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Jessica Tandy

Stage Actress / Film Actress / Television Actress | * 06/07/1909 († 85, 09/11/1994) | London (United Kingdom (UK))
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Jessie Alice Tandy (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was an English 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 Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. She won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for playing Blanche DuBois in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948, also winning for The Gin Game and Foxfire. Her films included Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, Cocoon, Fried Green Tomatoes, and Nobody's Fool. At 80, she became the oldest actress to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Driving Miss Daisy. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | TV Movies

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The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two ve ...

Driving Miss Daisy

PG

1989 | 3.6/5 | 1h 39min
Drama
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Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon h ...

The Birds

NR

1963 | 3.8/5 | 1h 59min
Horror
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In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land ...

*batteries not included

PG

1987 | 3.3/5 | 1h 46min
Science Fiction, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
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Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced har ...

Fried Green Tomatoes

PG-13

1991 | 3.8/5 | 2h 10min
Drama, Comedy
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Awards & Nominations for Jessica Tandy

National Medal of Arts Academy Award for Best Actress 3x Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play Kennedy Center Honors Crystal Award BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Actress Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play
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Movies with Jessica Tandy as Actress(42)

as Self (archive footage)2006 A Streetcar on Broadway
as Self (archive footage)2003 Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
as Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)2003 Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen
as Beryl Peoples1994 Nobody's Fool
as Camilla Cara1994 Camilla
as Cora Peek1993 To Dance with the White Dog
as Freida1992 Used People
as Grace McQueen1991 The Story Lady
as Ninny Threadgoode1991 Fried Green Tomatoes
as herself1990 Night Of 100 Stars III
as Daisy Werthan1989 Driving Miss Daisy
as Alma Finley1988 Cocoon: The Return
as Miss Venable1988 The House on Carroll Street
as Annie Nations1987 Foxfire
as Faye Riley1987 *batteries not included
as Alma Finley1985 Cocoon
as Miss Birdseye1984 The Bostonians
as Lydia Brenner (archive footage) (uncredited)1984 Terror in the Aisles
as Grace Rice1982 Still of the Night
as Mrs. Fields1982 The World According to Garp
as Eleanor McCullen1982 Best Friends
as Carol1981 Honky Tonk Freeway
as Fonsia Dorsey1981 The Gin Game
as Edna Shaft1974 Butley
1973 Tennessee Williams' South
as Lydia Brenner1963 The Birds
as Mrs. Helen Adams1962 Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
as Blanche Stroeve1959 The Moon and Sixpence
as Mrs. Martin1958 The Christmas Tree
as Myra Butler1958 The Light in the Forest
1955 The Fourposter
as Frau Lucie Marie Rommel1951 The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
as Catherine Lawrence1950 September Affair
as Janet Spence1948 A Woman's Vengeance
as Nan Britton1947 Forever Amber
as Peggy O'Malley1946 Dragonwyck
as Kate Leckie1946 The Green Years
as Louise Kane1945 The Valley of Decision
as Restaurant Patron1944 Blonde Fever
as Liesel Roeder1944 The Seventh Cross
as Ann Osborne1938 Murder in the Family
as Maid1932 The Indiscretions of Eve

TV Shows/Series with Jessica Tandy as Actress(26)

1990 Dream On
as herself1978 The Kennedy Center Honors
1967 Judd for the Defense
as Ardyth Nolan1965 The F.B.I.
as herself1962 The Merv Griffin Show
1957 Suspicion
1956 Telephone Time
as Edwina Freel1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Julia Lester1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Laura Bowlby1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Liz Marriott1954 The Marriage
as Agnes1954 Producers' Showcase
as Laura Whitemore1953 GE Theater
1952 Omnibus
as Leticia Blacklock1951 Goodyear Television Playhouse
as Cora Torrence1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Mrs. Martin1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Annie Nations1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame
1950 Prudential Family Playhouse
as herself1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self - Guest1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
as The Public in a scene from 'A Pound on Demand'1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
as Connaught O'Brien1948 Studio One
as Mrs. Moore1948 Studio One
as Liz Marriott1948 The Philco Television Playhouse
1946 Lights Out

Full Name: Jessica Tandy
Born: Monday, 06/07 1909 (June) in London (United Kingdom (UK))
Died: Sunday, 09/11 1994 (September) in Fairfield County (aged: 85)
Zodiac sign: Gemini (Chinese zodiac sign: Rooster)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Dame Alice Owen's School
Spouses (current/former): Hume Cronyn, Jack Hawkins
Children: Tandy Cronyn
Other names for Jessica Tandy (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Jessica Alice Tandy"
Jessica Tandy frequently works together with these people:
Hume Cronyn (38x, Actor)
E.G. Marshall (25x, Actor)
Charlton Heston (23x, Actor)
James Daly (22x, Actor)
John Forsythe (21x, Actor)
Everett Sloane (21x, Actor)
Kevin McCarthy (21x, Actor)
James Gregory (19x, Actor)
Edward Andrews (17x, Actor)
Phyllis Thaxter (17x, Actress)
Vaughn Taylor (17x, Actor)
Robert Benton (6x, Crew)
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