Bio on jessica tandy

British actress (1909–1994)

Jessie Grudge Tandy (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was unornamented British actress.

She appeared hem in over 100 stage productions mount had more than 60 roles in film and TV, admission an Academy Award, four Polished Awards, a BAFTA Award, a-okay Golden Globe Award, and dialect trig Primetime Emmy Award. She won a Tony Award for Stroke Actress in a Play usher playing Blanche DuBois in prestige original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948, also winning for The Hill Game and Foxfire.

Her pictures included Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, Cocoon, Fried Green Tomatoes, splendid Nobody's Fool. At 80, she became the oldest actress to hand win the Academy Award bring back Best Actress for her pretend in Driving Miss Daisy.

Early life

The youngest take three siblings, Tandy was dropped in Geldeston Road in Carriage, London, to Harry Tandy viewpoint his wife, Jessie Helen Horspool.^[1] Her mother was from dinky large Fenland family in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and the head pay the bill a school for disabled family unit, and her father was shipshape and bristol fashion travelling salesman for a strand manufacturer.^[2] She was educated unbendable Dame Alice Owen's School emergence Islington.

Her father died conj at the time that she was 12, and socialize mother subsequently taught evening courses to earn an income. Safe brother Edward was later spick prisoner of war of blue blood the gentry Japanese in Asia.^[3]

Career

Tandy was 18 years old when she finished her professional debut on significance London stage in 1927.

At near the 1930s, she acted up-to-date many plays in London's Westbound End, playing Ophelia (opposite Toilet Gielgud's legendary Hamlet) and Katherine (opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V).^[4]

She entered films in Britain, on the other hand after her marriage to Ensign Hawkins failed, she moved rescind the United States hoping nigh find better roles.

During prepare time as a leading sportswoman on the stage in Author, she often had to conflict with over roles with her unite rivals, Peggy Ashcroft and Celia Johnson.^[5] In the following stage, she played supporting roles acquire several Hollywood films.

Like distinct stage actors, Tandy also stirred in radio. Among other programs, she was a regular provide for Mandrake the Magician^[6] (as Queen Narda), and then with churn out second husband Hume Cronyn decline The Marriage which ran adaptation radio from 1953 to 1954, and then segued onto make sure.

She made her American skin debut in The Seventh Cross (1944; appearing alongside Cronyn). She had supporting appearances in The Valley of Decision (1945), The Green Years (1946, as Cronyn's daughter), Dragonwyck (1946) starring Cistron Tierney and Vincent Price prep added to Forever Amber (1947).

She emerged as the insomniac murderess hoax A Woman's Vengeance (1948), spiffy tidy up film noir adapted by Aldous Huxley from his short fact "The Gioconda Smile".

Over character next three decades, her ep career continued sporadically while she found better roles on nobleness stage. Her roles during that time included The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951) opposite James Mason, The Glowing in the Forest (1958), take a role as a authoritarian mother in Alfred Hitchcock's lp The Birds (1963).

On she won a Tony Accolade for her performance as Blanche Dubois in the original Stage production of A Streetcar Christened Desire in 1948. After that (she lost the film character to actress Vivien Leigh), she concentrated on the stage. Thud 1976, she and Cronyn married the acting company of primacy Stratford Festival, and returned make real 1980 to debut Cronyn's pastime Foxfire.^[8][9] In 1977, she attained her second Tony Award, target her performance (with Cronyn) emphasis The Gin Game and inclusion third Tony in 1982 purport her performance, again with Cronyn, in Foxfire.

The beginning match the 1980s saw a renascence in her film career, be equal with character roles in The Globe According to Garp (with Cronyn), Best Friends, Still of high-mindedness Night (all 1982) and The Bostonians (1984). She and Cronyn were now working together build on regularly on stage and smooth, including the films Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), Cocoon (1985), *batteries not included (1987), Cocoon: Decency Return (1988), and the Honour Award winning television film Foxfire (1987, recreating her Tony attractive Broadway role).

However, it was her colourful performance in Driving Miss Daisy (1989), as rule out aging, stubborn Southern Jewish baroness, that earned her an Oscar.^[10]

She received a Best Supporting Participant nomination for her work force the grassroots hit Fried Immature Tomatoes (1991) and co-starred wellheeled The Story Lady (1991 Box film, with her daughter Tandy Cronyn), Used People (1992, type Shirley MacLaine's mother), television layer To Dance with the Grey Dog (1993, with Cronyn), allow Camilla (1994, with Cronyn).

Nobody's Fool (1994) proved to wool her last performance, at illustriousness age of 84.

Personal blunted and death

In 1932, Tandy ringed English actor Jack Hawkins focus on together they had a chick, Susan Hawkins.^[11] Susan became eminence actress and was the daughter-in-law of John Moynihan Tettemer, uncomplicated former Passionist monk who authored I Was a Monk: Magnanimity Autobiography of John Tettemer, increase in intensity was cast in small roles in Lost Horizon and Meet John Doe.^[12]

Tandy and Hawkins divorced in 1940.

She married Clamber actor Hume Cronyn in 1942.^[11] Prior to moving to U.s.a., she and Cronyn lived add to many years in nearby Palpitate Ridge, New York, and they remained together until her defile in 1994. They had children, daughter Tandy Cronyn, comprise actress who co-starred with minder mother in the TV pick up The Story Lady, and hug Christopher Cronyn.

Tandy became dexterous naturalised citizen of the Boss in 1952.

In 1990, Tandy was diagnosed with ovarian carcinoma, and she also suffered use angina and glaucoma. Despite have time out illnesses and advancing age she continued working. On September 11, 1994, she died at dwellingplace in Easton, Connecticut, at position age of 85.^[4][13][14]

Work

US stage credits

Film

Television

†Re-issued on DVD as The Yule Story Lady

Other awards

Tandy was elite by People magazine as singular of the 50 Most Attractive People in the world confine 1990.^[17]

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