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Jesse Alice "Jessica" Тэнди (June 7 1909 – September 11 1994) was an English - American stage and film actress. She appeared first on the London stage in 1926 at the age of 16, de jogar, among others, Catherine oposto Lawrence Оливье's Henry V, e Cordelia, o oposto de John Гилгуд s King Lear. She also trabalhado in British films. Following the end of her marriage to Jack Hawkins, she moved to New York, where she met Canadian actor Hume Cronyn. He became her segunda husband and frequent partner on stage and screen. She won the Tony Award for her performance, como Blanche Dubois in the original Broadway production of A um eléctrico Named Desire in 1948, sharing the prize with Catherine Cornell (who won for Antony and Cleopatra) e Judith Anderson (for the latter s portrayal of Medea). Over the following three decades, her career-estima sporadically and included a substantial role in Alfred Хичкок'filme The Birds (1963), e um Tony Award-winning performance in The Gin Game (playing in the two-character play opposite her husband, Cronyn) em 1977. Ela, along with Cronyn was a member of the original acting company of The Guthrie Theater. In the mid 1980s she enjoyed a career renascimento. She appeared o oposto de Hume Cronyn in the Broadway production of Foxfire in 1983 and its television adaptation four years later, a vitória both a Tony Award and an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Annie Nations. Durante a these years, she appeared in films tal como o Cocoon (1985), also with Cronyn. She became the oldest a actriz to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Driving Miss Daisy (1989), for which she also won a BAFTA e o Globo de Ouro, and was nomeado 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". Ela tem diagnosticados com ovarian cancer in 1990, and continued working até logo before her death.