Jessica Tandy

Jessica Alice Tandy was an EnglishAmerican stage and film actress, who spent most of her 67year career in the United States. She appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV.

The youngest of three siblings, Tandy was born in Geldeston Road in Hackney, London. Her mother, Jessie Helen Horspool was the head of a school for mentally handicapped children who was from a large fenland family in Wisbech, Cambs, and her father, Harry Tandy, was a travelling salesman for a rope manufacturer. Her father died when Tandy 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 the Far East. Tandy was educated at Dame Alice Owens School in Islington. Her birth name was Jessie Alice Tandy.

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