Jessica Tandy - Фильмы

Джесси Элис "Джессика" Тэнди (June 7 1909 – September 11 1994) was an English - American stage and film actress. She first appeared on the London stage in 1926 at the age of 16, playing, among others, Кэтрин противоположность Лоуренса Оливье's Генри V, и Корделия противоположность Джон Гилгуд s King Lear. She also worked in British films. Following the end of her marriage to Джек Хокинс, 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, как Бланш Дюбуа in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948, sharing the prize with Кэтрин Корнелл (who won for Antony and Cleopatra) и Джудит Андерсон (for the latter s portrayal of Medea). Over the following three decades, her career continued sporadically and included a substantial role in Альфред Хичкок's фильм 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. Она, along with Cronyn was a member of the original acting company of The Guthrie Theater. In the mid 1980s she enjoyed a career возрождения. She appeared противоположность Hume Cronyn in the Broadway production of Foxfire in 1983 and its television adaptation four years later, победа both a Tony Award and an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Энни Nations. During these years, she appeared in films such as Cocoon (1985), also with Cronyn. She became the oldest actress to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Driving Miss Daisy (1989), for which she also won a BAFTA и Золотой Глобус, 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". Она вас диагностированы with ovarian cancer in 1990, and continued working until shortly before her death.