Jessica Tandy Net Worth
Jessica Tandy Net Worth is
$1.9 Million
Jessica Tandy Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Jessica Alice Tandy (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was a British-American stage and film actress, who spent most of her 67-year career in the United States. She appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV.Born in London to a headmistress and a travelling salesman, she made her professional debut on the London stage in 1927, at the age of 18. During the 1930s, she appeared in a large number of plays in London's West End, playing roles such as Ophelia, opposite John Gielgud's legendary Hamlet, and Katherine, opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V. In the 1930s, she also worked in a couple of British films. Following the end of her marriage to the British actor Jack Hawkins, she moved to New York in 1940, where she met Canadian actor Hume Cronyn. He became her second husband and frequent partner on stage and screen.She received a nominee for the Tony Award for her performance as Blanche Dubois in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948, sharing the prize with Katharine Cornell (who won for the female lead in Antony and Cleopatra). Judith Anderson (for the latter's portrayal of Medea) won the Tony Award. Over the following three decades, her career continued sporadically and included a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, The Birds (1963), and a Tony Award-winning performance in The Gin Game (1977, playing in the two-hander play opposite Hume Cronyn). Along with Cronyn, she was a member of the original acting company of the Guthrie Theater.In the mid-1980s she had a career revival. She appeared with Cronyn in the Broadway production of Foxfire in 1983 and its television adaptation four years later, winning both a Tony Award and an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Annie Nations. During these years, she appeared in films such as Cocoon (1985), also with Cronyn.She became the oldest actress to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Driving Miss Daisy (1989), for which she also won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe, and was nominated 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". She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1990, and continued working until shortly before her death. | Full Name | Jessica Tandy |
| Date Of Birth | June 7, 1909, Metropolitan Borough of Hackney |
| Died | September 11, 1994, Easton, Connecticut, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Stoke Newington, London, England, UK |
| Height | 5' 4" (1.63 m) |
| Profession | Actress, Soundtrack |
| Education | Dame Alice Owen's School |
| Spouse | Hume Cronyn (m. 1942–1994), Jack Hawkins (m. 1932–1940) |
| Children | Tandy Cronyn, Susan Hawkins, Christopher Cronyn |
| Parents | Harry Tandy, Jessie Helen Tandy |
| Awards | Academy Award for Best Actress |
| Nominations | Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television, Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, National Society of Fi... |
| Movies | Driving Miss Daisy, The Birds, Fried Green Tomatoes, Batteries Not Included, Nobody's Fool, Cocoon, The Seventh Cross, The World According to Garp, Still of the Night, Cocoon: The Return, The Green Years, Dragonwyck, The Valley of Decision, Camilla, Used People, The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, ... |
| TV Shows | Producers' Showcase, Goodyear Television Playhouse, The Alcoa Hour, Norman Corwin Presents, O'Hara, U.S. Treasury, Star Stage, Prudential Family Playhouse, The Marriage, Actors Studio, Suspicion |
| Star Sign | Gemini |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | [About her contract with Fox in the 40s] I think things were much more stereotyped then. You either were a sex symbol, or a beautiful woman, which I wasn't, or you got the dregs of the parts, not the interesting ones. I'd been playing large parts in the theater for a long time, being the whole cheese in a lot of plays, and I wanted to do more in films than I was offered. But Hume was working out there, and so we were living there, and because I like working, I signed the contract. |
| 2 | [1950] Jack Hawkins is a wonderful actor, but a rotten husband! |
| 3 | 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. |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | 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." |
| 6 | [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. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | She was awarded the 1978 Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Actress in a Play for "The Gin Game" on Broadway in New York City. |
| 2 | She was awarded the 1985 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Performance in Leading Role for the play, "Foxfire" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California. |
| 3 | Grandmother of Heather (b. June 12, 1957), Holly (b. March 12, 1959), John (b. April 11, 1961) and Wendy (b. May 10, 1967) via daughter Susan Hawkins and her husband John Tettemer. |
| 4 | Is one of 11 actresses who won the Best Actress Oscar for a move that also won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for Driving Miss Daisy (1989)). The others are Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night (1934), Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939), Greer Garson for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Louise Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment (1983), Jodie Foster for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby (2004). |
