Jessica Tandy

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1909-06-07 (85 years old)

Deathday

1994-09-11

Place of Birth

London, England

Jessica Tandy

Biography

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 194...

Acting

1989

Driving Miss Daisy

as Daisy Werthan

1963

The Birds

as Lydia Brenner

1991

Fried Green Tomatoes

as Ninny Threadgoode

1985

Cocoon

as Alma Finley

1987

1988

Cocoon: The Return

as Alma Finley

1982

1994

Nobody's Fool

as Beryl Peoples

1982

Still of the Night

as Grace Rice

1951

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

as Frau Lucie Marie Rommel

1946

Dragonwyck

as Peggy O'Malley

1984

The Bostonians

as Miss Birdseye

1938

Murder in the Family

as Ann Osborne

1945

1982

Best Friends

as Eleanor McCullen

1958

1950

September Affair

as Catherine Lawrence

1988

1944

The Seventh Cross

as Liesel Roeder

1994

Camilla

as Camilla Cara

1948

A Woman's Vengeance

as Janet Spence

1991

The Story Lady

as Grace McQueen

1946

The Green Years

as Kate Leckie

1947

Forever Amber

as Nan Britton

1974

Butley

as Edna Shaft

1987

Foxfire

as Annie Nations

1992

Used People

as Freida

1981

The Gin Game

as Fonsia Dorsey

1932

Indiscretions of Eve

as Penelope, the Maid

1944

Blonde Fever

as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

1958

The Christmas Tree

as Mrs. Martin

1981

2003

Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen

as Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)

2006

A Streetcar on Broadway

as Self (archive footage)

1959

The Moon and Sixpence

as Blanche Stroeve

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