Personal Info
Known Credits
41
Gender
Female
Birthdate
1909-06-07 (116 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
London, England
Also Known For
Jessica Alice Tandy
Jessica Tandy
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 ...
Known For
Acting
2006 --
A Streetcar on Broadway
| Self (archive footage)
2003 --
Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen
| Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003 --
Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
| Self (archive footage)
1994 --
Nobody's Fool
| Beryl Peoples
1994 --
Camilla
| Camilla Cara
1993 --
To Dance with the White Dog
| Cora Peek
1992 --
Used People
| Freida
1991 --
Fried Green Tomatoes
| Ninny Threadgoode
1991 --
The Story Lady
| Grace McQueen
1990 --
Night of 100 Stars III
| Self
1989 --
Driving Miss Daisy
| Daisy Werthan
1988 --
Cocoon: The Return
| Alma Finley
1988 --
The House on Carroll Street
| Miss Venable
1987 --
*batteries not included
| Faye Riley
1987 --
Foxfire
| Annie Nations
1985 --
Cocoon
| Alma Finley
1984 --
The Bostonians
| Miss Birdseye
1982 --
Best Friends
| Eleanor McCullen
1982 --
Still of the Night
| Grace Rice
1982 --
The World According to Garp
| Mrs. Fields
1981 --
Honky Tonk Freeway
| Carol
1981 --
The Gin Game
| Fonsia Dorsey
1974 --
Butley
| Edna Shaft
1973 --
Tennessee Williams' South
|
1963 --
The Birds
| Lydia Brenner
1962 --
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
| Mrs. Helen Adams
1959 --
The Moon and Sixpence
| Blanche Stroeve
1958 --
The Christmas Tree
| Mrs. Martin
1958 --
The Light in the Forest
| Myra Butler
1955 --
The Fourposter
|
1951 --
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
| Frau Lucie Marie Rommel
1950 --
September Affair
| Catherine Lawrence
1948 --
A Woman's Vengeance
| Janet Spence
1947 --
Forever Amber
| Nan Britton
1946 --
The Green Years
| Kate Leckie
1946 --
Dragonwyck
| Peggy O'Malley
1945 --
The Valley of Decision
| Louise Kane
1944 --
Blonde Fever
| Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
1944 --
The Seventh Cross
| Liesel Roeder
1938 --
Murder in the Family
| Ann Osborne
1932 --
Indiscretions of Eve
| Penelope, the Maid