Cast & creator
Jessica Tandy
Best known for The Merv Griffin Show, Golden Globe Awards, American Playhouse
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.
Also known as: Jessica Alice Tandy, جسیکا تندی
44
film credits
39
television credits
83
1932–2006 · acting roles
6.8
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (83)
Showing 83 of 83 credits
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
American Playhouse
Fonsia Dorsey
1982
Tony Awards
Self - Award Accepter
1956Tony Awards
Self - Winner
1956Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956Tony Awards
Self (archive footage)
1956Tony Awards
Self - Nominee / Performer
1956Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
1956
Intimate Portrait
Self
1993
Studio One
Connaught O'Brien
1948Studio One
Mrs. Moore
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
Liz Marriott
1948
The F.B.I.
Ardyth Nolan
1965
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948Film '72
Self
1971
Omnibus
1952Omnibus
Self - Reader
1952Omnibus
Louisa Catherine Johnson
1952Omnibus
Jackie
1952
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Edwina Freel
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Julia Lester
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Laura Bowlby
1955
Judd, for the Defense
1967Judd, for the Defense
Helen Wister
1967
Dream On
(archive footage)
1990
Lights Out
1949
Telephone Time
1956
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
1978
Suspicion
1957
Goodyear Television Playhouse
Leticia Blacklock
1951
The Birds
Lydia Brenner
1963
Fried Green Tomatoes
Ninny Threadgoode
1991Producers' Showcase
Agnes
1954
Driving Miss Daisy
Daisy Werthan
1989
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Mrs. Martin
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
Annie Nations
1951
*batteries not included
Faye Riley
1987
General Electric Theater
Laura Whitemore
1953
Cocoon
Alma Finley
1985
Cocoon: The Return
Alma Finley
1988
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Cora Torrence
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Bertha Jacks
1951
Nobody's Fool
Beryl Peoples
1994
The Valley of Decision
Louise Kane
1945
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Frau Lucie Marie Rommel
1951
The World According to Garp
Mrs. Fields
1982
Still of the Night
Grace Rice
1982
Forever Amber
Nan Britton
1947
Dragonwyck
Peggy O'Malley
1946
The House on Carroll Street
Miss Venable
1988
James Dean: Forever Young
Self (archive footage)
2005
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
1990
The Seventh Cross
Liesel Roeder
1944
Used People
Freida
1992
Honky Tonk Freeway
Carol
1981
Best Friends
Eleanor McCullen
1982
The Story Lady
Grace McQueen
1991
The Light in the Forest
Myra Butler
1958
A Woman's Vengeance
Janet Spence
1948Prudential Family Playhouse
1950
Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
Self
1998
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Mrs. Helen Adams
1962
To Dance with the White Dog
Cora Peek
1993
September Affair
Catherine Lawrence
1950
The Bostonians
Miss Birdseye
1984
The Green Years
Kate Leckie
1946
A Streetcar on Broadway
Self (archive footage)
2006Murder in the Family
Ann Osborne
1938The Marriage
Liz Marriott
1954
Camilla
Camilla Cara
1994
The Moon and Sixpence
Blanche Stroeve
1959
Tennessee Williams' South
1973An African love story
Self
1996
Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen
Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003
Butley
Edna Shaft
1974
The Gin Game
Fonsia Dorsey
1981
Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
Self (archive footage)
2003The Christmas Tree
Mrs. Martin
1958
Blonde Fever
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
1944
Foxfire
Annie Nations
1987
The Fourposter
1955
Indiscretions of Eve
Penelope, the Maid
1932