Jessica Tandy was born June 7 1909 in London, England.

In 1927 she completed her first stage appearance in London, shortly after she made her debut in film in The Indiscretion of Eve. 1930 she appeared on the Broadway. After the failed marriage to actor Jack Hawkins, which created a subsidiary, and from whom she divorced in 1942, she moved to New York where met her the actor Hume Cronyn and married. From this marriage had two children.

In 1947 she received her first of three Tony Awards for the world premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire, has been replaced in the film adaptation of Elia Kazan, however, by Vivien Leigh, as the producers kept this for the larger star. In the Broadway she played Blanche on the side of Marlon Brando, who succeeded in order to break even. In 1954, she was with her husband, a new series, The Marriage. 1986 the couple from the U.S. President was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

Her two most famous roles were those of the domineering mother, Lydia Brenner in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and the Miss Daisy in Bruce Beresford's Miss Daisy, for which she won in 1990 also an Oscar as the oldest performer in the category still best actress. Two years later, she was nominated as a 82-year-old to represent the Ninny thread Goode at Fried Green Tomatoes once again for an Academy Award and was also from People magazine with selected among the 50 most beautiful people in the world.

On 11 Jessica Tandy died September 1994 in Connecticut, following a lengthy cancer. Her last film Nobody's Fool - irresistible in the long run, in which she was seen alongside Paul Newman, was dedicated to her memory.
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