Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy, christened Jessie Alice Tandy (June 7, 1909 – 11 September 1994) was a noted British-American theatre, film and TV actress. Born in London, England, she was married to the Canadian-American actor, the late Hume Cronyn from 1942 until her death in 1994. She is the mother of actress Tandy Cronyn, as well as a son, Christopher Cronyn, and was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1990. Later the same year, in a cruel irony, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, which she battled fiercely for 5 years, during which time she continued to work. She had also been treated for angina and glaucoma previously.

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)
• ' (1988)
• Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
• Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
• Used People (1992)
• A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
• Nobody's Fool (1994)
• Camilla (1994)