Jessica Tandy Net Worth

Jessica Tandy's Quotes

• [joking reference to her husband, Hume Cronyn] When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street, I always hope it's the street.
• I must say, if I had known at the beginning of my life that this is where I would get to, I would have said, "Not possible. Not possible."
• I'm most comfortable on the stage. Because of the nature of film and television, you'll very often do the climactic scene on the first day and the other parts weeks later. It's hard to remember exactly what state you were in. It's easier when you start at the beginning and go through to the end. Any new project, new play, new film, you're really starting from square one every time. You can't be sure enough of yourself to say, "Well, this is just a piece of cake." It's not like that at all -- not for me.
• Anything in your life that can parallel something in the life of a character that you're playing is of great value because you can really feel all of those things and know what it would be like.
• [1950] Jack Hawkins is a wonderful actor, but a rotten husband!

Interesting Facts about Jessica Tandy

1. Mother of Susan Hawkins with Jack Hawkins and Tandy Cronyn and Christopher Cronyn with Hume Cronyn.Grandmother of actress Katherine Cronyn.
2. 1990: Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world.
3. 1990: Diagnosed with cancer.
4. She won a Tony Award in 1978 for "The Gin Game".
5. She won a Tony Award in 1948 for "A Streetcar Named Desire".
6. Starred (with husband Hume Cronyn) as Liz Marriott on NBC Radio's "The Marriage" (1953-1954).
7. 1989: She became the 12th performer to win the Triple Crown of acting. Oscar: Best Actress, Driving Miss Daisy (1989); Tonys: Best Actress-Play, "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1948) and Best Actress-Play, "The Gin Game" (1978) and Best Actress-Play, "Foxfire" (1983); Emmy: Best Actress-Miniseries/Special, Foxfire (1987).
8. Has won four Tony Awards: in 1948, as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "A Streetcar Named Desire," an award shared with Judith Anderson for "Medea" and Katharine Cornell for "Antony and Cleopatra"; as Best Actress (Play) in 1978 for "The Gin Game" and in 1983 for "Foxfire"; and in 1994 a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement shared with her husband, Hume Cronyn. She also received Tony Award nominations in 1971 as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for "Rose" and in 1986 as Best Actress (Play) for "The Petition.".
9. Broadway producer Lee Shubert persuaded her to change her name from Jessie to Jessica during her early stage years.
10. 1974: Awarded an honorary law degree from the University of Western Ontario.
11. 1990: She and husband Hume Cronyn were both awarded the American National Medal of the Arts by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
12. At age 80, she was the oldest winner of a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy (1989).
13. Won a 1993 Special Tony Award (New York City) lifetime achievement award.
14. Was originally cast as Aunt Trina in I Remember Mama (1948) but later dropped out in order to pursue A Woman's Vengeance (1948). As a result Ellen Corby, who went on to receive a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her performance, was cast instead.
15. Is one of 17 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony); the others in chronological order are Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno, Maureen Stapleton, Audrey Hepburn, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Ellen Burstyn, Helen Mirren, Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange, Viola Davis and Glenda Jackson.
16. Having won Best Actress at age 80, she was the oldest winner of an Academy Award until Christopher Plummer won for Beginners (2010) at age 82.
17. Co-starred with Tippi Hedren in The Birds (1963), and then with Hedren's daughter Melanie Griffith in Nobody's Fool (1994).
18. Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6284 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
19. Became pregnant by her husband, Hume Cronyn, in May 1954 but suffered a miscarriage in June 1954, just a week prior to the premiere of their TV series The Marriage (1954).
20. Shares some similarities with actress Eva Le Gallienne. Both were born in England but made their careers in the U.S., and their first Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category came at the age of 82.