ACTOR

Jessica Tandy

1909 - 1994

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Jessie Alice Tandy (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was a British actress. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jessica Tandy has received more than 5,121,857 page views. Her biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Jessica Tandy is the 550th most popular actor (down from 531st in 2019), the 685th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 690th in 2019) and the 84th most popular British Actor.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 59

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Jessica Tandy ranks 550 out of 13,578. Before her are Ken Watanabe, Maria Schell, Raul Julia, Louise Fletcher, Mae West, and Nastassja Kinski. After her are Harriet Andersson, Peter Finch, Jim Broadbent, Samy Naceri, Mary Pickford, and Woody Harrelson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Jessica Tandy ranks 33. Before her are Aleksandar Ranković, Benny Goodman, Errol Flynn, Fred Perry, John Fante, and Oldřich Nejedlý. After her are Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Edward Tatum, Miep Gies, Matt Busby, Ernst vom Rath, and Leo Fender. Among people deceased in 1994, Jessica Tandy ranks 48. Before her are Witold Lutosławski, Fernando Rey, Pujie, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and Raul Julia. After her are Roland Ratzenberger, Jack Kirby, Matt Busby, Roberto Eduardo Viola, Julian Schwinger, and György Cziffra.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jessica Tandy ranks 685 out of 8,785. Before her are John Henry Newman (1801), James Clark Ross (1800), Bruce Chatwin (1940), Oliver Heaviside (1850), William Jones (1746), and Dua Lipa (1995). After her are Peter Finch (1916), Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930), Jim Broadbent (1949), Peter Shilton (1949), William Oughtred (1574), and Stephen Gray (1666).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Jessica Tandy ranks 84. Before her are Tilda Swinton (1960), Charles Laughton (1899), Desmond Llewelyn (1914), Sean Bean (1959), Leslie Howard (1893), and Brian Cox (1946). After her are Peter Finch (1916), Jim Broadbent (1949), Oliver Reed (1938), Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765), Deborah Kerr (1921), and Jude Law (1972).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Birds
Lydia Brenner
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
Mar 28o 19637.524 / 10
Driving Miss Daisy
Daisy Werthan
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters, in a time when those types of relationships were shunned.
Dec 13o 19897.239 / 10
Fried Green Tomatoes
Ninny Threadgoode
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the 1920s.
Dec 27o 19917.707 / 10