Jessica Tandy
Jessica Alice Tandy (born June 7, 1909 in London , England , † September 11, 1994 in Easton , Connecticut ) was a British actress . She received an Oscar in 1990 for her title role in Miss Daisy and Her Chauffeur .
Life
Jessica Tandy made her first stage appearance in London in 1927, and shortly thereafter made her film debut in The Indiscretion of Eve . In 1930 she appeared on Broadway . After her failed marriage to actor Jack Hawkins , which resulted in a daughter and divorced in 1942, she moved to New York , where she met and married actor Hume Cronyn . There were two children from this marriage.
In 1947 Tandy received her first of a total of three Tony Awards for the world premiere of Endstation Sehnsucht , but was replaced by Vivien Leigh when Elia Kazan was made into a film , as the producers thought she was the bigger star. In the Broadway production she played the Blanche on the side of Marlon Brando , who achieved the breakthrough. In 1954, Tandy and her husband got their own series, The Marriage . In 1986 the couple was awarded the National Medal of Arts by the US President .
Tandy's best-known roles were that of the imperious mother Lydia Brenner in Alfred Hitchcock's Die Vögel and that of Miss Daisy in Bruce Beresford's Miss Daisy and Her Chauffeur , for which she won an Oscar in 1990 as the oldest actress to this day in the category of best leading actress . Two years later, at the age of 82, she was nominated again for an Oscar for portraying Ninny Threadgoode in Green Tomatoes and was also voted one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world by People Magazine .
On September 11, 1994, Jessica Tandy died of protracted cancer (ovarian cancer) in Connecticut . The film Nobody's Fool - Irresistible in the long run , in which she can be seen in her last appearance alongside Paul Newman , is dedicated to her memory.
Filmography
- 1932: The Indiscretions of Eve
- 1938: Murder In The Family
- 1944: The Seventh Cross (The Seventh Cross)
- 1945: The decision (The Valley of Decision)
- 1946: The Legacy (The Green Years)
- 1946: White Oleander (Dragonwyck)
- 1947: Amber, the great courtesan (Forever Amber)
- 1948: Torment of Love (A Woman's Vengeance)
- 1950: Love rush on Capri (September Affair)
- 1951: Rommel, der Wüstenfuchs (The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel)
- 1958: The Light in the Forest
- 1962: Hemingway 's Adventures of a Young Man
- 1963: The Birds (The Birds)
- 1974: Butley
- 1981: The whole freeway is upside down (Honky Tonk Freeway)
- 1982: Garp and how he saw the world (The World according to Garp)
- 1982: Two Big Friends (Best Friends)
- 1982: Still of the Night (Still of the Night)
- 1984: The Bostonians (The Bostonians)
- 1985: Cocoon
- 1987: Long Farewell (Foxfire)
- 1987: The Miracle on 8th Street (Batteries not included)
- 1988: The House on Carroll Street (The House on Carroll Street)
- 1988: Cocoon II (Cocoon: The Return)
- 1989: Miss Daisy and her chauffeur (Driving Miss Daisy)
- 1991: Green tomatoes (Fried Green Tomatoes)
- 1992: Die Herbstzeitlosen (Used People)
- 1994: Camilla
- 1994: Nobody's Fool - Irresistible in the long run (Nobody's Fool)
Web links
- Jessica Tandy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tandy, Jessica |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tandy, Jessica Alice (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England, UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1994 |
| Place of death | Easton , Connecticut , United States |