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Jessica Tandy - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Born 7 June 1909 - English actress.
Tandy's father died when she was 12 years old, and her mother had to give extra evening classes at school to be able to support the children.
Jessica Tandy began her acting career at the age of sixteen on the stage of London, and soon she performed on the famous stages of the British capital in the company of Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud. In 1932, she made her film debut, and in the same year she married actor Jack Hawkins. After divorcing in 1940, Tandy moved to the United States, where two years later she married Hume Cronin. Her American film debut took place in 1944 in The Seventh Cross, followed by roles in Valley of Resolve (1945), Green Years (1946), Dragonwick (1946) and Amber Forever (1947) .
In the United States, Jessica Tandy gained great recognition for her work on Broadway, where she shone from the 1930s to 1989. During this time, the actress became the winner of the Tony Award three times, as well as the winner of the Drama Desk Theater Awards and the Sarah Siddons Award. In the 1950s and 1970s, Jessica Tandy rarely appeared in films, playing mainly roles on television and in the theater. Among her film roles of that time, the most famous was Lydia Brenner in the Hitchcock thriller "Birds" (1963) .
A new stage in her film career was the 1980s, bringing her first popularity with the films "The World According to Garp" and "Best Friends" in 1982. Tandy's next successful role was nursing home resident Alma Finley in Ron Howard's science fiction film Cocoon (1985). In this picture, the actress appeared in the company of her husband Hume Cronin, with whom she co-starred in the films Batteries Not Supplied (1987) and Cocoon: The Return (1988) over the next two years. Her popularity peaked in 1989, when the eighty-year-old actress won the Oscar for Best Actress in the drama Chauffeur Miss Daisy. A year later, People magazine included Tandy in the list of fifty most beautiful people in the world.
In 1990, the actress was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, but despite this, in the following years she continued to actively act in films, receiving in 1992 a second Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress in the comedy drama Fried Green Tomatoes. The actress played her last role in 1994 in the film No Fools by Robert Benton, and in September of the same year she died at her home in Easton, Connecticut.
