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Nobody's Fool

as Beryl Peoples

1994
Camilla

as Camilla Cara

1994
To Dance with the White Dog

as Cora Peek

1993
Used People

as Freida

1992
Fried Green Tomatoes

as Ninny Threadgoode

1991
Driving Miss Daisy

as Daisy Werthan

1989
Cocoon: The Return

as Alma Finley

1988
The House on Carroll Street

as Miss Venable

1988
*batteries not included

as Faye Riley

1987
Cocoon

as Alma Finley

1985
The Bostonians

as Miss Birdseye

1984
The World According to Garp

as Mrs. Fields

1982
Still of the Night

as Grace Rice

1982
O'Hara, U.S. Treasury

as Genevieve

1971
The Birds

as Lydia Brenner

1963
Star Stage

as

1955
Producers' Showcase

as Agnes

1954
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

as Frau Lucie Marie Rommel

1951
September Affair

as Catherine Lawrence

1950
Actors Studio

as Miss Lucretia Collins

1948
A Woman's Vengeance

as Janet Spence

1948
Forever Amber

as Nan Britton

1947
Dragonwyck

as Peggy O'Malley

1946
The Valley of Decision

as Louise Kane

1945
The Seventh Cross

as Liesel Roeder

1944
Jessica Tandy Jessica Tandy

Birthday

1909-06-07

Place of Birth

London, England

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Tandy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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