Jessica Tandy

Actor

Born: June 7, 1909
Died: September 11, 1994 (age 85)
From: London, England

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…

Filmography (43)

A Streetcar on Broadway (2006)
Self (archive footage)
Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen (2003)
Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star (2003)
Self (archive footage)
Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes (1998)
Self
An African love story
An African love story (1996)
Self
Nobody's Fool (1994)
Beryl Peoples
Camilla (1994)
Camilla Cara
To Dance with the White Dog (1993)
Cora Peek
Used People (1992)
Freida
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Ninny Threadgoode
The Story Lady (1991)
Grace McQueen
Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
Self
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Daisy Werthan
Cocoon: The Return (1988)
Alma Finley
The House on Carroll Street (1988)
Miss Venable
*batteries not included (1987)
Faye Riley
Foxfire (1987)
Annie Nations
Cocoon (1985)
Alma Finley
The Bostonians (1984)
Miss Birdseye
Best Friends (1982)
Eleanor McCullen
Still of the Night (1982)
Grace Rice
The World According to Garp (1982)
Mrs. Fields
Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
Carol
The Gin Game (1981)
Fonsia Dorsey
Butley (1974)
Edna Shaft
Tennessee Williams' South (1973)
The Birds (1963)
Lydia Brenner
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
Mrs. Helen Adams
The Moon and Sixpence (1959)
Blanche Stroeve
The Christmas Tree
The Christmas Tree (1958)
Mrs. Martin