| 5 | Is one of 14 actresses to have won both the Best Actress Academy Award and the Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe for the same performance; hers being for Driving Miss Daisy (1989). The others, in chronological order, are: Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday (1950), Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins (1964), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Glenda Jackson for A Touch of Class (1973), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Cher for Moonstruck (1987), Helen Hunt for As Good as It Gets (1997), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose (2007), and Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook (2012). |
| 6 | Is one of 26 actresses to have won an Academy Award for their performance in a comedy; hers being for Driving Miss Daisy (1989). The others, in chronological order, are: Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night (1934)), Loretta Young (The Farmer's Daughter (1947)), Josephine Hull (Harvey (1950)), Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday (1950)), Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday (1953)), Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower (1969)), Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class (1973)), Lee Grant (Shampoo (1975)), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall (1977)), Maggie Smith (California Suite (1978)), Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard (1980)), Jessica Lange (Tootsie (1982)), Anjelica Huston (Prizzi's Honor (1985)), Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck (1987)), Cher (Moonstruck (1987)), Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King (1991)), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway (1994)), Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite (1995)), Frances McDormand (Fargo (1996)), Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets (1997)), Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)), and Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook (2012)). |
| 7 | She met Hume Cronyn in 1940, and they married in 1942. |
| 8 | Was the 100th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy (1989) at The 62nd Annual Academy Awards (1990) on March 26, 1990. |
| 9 | She and husband Hume Cronyn partnered on screen in 13 movies between 1944 and 1994, usually playing a couple: The Seventh Cross (1944), Blonde Fever (1944), The Green Years (1946), The Moon and Sixpence (1959), Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), The World According to Garp (1982), Cocoon (1985), *batteries not included (1987), Foxfire (1987), Cocoon: The Return (1988), The Story Lady (1991), To Dance with the White Dog (1993) and Camilla (1994). |
| 10 | Shares some similarities with actress Eva Le Gallienne. Both were born in England but made their career in U.S. and their first Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category came at the age 82. |
| 11 | Became pregnant by her husband Hume Cronyn in May 1954 but she suffered a miscarriage in June 1954, just a week prior to the premiere of their TV series The Marriage (1954). |
| 12 | Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6284 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. |
| 13 | Co-starred with Tippi Hedren in The Birds (1963), and then with Hedren's daughter Melanie Griffith in Nobody's Fool (1994). |
| 14 | 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. |
| 15 | Is one of 15 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 and Jessica Lange. |
| 16 | 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. |
| 17 | Won a 1993 Special Tony Award (New York City) lifetime achievement award. |
| 18 | At age 80, she was the oldest winner of a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy (1989). |
| 19 | 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. |
| 20 | 1974: She earned a law degree. |
| 21 | Broadway producer Lee Shubert convinced her to change her name from Jessie to Jessica during her early stage years. |
| 22 | 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." |
| 23 | 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). |
| 24 | Starred (with husband Hume Cronyn) as Liz Marriott on NBC Radio's "The Marriage" (1953-1954). |
| 25 | She won a Tony Award in 1948 for "A Streetcar Named Desire". |
| 26 | She won a Tony Award in 1978 for "The Gin Game". |
| 27 | 1990: Diagnosed with cancer. |
| 28 | 1990: Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world. |
| 29 | Mother of Susan Hawkins with Jack Hawkins and Tandy Cronyn and Christopher Cronyn with Hume Cronyn. Grandmother of actress Katherine Cronyn. |
Actress
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nobody's Fool | 1994 | Miss Beryl | |
| Camilla | 1994 | Camilla Cara | |
| To Dance with the White Dog | 1993 | TV Movie | Cora Peek |
| Used People | 1992 | Freida | |
| Fried Green Tomatoes | 1991 | Ninny Threadgoode | |
| The Story Lady | 1991 | TV Movie | Grace McQueen |
| Driving Miss Daisy | 1989 | Daisy Werthan | |
| Cocoon: The Return | 1988 | Alma Finley | |
| The House on Carroll Street | 1988 | Miss Venable | |
| *batteries not included | 1987 | Faye Riley | |
| Foxfire | 1987 | TV Movie | Annie Nations |
| Cocoon | 1985 | Alma Finley | |
