Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy was an English-American stage and film actress. She first appeared on the London stage in 1926 at the age of 16, playing, among other roles, Katherine opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V, and Cordelia opposite John Gielgud's King Lear. She also worked in British films. Following the end of her marriage to the British actor Jack Hawkins, 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 as Blanche Dubois in the original Broadway... production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948, sharing the prize with Katherine Cornell and Judith Anderson . Over the following three decades, her career continued sporadically and included a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, The Birds , and a Tony Award-winning performance in The Gin Game . Along with Cronyn, she was a member of the original acting company of the Guthrie Theater.
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| Birthdate: | June 7, 1909 |
| Birthplace: | London |
| Date of death: | September 11, 1994 |
| Height: | 5' 4" |
| Also known as: | Jessie Alice Tandy, jessica_tandy, Jessica Tandy |