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Jessica Tandy (June 7, 1909 – September 11,
1994) was a United Kingdom|British-American
actor|actress who was born in London, United
Kingdom|London. She is the mother of actress Tandy
Cronyn, and was chosen by People (magazine)|People
magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in
the world in 1990. Later the same year, she was
diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Jessica won a Tony
Award in 1982 for Foxfire, in 1978 for The Gin
Game, and in 1948 for A Streetcar Named Desire. 

After an acting career spanning some 65 years,
Tandy found latter-day movie stardom in
major-studio releases and intimate dramas alike.
From a young age she was determined to be an
actress, and first appeared on the London stage in
1927, 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 her first marriage to
actor Jack Hawkins, she moved to New York and met
actor Hume Cronyn, who became her second husband
and frequent partner on stage and screen. She made
her American film debut in The Seventh Cross
(1944), and appeared in The Valley of Decision
(1945), The Green Years (1946, as Cronyn's
daughter!), and Forever Amber (1947). After her
Tony-winning performance as Blanche DuBois in the
original Broadway theatre|Broadway production of
Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, she
concentrated on the stage and only appeared
sporadically in films such as The Light in the
Forest (1957) and The Birds (film)|The Birds
(1963).

The beginning of the 1980s saw a resurgence in her
film career, with character roles in The World
According to Garp, Best Friends, Still of the
Night (all 1982) and The Bostonians (1984), and
the hit film Cocoon (movie)|Cocoon (1985),
opposite Cronyn, with whom she reteamed for
*Batteries not included (1987) and Cocoon: The
Return (1988). She and Cronyn had been working
together more and more, on stage and television,
to continued acclaim, notably in 1987's Foxfire
(play)|Foxfire which won her an Emmy Award
(recreating her Tony-winning Broadway role). 
However, it was her colorful performance in
Driving Miss Daisy (1989), as an aging, stubborn
U.S. Southern States|Southern matron, that made
her a bonafide Hollywood star and earned her an
Academy Award for Best Actress|Academy Award. She
subsequently earned a Best Supporting Actress
nomination for her work in the grass-roots hit
Fried Green Tomatoes (1992), and co-starred in The
Story Lady (1991 telefilm, with daughter Tandy
Cronyn), Used People (1992, as Shirley MacLaine's
Jewish mother), To Dance With the White Dog (1993
telefilm, with Cronyn), Nobody's Fool (1994), and
Camilla (also 1994, with Cronyn).  Camilla was to
be her last performance, and it was bold in one
way that she, at the age of about 85, had a brief
nude scene.

She died in Easton, Connecticut, of ovarian
cancer.

==Filmography==
*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)

== External links ==
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