Jessica Tandy

Jesse Alice Jessica Tandy (June 7 1909 – September 11 1994) was an English - American stage and film actrice. She appeared first on the London stage in 1926 at the age of 16, playing, among others, Catherine opposition Laurence Оливье's Henry V, et Cordelia le contraire 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 second husband and frequent partner on stage and screen. She won the Tony Award for her performance, comme 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) et Judith Anderson (for the latter s portrayal of Medea). Over the following three decades, her career continued sporadically and included a substantial role in Alfred Хичкок's film The Birds (1963), and a Tony Award-winning performance in The Gin Game (playing in the two-character-play opposite her husband, Cronyn) in 1977. Elle, along with Cronyn was a member of the original acting company of The Guthrie Theater. In the mid des années 1980 she enjoyed a career de la renaissance. She appeared l'opposé de Hume Cronyn in the Broadway de la production de Foxfire in 1983 and its television adaptation four years later, la victoire both a un Tony Award et un Emmy Award for her portrayal of Annie Nations. During these years, she appeared in films tels que Cocoon (1985), also with Cronyn. She became the oldest actrice to receive the Academy Award for Best Actrice for her role in Driving Miss Daisy (1989), for which she also won a un BAFTA et un Golden Globe, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actrice for Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). At the height of her success, she was named as one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People". Elle vous diagnostiquées avec ovarian cancer in 1990, and continued working jusqu'à peu de temps before her death.