисс Дэйзи» (1990).

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