Jessica Tandy
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.
Fotos
Películas (44)
A Streetcar on Broadway
2006 · Self (archive footage)
James Dean: por siempre joven
2005 · Self (archive footage)
Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
2003 · Self (archive footage)
Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen
2003 · Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
1998 · Self
An African love story
1996 · Self
Nobody's Fool
1994 · Beryl Peoples
Camilla
1994 · Camilla Cara
To Dance with the White Dog
1993 · Cora Peek
Used People
1992 · Freida
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991 · Ninny Threadgoode
The Story Lady
1991 · Grace McQueen
Night of 100 Stars III
1990 · Self
Driving Miss Daisy
1989 · Daisy Werthan
Cocoon: The Return
1988 · Alma Finley
The House on Carroll Street
1988 · Miss Venable
*batteries not included
1987 · Faye Riley
Foxfire
1987 · Annie Nations
Cocoon
1985 · Alma Finley
The Bostonians
1984 · Miss Birdseye
Best Friends
1982 · Eleanor McCullen
Still of the Night
1982 · Grace Rice
The World According to Garp
1982 · Mrs. Fields
Honky Tonk Freeway
1981 · Carol
The Gin Game
1981 · Fonsia Dorsey
Butley
1974 · Edna Shaft
Tennessee Williams' South
1973 · Self - Amanda Wingfield
The Birds
1963 · Lydia Brenner
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962 · Mrs. Helen Adams
The Moon and Sixpence
1959 · Blanche Stroeve
The Christmas Tree
1958 · Mrs. Martin
The Light in the Forest
1958 · Myra Butler
The Fourposter
1955
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951 · Frau Lucie Marie Rommel
September Affair
1950 · Catherine Lawrence
A Woman's Vengeance
1948 · Janet Spence
Forever Amber
1947 · Nan Britton
The Green Years
1946 · Kate Leckie
Dragonwyck
1946 · Peggy O'Malley
The Valley of Decision
1945 · Louise Kane
Blonde Fever
1944 · Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
The Seventh Cross
1944 · Liesel Roeder
Murder in the Family
1938 · Ann Osborne
Indiscretions of Eve
1932 · Penelope, the Maid
Series (25)
Intimate Portrait
1993 · Self
Dream On
1990 · (archive footage)
American Playhouse
1982 · Fonsia Dorsey
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · Self
Film '72
1971 · Self
Judd, for the Defense
1967 · Helen Wister
The F.B.I.
1965 · Ardyth Nolan
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
Suspicion
1957
Telephone Time
1956
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Award Accepter, Self - Winner, Self - Nominee, Self (archive footage), Self - Nominee / Performer, Self - Presenter
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Edwina Freel, Julia Lester, Laura Bowlby
Producers' Showcase
1954 · Agnes
The Marriage
1954 · Liz Marriott
General Electric Theater
1953 · Laura Whitemore
Omnibus
1952 · Self - Reader, Louisa Catherine Johnson, Jackie
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Mrs. Martin, Annie Nations
Goodyear Television Playhouse
1951 · Leticia Blacklock
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Cora Torrence, Bertha Jacks
Prudential Family Playhouse
1950
Lights Out
1949
Studio One
1948 · Connaught O'Brien, Mrs. Moore
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · Liz Marriott
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee