Jessica Tandy

Jesse Elis "Jessica" Tandy (June 7 1909 – September 11 1994) was an English - American stage and film actress.

She first appeared on the London stage 1926 in at the age of 16, playing, among others, Catherine Gegensatz Lawrence Оливье's Henry V, und Cordelia Gegensatz zu 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 performance her, als Blanche Dubois in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948, sharing the prize with Katharine Cornell (who won for Antony and Cleopatra) und 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 Хичкок'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. Sie along with Cronyn was a member of the original acting company of The Guthrie Theater.

In the mid 1980s she enjoyed a career Renaissance. She appeared Gegensatz zu Hume Cronyn in the Broadway production of Foxfire in 1983 and its television adaptation four years later, Sieg 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 to receive the actress Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Driving Miss Daisy (1989), for which she also won a BAFTA und Golden Globe, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). At the height of her success, to be named as one of People ' s "50 Most Beautiful People". Es wird Sie bestimmt with ovarian cancer in 1990, and continued working until shortly before her death.