Jessica Tandy
Biografia
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.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
A Streetcar on Broadway
Film • 2006
jako Self (archive footage)
James Dean: Forever Young
Film • 2005
jako Self (archive footage)
Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
Film • 2003
jako Self (archive footage)
Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen
Film • 2003
jako Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
Film • 1998
jako Self
An African love story
Film • 1996
jako Self
Naiwniak
Film • 1994
jako Beryl Peoples
Camilla
Film • 1994
jako Camilla Cara
To Dance with the White Dog
Film • 1993
jako Cora Peek
Intimate Portrait
Serial • 1993
jako Self
Used People
Film • 1992
jako Freida
Smażone Zielone Pomidory
Film • 1991
jako Ninny Threadgoode
The Story Lady
Film • 1991
jako Grace McQueen
Dream On
Serial • 1990
jako (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars III
Film • 1990
jako Self
Wożąc panią Daisy
Film • 1989
jako Daisy Werthan
Kokon: Powrót
Film • 1988
jako Alma Finley
Dom przy Carroll Street
Film • 1988
jako Miss Venable
Bez baterii nie działa
Film • 1987
jako Faye Riley
Foxfire
Film • 1987
jako Annie Nations
Kokon
Film • 1985
jako Alma Finley
The Bostonians
Film • 1984
jako Miss Birdseye
Best Friends
Film • 1982
jako Eleanor McCullen
W nocnej ciszy
Film • 1982
jako Grace Rice
Świat według Garpa
Film • 1982
jako Mrs. Fields
American Playhouse
Serial • 1982
jako Fonsia Dorsey
Honky Tonk Freeway
Film • 1981
jako Carol
The Gin Game
Film • 1981
jako Fonsia Dorsey
The Kennedy Center Honors
Serial • 1978
jako Self
Butley
Film • 1974
jako Edna Shaft
Tennessee Williams' South
Film • 1973
Film '72
Serial • 1971
jako Self
Judd, for the Defense
Serial • 1967
The F.B.I.
Serial • 1965
jako Ardyth Nolan
Ptaki
Film • 1963
jako Lydia Brenner
The Merv Griffin Show
Serial • 1962
jako Self
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Film • 1962
jako Mrs. Helen Adams
The Moon and Sixpence
Film • 1959
jako Blanche Stroeve
The Christmas Tree
Film • 1958
jako Mrs. Martin
Światło w lesie
Film • 1958
jako Myra Butler
Suspicion
Serial • 1957
Telephone Time
Serial • 1956
Tony Awards
Serial • 1956
jako Self - Award Accepter
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Serial • 1955
jako Edwina Freel
The Fourposter
Film • 1955
Producers' Showcase
Serial • 1954
jako Agnes
The Marriage
Serial • 1954
jako Liz Marriott
General Electric Theater
Serial • 1953
jako Laura Whitemore
Omnibus
Serial • 1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Serial • 1951
jako Mrs. Martin
Pustynny Lis
Film • 1951
jako Frau Lucie Marie Rommel
Goodyear Television Playhouse
Serial • 1951
jako Leticia Blacklock
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Serial • 1951
jako Cora Torrence
September Affair
Film • 1950
jako Catherine Lawrence
Prudential Family Playhouse
Serial • 1950
Lights Out
Serial • 1949
Studio One
Serial • 1948
jako Connaught O'Brien
The Philco Television Playhouse
Serial • 1948
jako Liz Marriott
The Ed Sullivan Show
Serial • 1948
jako Self
A Woman's Vengeance
Film • 1948
jako Janet Spence
Forever Amber
Film • 1947
jako Nan Britton
The Green Years
Film • 1946
jako Kate Leckie
Dragonwyck
Film • 1946
jako Peggy O'Malley
The Valley of Decision
Film • 1945
jako Louise Kane
Blonde Fever
Film • 1944
jako Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Siódmy krzyż
Film • 1944
jako Liesel Roeder
Golden Globe Awards
Serial • 1944
jako Self - Nominee
Murder in the Family
Film • 1938
jako Ann Osborne
Indiscretions of Eve
Film • 1932
jako Penelope, the Maid