Editing Jessica Tandy

{{Short description|British actress (1909–1994)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Jessica Tandy
| birth_name         = Jessie Alice Tandy
| image              = Jessica Tandy 1959.jpg
| caption            = Tandy in 1959
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1909|06|07|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington|Stoke Newington]], London, England
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1994|09|11|1909|06|07|df=y}}
| death_place        = [[Easton, Connecticut]], US
| resting_place      = 
| citizenship        = {{plainlist|
* United Kingdom
* United States (from 1952)
}}
| spouse             = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Jack Hawkins]]|1932|1940|end=div}}
* {{marriage|[[Hume Cronyn]]|1942}}
}}
| children           = 3
| occupation         = Actress
| education          = 
| years_active       = 1927–1994
}}

'''Jessie Alice Tandy''' (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was a British actress. An icon in the film industry, she appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV, receiving an [[Academy Award]], four [[Tony Awards]], a [[BAFTA Award]], a [[Golden Globe Award]], and a [[Primetime Emmy Award]]. She won a Tony Award for [[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play|Best Actress in a Play]] for playing [[Blanche DuBois]] in the original Broadway production of ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' in 1948, also winning for ''[[The Gin Game]]'' and ''[[Foxfire (play)|Foxfire]]''. Her films included ''[[The Birds (film)|The Birds]]'', ''[[Cocoon (film)|Cocoon]]'', ''[[Fried Green Tomatoes]]'', and [[Nobody's Fool (1994 film)|''Nobody's Fool'']]. At 80, she became the oldest actress to win the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for her role in ''[[Driving Miss Daisy]]''.

==Early life==
The youngest of three siblings, Tandy was born in Geldeston Road in [[Metropolitan Borough of Hackney|Hackney]], London, to Harry Tandy and his wife, Jessie Helen Horspool.<ref>[http://www.hackney.gov.uk/servapps/pressrelease/prnov98/pr356.htm Jessica Tandy's family to unveil plaque to commemorate star's Hackney birthplace 19 November 1998]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}; accessed 10 May 2007</ref> Her mother was from a large [[Fenland District|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.<ref>[http://blog.oup.com/2007/02/the_academy_awa/ "The Academy Awards: A Look At Jessica Tandy"]. ''Oxford University Press''. February 2007.</ref> She was educated at [[Dame Alice Owen's School]] in [[London Borough of Islington|Islington]].

Her father died when she was 12, and her mother subsequently taught evening courses to earn an income. Her brother Edward was later a [[prisoner of war]] of the Japanese in Asia.<ref>{{cite book| last=Kelly| first=Terence| title=Living with Japanese| publisher=Kellan Press| year=1977| page=136| isbn=978-0-9530-1930-4}}</ref>

==Career==

[[File:Jessica Tandy with Kim Hunter and Marlon Brando. cph.3b23243.jpg|thumb|left|Tandy (left, with [[Kim Hunter]] and [[Marlon Brando]]) portrayed [[Blanche DuBois|Blanche]] in the original 1947 Broadway production of ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'', a role that earned her the 1948 [[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play|Tony Award for Best Actress]].]]
Tandy was 18 years old when she made her professional debut on the London stage in 1927. During the 1930s, she acted in many plays in London's [[West End theatre|West End]], playing [[Ophelia]] (opposite [[John Gielgud]]'s legendary [[Hamlet]]) and [[Catherine of Valois|Katherine]] (opposite [[Laurence Olivier]]'s [[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]).<ref name="NYTimes">{{cite news |last=Berger |first=Marilyn |author-link=Marilyn Berger |date=12 September 1994 |title=Jessica Tandy, a Patrician Star Of Theater and Film, Dies at 85 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/12/obituaries/jessica-tandy-a-patrician-star-of-theater-and-film-dies-at-85.html?searchResultPosition=3&login=email&auth=login-email&login=facebook&auth=login-facebook |url-access=subscription |access-date=14 April 2024 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

She entered films in Britain, but after her marriage to [[Jack Hawkins]] failed, she moved to the United States hoping to find better roles. During her time as a leading actress on the stage in London, she often had to fight over roles with her two rivals, [[Peggy Ashcroft]] and [[Celia Johnson]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/26/garden/at-home-with-hume-cronyn-and-jessica-tandy-the-driven-mr-and-mrs-daisy.html| title=At Home with Cronyn and Tandy| newspaper=The New York Times| date=May 26, 1994| access-date=12 September 2016| url-access=subscription}}</ref> In the following years, she played supporting roles in several Hollywood films. 

