Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy was a British-born American actress who won numerous awards for film, television, and the stage, and had a career that spanned sixty-five years.

She holds the record as the Oldest Oscar Winner for winning a standard competitive Oscar at age 81 for her performance in Driving Miss Daisy.

Fast Facts

1. Born: June 7, 1909
2. Died: September 11, 1994 (Ovarian cancer)
3. Birthplace: London, England
4. First husband: Jack Hawkins
5. Second husband: Hume Cronyn
6. Has three children
7. 1990: Chosen by People Magazine as one of 50 Most Beautiful People in the world
8. Last Film: Nobody's Fool in 1994 with Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Philip Seymour Hoffman

Broadway Lights

She won three Tony Awards for her work in the stage productions of A Streetcar Named Desire, The Gin Game, and The Glass Menagerie.

Notable Films

1. 1944: The Seventh Cross
2. 1951: The Desert Fox
3. 1962: Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
4. 1963: The Birds
5. 1982: the World According to Garp
6. 1985: Cocoon
7. 1989: Driving Miss Daisy
8. 1991: Fried Green Tomatoes
9. 1992: Used People
10. 1994: Nobody's Fool

Quotes

1. (Joking about her husband, Hume Cronyn): "When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street, I always hope it's the street."
2. "I must say, if I had known at the beginning of my life that this is where I would get to, I would have said, 'Not possible. Not possible'."
3. "I'm most comfortable on the stage."

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