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Jessica Tandy

1909 - 1994

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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 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. Her films included The Birds, Cocoon, Fried Green Tomatoes, and Nobody's Fool. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jessica Tandy is the 716th most popular actor (down from 550th in 2019), the 963rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 685th in 2019) and the 109th most popular British Actor.

Jessica Tandy is most famous for her role as the mother in the movie "Driving Miss Daisy"

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Among actors, Jessica Tandy ranks 716 out of 13,578. Before her are Courteney Cox, George C. Scott, Brian Dennehy, Billy West, Michel Galabru, and Brooke Shields. After her are Kyle MacLachlan, Brenda Blethyn, Kim Cattrall, Michelle Yeoh, Marlène Jobert, and Annette Bening.

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Among people born in 1909, Jessica Tandy ranks 44. Before her are Teiichi Matsumaru, John Fante, Leo Fender, Alain Poher, Virginia Apgar, and Tokizo Ichihashi. After her are Hélder Câmara, Yiannis Ritsos, László Rajk, Vicente Feola, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, and Marguerite Perey. Among people deceased in 1994, Jessica Tandy ranks 60. Before her are Chung Il-kwon, György Cziffra, Howard Martin Temin, Jack Kirby, Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, and Peter Cushing. After her are Roberto Eduardo Viola, Jean-Louis Barrault, Ken Noritake, Joseph Cotten, James Clavell, and John Candy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jessica Tandy ranks 963 out of 8,785. Before her are William Holman Hunt (1827), Naomi Campbell (1970), Thomas Malory (1405), Francis Hutcheson (1694), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), and Edmund Spenser (1552). After her are Brenda Blethyn (1946), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), Robert FitzRoy (1805), John Ray (1627), Leonora Carrington (1917), and James Hadley Chase (1906).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Jessica Tandy ranks 109. Before her are Christian Bale (1974), Jim Broadbent (1949), Tom Wilkinson (1948), Ray Milland (1907), Naomi Watts (1968), and Peter Cushing (1913). After her are Brenda Blethyn (1946), Kim Cattrall (1956), Pat Hitchcock (1928), Natasha Richardson (1963), Rachel Weisz (1970), and Boris Karloff (1887).

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