Like many stage actors, Tandy also worked in radio. Among other programs, she was a regular on ''Mandrake the Magician''<ref>{{cite book| last=Cronyn| first=Hume| title=Terrible Liar: A Memoir| year=1991| publisher=William Morrow| location=New York| isbn=978-0-6881-2844-9| page=[https://archive.org/details/terribleliar00hume/page/159 159]| url=https://archive.org/details/terribleliar00hume/page/159}}</ref> (as Princess Narda), and then with her second husband Hume Cronyn in ''The Marriage''{{sfn|Cronyn|1991|pages=[https://archive.org/details/terribleliar00hume/page/253 253–54]}} which ran on radio from 1953 to 1954, and then segued onto television. 

She made her American film debut in ''[[The Seventh Cross (film)|The Seventh Cross]]'' (1944; appearing alongside Cronyn). She had supporting appearances in ''[[The Valley of Decision]]'' (1945), ''[[The Green Years (film)|The Green Years]]'' (1946, as Cronyn's daughter), ''[[Dragonwyck (film)|Dragonwyck]]'' (1946) starring [[Gene Tierney]] and [[Vincent Price]] and ''[[Forever Amber (film)|Forever Amber]]'' (1947). She appeared as the insomniac murderess in ''[[A Woman's Vengeance]]'' (1948), a [[film noir]] adapted by [[Aldous Huxley]] from his short story "[[Mortal Coils|The Gioconda Smile]]".

Over the next three decades, her film career continued sporadically while she found better roles on the stage. Her roles during this time included ''[[The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel]]'' (1951) opposite [[James Mason]], ''[[The Light in the Forest (film)|The Light in the Forest]]'' (1958), and a role as a domineering mother in [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s film ''[[The Birds (film)|The Birds]]'' (1963).

[[File:Jessica Tandy The Glass Eye Hitchcock 1957.JPG|thumb|upright|Tandy in ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' "The Glass Eye" (1957)]]
On Broadway, she won a [[Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play|Tony Award]] for her performance as [[Blanche Dubois]] in the original [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production of ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (play)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' in 1948. After this (she lost the film role to actress [[Vivien Leigh]]), she concentrated on the stage. In 1976, she and Cronyn joined the acting company of the [[Stratford Festival]], and returned in 1980 to debut Cronyn's play [[Foxfire (play)|''Foxfire'']].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://archives.stratfordfestival.ca/AIS/Details/people/9878| title=Jessica Tandy acting credits| website=Stratford Festival Archives| access-date=30 May 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531030726/https://archives.stratfordfestival.ca/AIS/Details/people/9878| archive-date=31 May 2019| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| last=Blackadar| first=Bruce| date=10 May 1980| title=Hume Cronyn turns playwright with Foxfire| newspaper=[[Toronto Star]]| page=F1}}</ref> In 1977, she earned her second Tony Award, for her performance (with Cronyn) in ''[[The Gin Game]].'' The following year the production transferred to London's [[Lyric Theatre, London|Lyric Theatre]], where Tandy was nominated for the [[Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a New Play]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Olivier Winners 1979 |url=https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/winners/olivier-winners-1979/ |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=Olivier Awards |language=en-GB}}</ref> Her third Tony came in 1982 for her performance, again with Cronyn, in ''Foxfire''.

The beginning of the 1980s saw a resurgence in her film career, with character roles in ''[[The World According to Garp (film)|The World According to Garp]]'' (with Cronyn), ''[[Best Friends (1982 film)|Best Friends]]'', ''[[Still of the Night (film)|Still of the Night]]'' (all 1982) and ''[[The Bostonians (film)|The Bostonians]]'' (1984). She and Cronyn were now working together more regularly on stage and television, including the films ''[[Honky Tonk Freeway]]'' (1981), ''[[Cocoon (film)|Cocoon]]'' (1985), ''[[*batteries not included]]'' (1987), ''[[Cocoon: The Return]]'' (1988), and the [[Emmy Award]] winning television film ''[[Foxfire (1987 film)|Foxfire]]'' (1987, recreating her Tony winning Broadway role).