| The Bostonians | 1984 | Miss Birdseye | |
| Best Friends | 1982 | Eleanor McCullen | |
| Still of the Night | 1982 | Grace Rice | |
| The World According to Garp | 1982 | Mrs. Fields | |
| The Gin Game | 1981 | TV Movie | Fonsia Dorsey |
| Honky Tonk Freeway | 1981 | Carol | |
| Butley | 1974 | Edna Shaft | |
| The F.B.I. | 1972 | TV Series | Ardyth Nolan |
| O'Hara, U.S. Treasury | 1972 | TV Series | Genevieve |
| Norman Corwin Presents | 1972 | TV Series | |
| Judd for the Defense | 1968 | TV Series | Helen Wister |
| The Birds | 1963 | Lydia Brenner | |
| Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man | 1962 | Mrs. Adams | |
| The Moon and Sixpence | 1959 | TV Movie | Blanche Stroeve |
| The DuPont Show of the Month | 1959 | TV Series | Mrs. Baines |
| The Christmas Tree | 1958 | TV Movie | Mrs. Martin |
| The Light in the Forest | 1958 | Myra Butler | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | 1956-1958 | TV Series | Laura Bowlby / Julia Lester / Edwina Freel |
| Schlitz Playhouse | 1957-1958 | TV Series | Cora Torrence |
| Telephone Time | 1958 | TV Series | Bertha Kinsky |
| Suspicion | 1957 | TV Series | |
| Studio 57 | 1957 | TV Series | Miss Bedford |
| Studio One in Hollywood | 1951-1957 | TV Series | Mrs. Moore / Connaught O'Brien |
| Goodyear Playhouse | 1955-1956 | TV Series | Leticia Blacklock / Liz Marriott |
| General Electric Theater | 1956 | TV Series | Laura Whittemarc |
| The Alcoa Hour | 1956 | TV Series | Olivia Crummit |
| Star Stage | 1956 | TV Series | |
| The United States Steel Hour | 1956 | TV Series | Alice Wiggims |
| The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse | 1955 | TV Series | Liz Marriott |
| Omnibus | 1953-1955 | TV Series | Blanche Du Bois / Jackie |
| Producers' Showcase | 1955 | TV Series | Agnes |
| The Marriage | 1954 | TV Series | Liz Marriott |
| The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel | 1951 | Frau Lucie Marie Rommel | |
| The Prudential Family Playhouse | 1951 | TV Series | Jane Crosby |
| Somerset Maugham TV Theatre | 1951 | TV Series | |
| Lights Out | 1951 | TV Series | |
| September Affair | 1950 | Catherine Lawrence | |
| Masterpiece Playhouse | 1950 | TV Series | Hedda |
| Actor's Studio | 1948 | TV Series | Miss Lucretia Collins |
| A Woman's Vengeance | 1948 | Janet Spence | |
| Forever Amber | 1947 | Nan Britton | |
| Dragonwyck | 1946 | Peggy O'Malley | |
| The Green Years | 1946 | Kate Leckie | |
| The Valley of Decision | 1945 | Louise Kane | |
| Blonde Fever | 1944 | Diner at Inn (uncredited) | |
| The Seventh Cross | 1944 | Liesel Roeder | |
| Fox in the Morning | 1939 | TV Movie | Barbara Scott |
| Fiat Justitia | 1939 | TV Movie | |
| Glorious Morning | 1938 | TV Movie | |
| Murder in the Family | 1938 | Ann Osborne | |
| The Indiscretions of Eve | 1932 | Maid |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Driving Miss Daisy | 1989 | performer: "AFTER THE BALL" 1892 | |
| *batteries not included | 1987 | performer: "LET'S HAVE ANOTHER CUP OF COFFEE" |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nobody's Fool | 1994 | dedicatee |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| An African Love Story | 1996 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| A Century of Cinema | 1994 | Documentary | Herself |
| The 48th Annual Tony Awards | 1994 | TV Special | Herself - Winner: Lifetime Achievement Award |
| The 64th Annual Academy Awards | 1992 | TV Special | Herself - Nominated: Best Actress in a Supporting Role & Presenter: 'The Prince of Tides' Clip |
| The 49th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1992 | TV Special | Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture & Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV |
| The 15th Annual Women in Film Crystal Awards | 1991 | TV Special | Herself |
| The 63rd Annual Academy Awards | 1991 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter: Best Actor in a Leading Role |
| Reflections on the Silver Screen | 1990 | TV Series | Herself |
| The 44th Annual Tony Awards | 1990 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter: Best Direction of a Play & Best Leading Actor in a Play |
| Night of 100 Stars III | 1990 | TV Movie | Herself |
| The 62nd Annual Academy Awards | 1990 | TV Special | Herself - Winner: Best Actress in a Leading Role & Co-Presenter: Best Film Editing |
| The 47th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1990 | TV Special | Herself - Winner: Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical / Comedy |
| CBS This Morning | 1988 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The 40th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1988 | TV Special | Herself - Winner: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1987 | TV Special documentary | Herself |
| Today | 1967-1987 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The 41st Annual Tony Awards | 1987 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter: Best Leading Actor in a Play |
| The 40th Annual Tony Awards | 1986 | TV Special | Herself - Performer & Nominee: Best Leading Actress in a Play |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1986 | TV Movie documentary | Herself - Honoree |
| The 37th Annual Tony Awards | 1983 | TV Special | Herself - Winner: Best Actress in a Play |
| The 35th Annual Tony Awards | 1981 | TV Special | Herself - Nominee: Best Featured Actress in a Play |
| Over Easy | 1979 | TV Series | Herself |
