Jessica Tandy

Jesse alice "jessica" Тэнди (7 de junio de 1909 – 11 de septiembre de 1994) was an English American stage and film la actriz. She appeared first on the London stage in 1926 at the age of 16, playing, among others, catherine contrario lawrence Оливье's henry V, y Корделия contrario de 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 segunda husband and frequent partner on stage and screen. She won the Tony Award for her performance, como Blanche dubois in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar, Named Desire in 1948, sharing the prize with katherine cornell (who won for Antony and Cleopatra) y judith Anderson (for the latter s representación de la of Medea). Over the following three decades, her career continued sporadically and included a substantial role in alfred Хичкок's de la película The Birds (1963), and a Tony Award-winning performance in The Gin Game playing in the two-character play opposite her husband, Cronyn) en 1977. Ella, along with Cronyn was a member of the original acting company of The Guthrie Theater. In the mid 1980 s she enjoyed a career renacimiento. She appeared contrario de Hume Cronyn in the production of Broadway Foxfire in 1983 and its television adaptation four years later, la victoria both a Tony Award and an Emmy Award for her representación de la of annie unidas. Durante these years, she appeared in films tales como Cocoon (1985), also with Cronyn. She became the oldest la actriz to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Driving Miss Daisy (1989), for which she also won a los BAFTA y un globo de Oro, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). At the height of her success, she was named as one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People". Ella le diagnostican with ovarian cancer in 1990, and continued working hasta poco antes de su muerte.