However, it was her colourful performance in ''[[Driving Miss Daisy]]'' (1989), as an aging, stubborn [[U.S. Southern States|Southern]] Jewish matron, that earned her an [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Oscar]].<ref>{{cite news| title=Miss Daisy, Jessica Tandy Win Top Oscars| newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]| date=27 March 1990| url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/03/27/miss-daisy-jessica-tandy-win-top-oscars/| access-date=7 November 2010}}</ref>

She received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her work in the grassroots hit ''[[Fried Green Tomatoes (film)|Fried Green Tomatoes]]'' (1991) and co-starred in ''The Story Lady'' (1991 TV film, with her daughter Tandy Cronyn), ''[[Used People]]'' (1992, as [[Shirley MacLaine]]'s mother), television film ''[[To Dance with the White Dog]]'' (1993, with Cronyn), and [[Camilla (1994 film)|''Camilla'']] (1994, with Cronyn). ''[[Nobody's Fool (1994 film)|Nobody's Fool]]'' (1994) proved to be her last performance, at the age of 84.

==Personal life and death==
[[File:Jessica Tandy & Hume Cronyn.jpg|thumb|upright|Tandy and Hume Cronyn, 1988]]
In 1932, Tandy married English actor [[Jack Hawkins]] and together they had a daughter, Susan Hawkins.<ref name=lat>{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-06-18-ca-14212-story.html| title=Life After Jessie: For 52 years, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy shared the love story of the century. Her death last year devastated him, but his love lives on.| last=Champlin| first=Charles| newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]| date=June 18, 1995| access-date=November 10, 2020}}</ref> Susan became an actress and was the daughter-in-law of [[John Moynihan Tettemer]], a former Passionist monk who authored ''I Was a Monk: The Autobiography of John Tettemer'', and was cast in small roles in ''[[Lost Horizon (1937 film)|Lost Horizon]]'' and ''[[Meet John Doe]]''.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/persondetails/87016?sid=124efb53-ac38-4d71-9a20-ecdd093756fd&sr=0.8908708&cp=1&pos=0| title=John Tettemer| website=[[American Film Institute]] Catalog| accessdate=5 May 2018}}</ref> 

Tandy and Hawkins divorced in 1940. She married Canadian actor [[Hume Cronyn]] in 1942.<ref name=lat/> Prior to moving to [[Connecticut]], she and Cronyn lived for many years in nearby [[Pound Ridge, New York]], and they remained together until her death in 1994. They had two children, daughter Tandy Cronyn, an actress who co-starred with her mother in the TV film ''The Story Lady'', and son Christopher Cronyn. Tandy became a [[naturalised]] citizen of the US in 1952. 

In 1990, Tandy was diagnosed with [[ovarian cancer]], and she also suffered from [[Angina pectoris|angina]] and [[glaucoma]]. Despite her illnesses and advancing age she continued working. On September 11, 1994, she died at home in [[Easton, Connecticut]], at the age of 85.<ref name="NYTimes" /><ref>{{cite web| last1=Shipman| first1=David| title=Obituary: Jessica Tandy| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-jessica-tandy-1448550.html| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220608/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-jessica-tandy-1448550.html| archive-date=8 June 2022| url-access=subscription| url-status=live| newspaper=[[The Independent]]| location=London| date=12 September 1994| access-date=11 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=From the Archives: Jessica Tandy, Star of Stage, Screen and TV, Dies at 85| url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-jessica-tandy-19940912-snap-story.html| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date=12 September 1994| access-date=11 June 2019}}</ref>

