1. Jessica Tandy won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for playing Blanche DuBois in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948, winning for The Gin Game and Foxfire.
16 Facts About Jessica Tandy
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Jessica Tandy's films included The Birds, Cocoon, Fried Green Tomatoes, and Nobody's Fool.
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The youngest of three siblings, Jessica Tandy was born in Geldeston Road in Hackney, London, to Harry Jessica Tandy and his wife, Jessie Helen Horspool.
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Jessica Tandy's mother was from a large Fenland family in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and the head of a school for disabled children, and her father was a travelling salesman for a rope manufacturer.
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Jessica Tandy was educated at Dame Alice Owen's School in Islington.
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Jessica Tandy's father died when she was 12, and her mother subsequently taught evening courses to earn an income.
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Jessica Tandy was 18 years old when she made her professional debut on the London stage in 1927.
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Jessica Tandy entered films in Britain, but after her marriage to Jack Hawkins failed, she moved to the United States hoping to find better roles.
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Jessica Tandy made her American film debut in The Seventh Cross.
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Jessica Tandy had supporting appearances in The Valley of Decision, The Green Years, Dragonwyck starring Gene Tierney and Vincent Price and Forever Amber.
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Jessica Tandy appeared as the insomniac murderess in A Woman's Vengeance, a film noir adapted by Aldous Huxley from his short story "The Gioconda Smile".
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Jessica Tandy received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her work in the grassroots hit Fried Green Tomatoes and co-starred in The Story Lady, Used People, television film To Dance with the White Dog, and Camilla.
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In 1932, Jessica Tandy married English actor Jack Hawkins and together they had a daughter, Susan Hawkins.
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Jessica Tandy became a naturalised citizen of the US in 1952.
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In 1990, Jessica Tandy was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and she suffered from angina and glaucoma.
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Jessica Tandy was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1990.