| The 32nd Annual Tony Awards | 1978 | TV Special | Herself - Winner: Best Actress in a Play |
| Dinah! | 1975 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Bicentennial Minutes | 1975 | TV Series short | Herself |
| Tennessee Williams' South | 1973 | TV Movie documentary | Blanche DuBois |
| The David Frost Show | 1970 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Dateline: Hollywood | 1967 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Joey Bishop Show | 1967 | TV Series | Herself |
| Here's Hollywood | 1962 | TV Series | Herself |
| The 15th Annual Tony Awards | 1961 | TV Special | Herself - Accepting Award for Best Director |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1951-1959 | TV Series | Herself / The Public in a scene from 'A Pound on Demand' / Herself - Actress |
| Person to Person | 1958 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue | 1951 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Fred Waring Show | 1951 | TV Series | Herself |
| Showtime, U.S.A. | 1950 | TV Series | Herself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck | 2013 | Documentary | Daisy Werthan |
| Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Daisy Werthan (uncredited) |
| Brando | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters | 2006 | Documentary | Daisy Werthan (uncredited) |
| James Dean: Forever Young | 2005 | Documentary | Herself |
| Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star | 2003 | Video documentary short | Herself |
| Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen | 2003 | Video documentary short | Daisy Werthan (uncredited) |
| All About 'The Birds' | 2000 | Video documentary | Lydia Brenner |
| Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Alma Finley |
| Biography | 1999 | TV Series documentary | Alma Finley |
| Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Herself (uncredited) |
| 'Fried Green Tomatoes': The Moments of Discovery | 1998 | Video documentary | Herself |
| The 50th Annual Tony Awards | 1996 | TV Special | Herself |
| Inside the White House | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Herself (uncredited) |
| The 67th Annual Academy Awards | 1995 | TV Special | Herself (Memorial Tribute) |
| 100 Years at the Movies | 1994 | TV Short documentary | Herself |
| The 65th Annual Academy Awards | 1993 | TV Special | Herself |
| Oscar's Greatest Moments | 1992 | Video documentary | Herself |
| Dream On | 1992 | TV Series | |
| The 38th Annual Tony Awards | 1984 | TV Special | Herself |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1961 | TV Series | Myra Butler |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Actress | Driving Miss Daisy (1989) |
| 1991 | Crystal Award | Women in Film Crystal Awards | ||
| 1990 | Silver Berlin Bear | Berlin International Film Festival | Best Acting Team | Driving Miss Daisy (1989) |
| 1990 | BSFC Award | Boston Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Actress | Driving Miss Daisy (1989) |
| 1990 | David | David di Donatello Awards | Best Foreign Actress (Migliore Attrice Straniera) | Driving Miss Daisy (1989) |
| 1990 | Lifetime Achievement Award | ShoWest Convention, USA | ||
| 1990 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Driving Miss Daisy (1989) |
| 1990 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical | Driving Miss Daisy (1989) |
| 1989 | KCFCC Award | Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Actress | Driving Miss Daisy (1989) |
| 1988 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special | Foxfire (1987) |
| 1988 | Saturn Award | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA | Best Actress | *batteries not included (1987) |
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Motion Picture | On 8 February 1960. At 6284 Hollywood Blvd. |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special | To Dance with the White Dog (1993) |
| 1993 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Actress | Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) |
| 1992 | American Comedy Award | American Comedy Awards, USA | Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) |
| 1992 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) |
| 1992 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) |
| 1992 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | The Story Lady (1991) |
| 1990 | Saturn Award | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA | Best Actress | Cocoon: The Return (1988) |
| 1990 | American Comedy Award | American Comedy Awards, USA | Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) | Driving Miss Daisy (1989) |
| 1986 | Saturn Award | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA | Best Actress | Cocoon (1985) |
| 1963 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Supporting Actress | Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) |
| 1956 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Best Actress - Single Performance | Producers' Showcase (1954) |
2nd Place Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | NSFC Award | National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA | Best Actress | Driving Miss Daisy (1989) |
| 1989 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Actress | Driving Miss Daisy (1989) |
Known for movies
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
as Daisy Werthan
The Birds (1963)
as Lydia Brenner
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
as Ninny Threadgoode
*batteries not included (1987)
as Faye Riley