==Work==
===US stage credits===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
|1930
|''{{sortname|The|Matriarch|Gladys Bronwyn Stern}}''
|Toni Rakonitz
|
|-
|1930
|''{{sortname|The|Last Enemy|The Last Enemy (play)}}''
|Cynthia Perry
|
|-
|1938
|''[[Time and the Conways]]''
|Kay
|
|-
|1939
|''{{sortname|The|White Steed|The White Steed}}''
|Nora Fintry
|
|-
|1940
|''[[Geneva (play)|Geneva]]''
|Deaconess
|
|-
|1940
|''[[Jupiter Laughs]]''
|Dr. Mary Murray
|
|-
|1941
|''Anne of England''
|Abigail Hill
|
|-
|1942
|''Yesterday's Magic''
|Daughter Cattrin
|
|-
|1947
|''{{sortname|A|Streetcar Named Desire|dab=play}}''
|[[Blanche DuBois]]
|[[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play]]
|-
|1950
|''Hilda Crane''
|Hilda Crane
|
|-
|1951
|''Madam, Will You Walk''
|Mary Doyle
|
|-
|1951
|''{{sortname|The|Fourposter}}''
|Agnes
|
|-
|1955
|''The Man in the Dog Suit''
|Martha Walling
|
|-
|1955
|''{{sortname|The|Honeys|The Honeys (play)}}''
|Mary
|
|-
|1959
|''Triple Play''
|In ''Bedtime Story'': Angela Nightingale<br>In ''[[Portrait of a Madonna]]'': Miss Lucretia Collins<br>In ''[[A Pound on Demand]]'': The Public
|
|-
|1959
|''[[Five Finger Exercise]]''
|Louise Harrington
|
|-
|1964
|''{{sortname|The|Physicists}}''
|Fraulein Doktor Mathilde von Zahnd
|
|-
|1966
|''{{sortname|A|Delicate Balance|dab=play}}''
|Agnes
|
|-
|1970
|''[[Camino Real (play)|Camino Real]]''
|Marguerite Gautier
|
|-
|1970
|''[[Home (Storey play)|Home]]''
|Marjorie
|
|-
|1971
|''All Over''
|The Wife
|
|-
|1972
|''[[Not I]]''<ref>{{cite journal| title=Theatre in Review| first=Gordon M.| last=Wickstrom| url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3205842| journal=Educational Theatre Journal| volume=25| number=1| date=March 1973| pages=102–104| jstor=3205842| url-access=subscription}}</ref>
|Mouth
|[[Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress#1970s|Obie Award for Best Actress]]
|-
|1974
|''Noël Coward in Two Keys''
|In ''[[A Song at Twilight]]'': Hilde Latymer<br>In ''[[Come Into the Garden, Maud (play)|Come Into the Garden, Maud]]'': Anna Mary Conklin
|
|-
|1977
|''{{sortname|The|Gin Game}}''
|Fonsia Dorsey
|[[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play]]<br />[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play]]
|-
|1981
|''Rose''
|Mother
|Nominated—[[Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play]]<br />Nominated—[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play]]
|-
|1982
|''[[Foxfire (play)|Foxfire]]''
|Annie Nations
|[[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play]]<br />[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play]]
|-
|1983
|''{{sortname|The|Glass Menagerie}}''
|Amanda Wingfield
|
|-
|1986
|''{{sortname|The|Petition|nolink=yes}}''
|Lady Elizabeth Milne
|Nominated—[[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play]]
|}

