Actor

Jessica Tandy

June 7, 1909 · 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).

Notable work

7.5
The Birds (1963)
as Lydia Brenner
7.2
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
as Daisy Werthan
7.7
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
as Ninny Threadgoode
6.6
Cocoon (1985)
as Alma Finley
6.5
Cocoon: The Return (1988)
as Alma Finley
6.7
*batteries not included (1987)
as Faye Riley
6.7
The World According to Garp (1982)
as Mrs. Fields
6.9
Nobody's Fool (1994)
as Beryl Peoples

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