Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy
Tandy, tahun 1950an
Lahir	Jessie Alice Tandy (1909-06-07)7 Juni 1909 Stoke Newington, London, Inggris
Meninggal	11 September 1994(1994-09-11) (umur 85) Easton, Connecticut, AS
Kewarganegaraan	Britania Raya Amerika Serikat (sejak 1952)
Pekerjaan	Aktris
Masa aktif	1927–1994
Pasangan menikah	Jack Hawkins ​ ​ (m. 1932;c. 1940)​ Hume Cronyn ​ (m. 1942)​
Anak	3

Jessie Alice Tandy (7 Juni 1909 – 11 September 1994) adalah seorang aktris Inggris. Dia muncul dalam lebih dari 100 produksi panggung dan memiliki lebih dari 60 peran dalam film dan TV, menerima penghargaan Academy Award, empat Tony Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, dan Primetime Emmy Award. Dia memenangkan Penghargaan Tony untuk Aktris Terbaik dalam sebuah Drama karena memerankan Blanche DuBois dalam produksi Broadway asli A Streetcar Named Desire pada tahun 1948, juga menang untuk The Gin Game dan Foxfire. Film-filmnya termasuk The Birds karya Alfred Hitchcock, Cocoon, Fried Green Tomatoes, dan Nobody's Fool. Pada usia 80 tahun, ia menjadi aktris tertua yang memenangkan Academy Award untuk Aktris Terbaik untuk perannya dalam Driving Miss Daisy.

Penghargaan

• Academy Award

• 1989 - Best Actress in a Leading Role, Driving Miss Daisy

• British Film Award

• 1989 - Best Actress, Driving Miss Daisy

• Emmy Award

• 1987 - Best Actress-Miniseries/Special, Foxfire

• Golden Globe

• 1989 - Best Actress, Driving Miss Daisy

• Sarah Siddons Award

• 1979 - Chicago theatre

• Tony Award

• 1994 - Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement shared with her husband, Hume Cronyn
• 1982 - Best Actress, Foxfire,
• 1978 - Best Actress (Play), The Gin Game
• 1948 - Best Actress (Dramatic), A Streetcar Named Desire

Didahului oleh: Ingrid Bergman for Joan of Lorraine & Helen Hayes for Happy Birthday	Tony Award - Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for A Streetcar Named Desire tied with Judith Anderson for Medea and Katharine Cornell for Antony and Cleopatra 1948	Diteruskan oleh: Martita Hunt for The Madwoman of Chaillot
Didahului oleh: Julie Harris for The Belle of Amherst	Tony Award - Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for The Gin Game 1978	Diteruskan oleh: Constance Cummings for Wings and Carole Shelley for The Elephant Man
Didahului oleh: Cloris Leachman	Sarah Siddons Award 1979	Diteruskan oleh: Claudette Colbert
Didahului oleh: Zoe Caldwell for Medea	Tony Award - Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for Foxfire 1982	Diteruskan oleh: Glenn Close for The Real Thing
Didahului oleh: Gena Rowlands for The Betty Ford Story	Emmy Award - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Foxfire 1988	Diteruskan oleh: Holly Hunter for Roe vs. Wade
Didahului oleh: Melanie Griffith for Working Girl	Golden Globe Award - Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Driving Miss Daisy 1989	Diteruskan oleh: Julia Roberts for Pretty Woman
Didahului oleh: Pauline Collins for Shirley Valentine	BAFTA Award - Best Actress for Driving Miss Daisy 1989	Diteruskan oleh: Jodie Foster for The Silence of the Lambs
Didahului oleh: Jodie Foster for The Accused	Academy Award - Best Actress for Driving Miss Daisy 1989	Diteruskan oleh: Kathy Bates for Misery

Selected Broadway credits

• Hilda Crane (1950)
• The Fourposter (1951)
• Five Finger Exercise (1959)
• A Delicate Balance (1966)
• The Gin Game (1977)
• Foxfire (1982)
• The Glass Menagerie (1983)

Filmografi

• The Indiscretions of Eve (1932)
• Murder in the Family (1938)
• The Seventh Cross (1944)
• Blonde Fever (1944)
• The Valley of Decision (1945)
• Dragonwyck (1946)
• The Green Years (1946)
• Forever Amber (1947)
• A Woman's Vengeance (1948)
• September Affair (1950)
• The Desert Fox (1951)
• The Light in the Forest (1958)
• Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
• The Birds (1963]])
• Butley (1976)
• Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
• The World According to Garp (1982)
• Still of the Night (1982)
• Best Friends (1982)
• The Bostonians (1984)
• Cocoon (1985)
• *batteries not included (1987)
• The House on Carroll Street (1988)
• Cocoon: The Return (1988)
• Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
• Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
• Used People (1992)
• A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
• Nobody's Fool (1994)
• Camilla (1994)

Pranala luar

• Jessica Tandy di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
• Movie Magazine International Tribute
• Jessica Tandy at IBDB
• NY Times September 12, 1994 Obituary