===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
|1932
| ''[[The Indiscretions of Eve]]''
|Maid
|
|-
|1938
|''[[Murder in the Family]]''
|Ann Osborne
|
|-
|1944
|''{{sortname|The|Seventh Cross|dab=film}}''
|Liesel Roeder
|
|-
|1944
|''[[Blonde Fever]]''
|Diner at Inn
|Uncredited
|-
|1945
|''{{sortname|The|Valley of Decision}}''
|Louise Kane
|
|-
|1946
|''{{sortname|The|Green Years|dab=film}}''
|Kate Leckie
|
|-
|1946
|''[[Dragonwyck (film)|Dragonwyck]]''
|Peggy O'Malley
|
|-
|1947
|''[[Forever Amber (film)|Forever Amber]]''
|Nan Britton
|
|-
|1948
|''{{sortname|A|Woman's Vengeance}}''
|Janet Spence
|
|-
|1950
|''[[September Affair]]''
|Catherine Lawrence
|
|-
|1951
|''{{sortname|The|Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel}}''
|Frau Lucie Maria Rommel
|
|-
|1958
|''{{sortname|The|Light in the Forest|dab=film}}''
|Myra Butler
|
|-
|1962
|''[[Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man]]''
|Helen Adams
|Nominated—[[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture]]
|-
|1963
|''{{sortname|The|Birds|dab=film}}''
|Lydia Brenner
|
|-
|1976
|''[[Butley (film)|Butley]]''
|Edna Shaft
|
|-
|1981
|''[[Honky Tonk Freeway]]''
|Carol
|
|-
|1982
|''{{sortname|The|World According to Garp|dab=film}}''
|Mrs. Fields
|
|-
|1982
|''[[Still of the Night (film)|Still of the Night]]''
|Grace Rice
|
|-
|1982
|''[[Best Friends (1982 film)|Best Friends]]''
|Eleanor McCullen
|
|-
|1984
|''{{sortname|The|Bostonians|dab=film}}''
|Miss Birdseye
|
|-
|1984
|''[[Terror in the Aisles]]''
|Herself
|Archival footage
|-
|1985
|''[[Cocoon (film)|Cocoon]]''
|Alma Finley
|Nominated—[[Saturn Award for Best Actress]]
|-
|1987
|''[[Batteries Not Included]]''
|Faye Riley
|[[Saturn Award for Best Actress]]
|-
|1988
|''{{sortname|The|House on Carroll Street}}''
|Miss Venable
|
|-
|1988
|''[[Cocoon: The Return]]''
|Alma Finley
|Nominated—[[Saturn Award for Best Actress]]
|-
|1989
|''[[Driving Miss Daisy]]''
|Daisy Werthan
|[[Academy Award for Best Actress]]<br/>[[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role]]<br/>[[Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress]]<br/>[[David di Donatello|David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress]]<br/>[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy]]<br/>Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress<br/>[[Silver Bear|Silver Bear for the Best Joint Performance]] {{small|(with [[Morgan Freeman]])}}<ref name="Berlinale">{{cite web| url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1990/03_preistr_ger_1990/03_Preistraeger_1990.html| title=Berlinale: 1990 Prize Winners| access-date=17 March 2011| website=[[Berlin International Film Festival]]| archive-date=24 January 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124044311/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1990/03_preistr_ger_1990/03_Preistraeger_1990.html| url-status=dead}}</ref><br/>Nominated—[[American Comedy Awards|American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture]]<br/>Nominated—[[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress]]<br/>Nominated—[[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress]]
|-
|1991
|''[[Fried Green Tomatoes]]''
|Ninny Threadgoode
|Nominated—[[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]]<br/>Nominated—[[American Comedy Awards|American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture]]<br/>Nominated—[[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role]]<br/>Nominated—[[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture]]
|-
|1992
|''[[Used People]]''
|Freida
|
|-
|1994
|''A Century of Cinema''
|Herself
|Documentary
|-
|1994
|''[[Camilla (1994 film)|Camilla]]''
|Camilla Cara
|Released posthumously
|-
|1994
|''[[Nobody's Fool (1994 film)|Nobody's Fool]]''
|Beryl Peoples
|Released posthumously (final film role)
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes
|-
|1948
|''[[Actors Studio (TV series)|Actors Studio]]''
|Miss Lucretia Collins
|Episode: "Portrait of a Madonna"
|-
|1950
|''[[Masterpiece Playhouse]]''
|Hedda
|Episode: "[[Hedda Gabler]]"
|-
|1951
|''[[Lights Out (1949-1952 TV series)|Lights Out]]''
|
|Episode: "Bird of Time"
|-
|1951
|''[[Somerset Maugham TV Theatre]]''
|
|Episode: "The Man from Glasgow"
|-
|1951
|''[[Prudential Family Playhouse]]''
|Jane Crosby
|Episode: "Icebound"
|-
|1951
|''[[Betty Crocker Star Matinee]]''
|
|Episode: "The Weak Spot"
|-
|1951–1957
|''[[Studio One (American TV series)|Studio One]]''
|Various
|2 episodes
|-
|1953–1956
|''[[Omnibus (American TV program)|Omnibus]]''
|Various 
|5 episodes
|-
|1954
|''[[The Marriage (American TV series)|The Marriage]]''
|Liz Marriott
|8 episodes
|-
|1955
|''{{sort|Producers' Showcase}}''
|Agnes
|Episode: "The Fourposter"<br>Nominated—[[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie]]
|-
|1955
|''[[The Philco Television Playhouse]]''
|Liz Marriott
|Episode: "Christmas 'til Closing"
|-
|1955–1956
|''[[Goodyear Television Playhouse]]''
|Various
|2 episodes
|-
|1956
|''[[The United States Steel Hour]]''
|Alice Wiggims
|Episode: "The Great Adventure"
|-
|1956
|''[[Star Stage]]''
|
|Episode: "The School Mistress"
|-
|1956
|''[[The Alcoa Hour]]''
|Olivia Crummit
|Episode: "The Confidence Man"
|-
|1956
|''[[General Electric Theater]]''
|Laura Whitemore
|Episode: "The Pot of Gold"
|-
|1956 
|''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' 
|Edwina Freel 
|Season 2 Episode 6: "Toby"
|-
|1957 
|''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' 
|Julia Lester 
|Season 3 Episode 1: "The Glass Eye"
|-
|1957
|''[[Studio 57]]''
|Miss Bedford
|Episode: "Little Miss Bedford"
|-
|1957
|''[[Suspicion (American TV series)|Suspicion]]''
|
|Episode: "Murder Me Gently"
|-
|1957–1958
|''[[Schlitz Playhouse of Stars]]''
|Various
|2 episodes
|-
|1958 
|''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' 
|Laura Bowlby 
|Season 3 Episode 37: "The Canary Sedan"
|-
|1958
|''[[Telephone Time]]''
|Bertha Kinsky
|Episode: "War Against War"
|-
|1959
|''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]''
|The Public
|Episode #12.34
|-
|1959
|''[[DuPont Show of the Month]]''
|Mrs. Baines
|Episode: "The Fallen Idol"
|-
|1959
|''[[The Moon and Sixpence (1959 film)|The Moon and Sixpence]]''
|Blanche Stroeve
|Television movie
|-
|1964
|''[[Breaking Point (1963 TV series)|Breaking Point]]''
|Roberta Duncan
|Episode: "Glass Flowers Never Drop Petals"
|-
|1968
|''[[Judd, for the Defense]]''
|Helen Wister
|Episode: "Punishments, Cruel and Unusual"
|-
|1972
|''[[O'Hara, U.S. Treasury]]''
|Genevieve
|Episode: "Operation: Dorias"
|-
|1972
|''[[The F.B.I. (TV series)|The F.B.I.]]''
|Ardyth Nolan
|Episode: "The Set-Up"
|-
|1972
|''[[Norman Corwin Presents]]''
|
|Episode: "A Foreign Field"
|-
|1975
|''[[Bicentennial Minutes]]''
|Herself
|Episode #1.424
|-
|1981
|''[[The Gin Game#Adaptations|The Gin Game]]''
|Fonsia Dorsey
|Television movie
|-
|1987
|''[[Foxfire (1987 film)|Foxfire]]''
|Annie Nations
|Television movie<br>[[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie]]
|-
|1991
|''{{sortname|The|Story Lady|nolink=yes}}''<nowiki>†</nowiki>
|Grace McQueen
|Television movie<br>Nominated—[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film]]
|-
|1993
|''[[To Dance with the White Dog]]''
|Cora Peek
|Television movie<br>Nominated—[[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie]]
|-
|}
<nowiki>†</nowiki>Re-issued on DVD as ''The Christmas Story Lady''

