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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 7, 1909
Died
September 11, 1994
Place of Birth
London, England
Also Known As
- Jessica Alice Tandy
- جسیکا تندی
Jessica Tandy
1.9 Popularity
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 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.
Known For
6.5
Self (archive footage)
A Streetcar on Broadway
2006
7.0
Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen
2003
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
2003
🎬
0.0
Self
Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
1998
6.8
Beryl Peoples
Nobody's Fool
1994
5.5
Camilla Cara
Camilla
1994
7.0
Cora Peek
To Dance with the White Dog
1993
4.5
Self
Intimate Portrait
1993
5.7
Freida
Used People
1992
7.7
Ninny Threadgoode
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991
Credits
A Streetcar on Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
2006
6.5
Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen
as Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003
7.0
Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
as Self (archive footage)
2003
6.0
🎬
Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
as Self
1998
0.0
Nobody's Fool
as Beryl Peoples
1994
6.8
Camilla
as Camilla Cara
1994
5.5
To Dance with the White Dog
as Cora Peek
1993
7.0
Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993
4.5
Used People
as Freida
1992
5.7
Fried Green Tomatoes
as Ninny Threadgoode
1991
7.7
The Story Lady
as Grace McQueen
1991
6.0
Dream On
as (archive footage)
1990
6.9
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
1990
4.0
Driving Miss Daisy
as Daisy Werthan
1989
7.2
Cocoon: The Return
as Alma Finley
1988
6.5
The House on Carroll Street
as Miss Venable
1988
5.8
*batteries not included
as Faye Riley
1987
6.7
Foxfire
as Annie Nations
1987
7.0
Cocoon
as Alma Finley
1985
6.6
The Bostonians
as Miss Birdseye
1984
5.5
Best Friends
as Eleanor McCullen
1982
5.1
Still of the Night
as Grace Rice
1982
5.7
The World According to Garp
as Mrs. Fields
1982
6.7
Honky Tonk Freeway
as Carol
1981
5.2
The Gin Game
as Fonsia Dorsey
1981
8.0
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
1978
7.4
Butley
as Edna Shaft
1974
6.0
Tennessee Williams' South
1973
10.0
Judd for the Defense
1967
7.5
Judd for the Defense
as Helen Wister
1967
7.5
The F.B.I.
as Ardyth Nolan
1965
5.4
The Birds
as Lydia Brenner
1963
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
as Mrs. Helen Adams
1962
5.2
The Moon and Sixpence
as Blanche Stroeve
1959
0.0
🎬
The Christmas Tree
as Mrs. Martin
1958
0.0
The Light in the Forest
as Myra Butler
1958
6.8
Suspicion
1957
5.9
Telephone Time
1956
6.3
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee/Performer
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Award Accepter
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self (archive footage)
1956
5.9
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Edwina Freel
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Julia Lester
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Laura Bowlby
1955
7.8
The Fourposter
1955
0.0
🎬
Producers' Showcase
as Agnes
1954
6.5
🎬
The Marriage
as Liz Marriott
1954
0.0
General Electric Theater
as Laura Whitemore
1953
6.4
Omnibus
1952
6.0
Omnibus
as Self - Reader
1952
6.0
Omnibus
as Louisa Catherine Johnson
1952
6.0
Omnibus
as Jackie
1952
6.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Mrs. Martin
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Annie Nations
1951
8.6
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
as Frau Lucie Marie Rommel
1951
6.7
Goodyear Television Playhouse
as Leticia Blacklock
1951
5.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Cora Torrence
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Bertha Jacks
1951
7.2
September Affair
as Catherine Lawrence
1950
5.8
🎬
Prudential Family Playhouse
1950
6.0
Lights Out
1949
5.8
Studio One
as Connaught O'Brien
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Mrs. Moore
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Liz Marriott
1948
6.3
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
A Woman's Vengeance
as Janet Spence
1948
6.2
Forever Amber
as Nan Britton
1947
6.0
The Green Years
as Kate Leckie
1946
6.3
Dragonwyck
as Peggy O'Malley
1946
6.7
The Valley of Decision
as Louise Kane
1945
7.3
Blonde Fever
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
1944
3.9
The Seventh Cross
as Liesel Roeder
1944
6.7
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
🎬
Murder in the Family
as Ann Osborne
1938
0.0
Indiscretions of Eve
as Penelope, the Maid
1932
0.0