Jessica Tandy, christened Jessie Alice Tandy (June 7, 1909 – September 11 1994) was a noted Academy Award-winning British-American theatre, film and TV actress.

Personal life

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Tandy was born in London and she was educated at the Dame Alice Owen's School in Islington. She was married twice:

• 1) The British actor Jack Hawkins (1932-1942); one daughter Susan Hawkins (born 1934)
• 2) 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 fifty Most Beautiful People in the world in 1990. Later the same year she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, which she battled fiercely for five years, during which time she continued to work. She had also been treated for angina and glaucoma previously.

Career

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After an acting career spanning some sixty five years, Tandy found latter-day movie stardom in major-studio releases and intimate dramas alike. From a young age she was determined to be an actress, and first appeared on the London stage in 1926, playing, among others, 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 first marriage, she moved to New York and met Canadian actor Hume Cronyn, who became her second husband and frequent partner on stage and screen. She made her American film debut in The Seventh Cross (1944). She also appeared in The Valley of Decision (1945), The Green Years (1946, as Cronyn's daughter!), and Forever Amber (1947). After her Tony-winning performance as Blanche DuBois in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, she concentrated on the stage and only appeared sporadically in films such as The Light in the Forest (1957) and The Birds (1963).

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