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Jessica Alice Tandy (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was an English-American stage and film actress, who spent most of her 67-year career〔(New York Times 12 September 1994: ''Jessica Tandy, a Patrician Star Of Theater and Film, Dies at 85'' ) Retrieved 2012-06-12〕 in the United States. She appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV.〔〔(Internet Movie Database: Jessica Tandy Filmography ) Retrieved 2012-06-12〕 Born in London to a headmistress and a commercial traveller, she made her professional debut on the London stage in 1927, at the age of 18. During the 1930s, she appeared in a large number of plays in London's West End, playing roles such as Ophelia, opposite John Gielgud's legendary Hamlet, and Katherine, opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V.〔 In the 1930s, she also worked in a couple of British films. Following the end of her marriage to the British actor Jack Hawkins, she moved to New York in 1940, where she met Canadian actor Hume Cronyn. He became her second husband and frequent partner on stage and screen. She received the Tony Award for best performance by a Leading Actress in A Play for her performance as Blanche Dubois in the original Broadway production of ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' in 1948. Tandy shared the prize with Katharine Cornell (who won for the female lead in ''Antony and Cleopatra'') and Judith Anderson (for the latter's portrayal of Medea) in a three-way tie for the award. Over the following three decades, her career continued sporadically and included a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, ''The Birds'' (1963), and a Tony Award-winning performance in ''The Gin Game'' (1977, playing in the two-hander play opposite Hume Cronyn). Along with Cronyn, she was a member of the original acting company of the Guthrie Theater. In the mid-1980s she had a career revival. She appeared with Cronyn in the Broadway production of ''Foxfire'' in 1983 and its television adaptation four years later, winning both a Tony Award and an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Annie 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 and a Golden Globe, 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". She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1990, and continued working until shortly before her death. ==Early life== The youngest of three siblings, Tandy was born in Geldeston Road in Hackney, London.〔(Jessica Tandy's family to unveil plaque to commemorate star's Hackney birthplace 19 November 1998 ) accessed 10 May 2007〕 Her mother, Jessie Helen (''née'' Horspool), was the head of a school for mentally handicapped children, and her father, Harry Tandy, was a travelling salesman for a rope manufacturer.〔(The Academy Awards: A Look At Jessica Tandy )〕 Her father died when Tandy was 12, and her mother subsequently taught evening courses to earn an income. Her brother Edward was later a prisoner of war of the Japanese in the Far East.〔Kelly, Terence ''Living with Japanese'' Kellan Press 1977 p.136 ISBN 0953019306 with photo〕 Tandy was educated at Dame Alice Owen's School in Islington. Her birth name was Jessie Alice Tandy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jessica Tandy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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