==Other awards==
Tandy was chosen by [[People (magazine)|''People'' magazine]] as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1990.<ref>{{cite journal| url=https://people.com/archive/beautiful-through-the-years-vol-47-no-18/| title=Beautiful Through the Years| journal=[[People (magazine)|People]]| language=en| access-date=1 February 2019}}</ref>

*1979 – Induction into the [[American Theatre Hall of Fame]]<ref>[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/188816%7C82278/jessica-tandy#notes "Notes for Jessica Tandy"]. ''[[Turner Classic Movies]]''. Accessed 11 July 2016.</ref>
*1979 – [[Sarah Siddons Award]] [[Chicago theatre]]
*1986 – [[Drama Desk Special Award]]
*1986 – [[Kennedy Center Honors]] Recipient
*1990 – [[National Medal of Arts]]
*1991 – [[Women in Film Los Angeles|Women in Film]] [[Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards#THE CRYSTAL AWARD|Crystal Award]]<ref name=WIF>{{cite web| title=Past Recipients: Crystal Award| url=http://wif.org/past-recipients| website=Women In Film| access-date=10 May 2011| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724120329/http://www.wif.org/past-recipients| archive-date=24 July 2011}}</ref>
*1994 – [[Special Tony Award]] for Lifetime Achievement shared with her husband, [[Hume Cronyn]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.shoestring.org/mmi_revs/jessica-tandy.html Movie Magazine International Tribute]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110721054307/http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html#86#90 Lifetime Honors – National Medal of Arts]
* [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/12/obituaries/jessica-tandy-a-patrician-star-of-theater-and-film-dies-at-85.html?searchResultPosition=3&login=email&auth=login-email&login=facebook&auth=login-facebook Obituary]—''The New York Times'', 12 September 1994
* [http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=187787&lang=eng Katharine Cronyn Harley fonds (R11163)] at [[Library and Archives Canada]]. The fonds includes many records related to Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn.

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