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Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy was an English American actress well known for her role in Broadway's 'Foxfire' and her Oscar-winning performance in the film 'Driving Miss Daisy.'

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Jessica Tandy was an English-born U.S. actress, well known for her role in Broadway's Foxfire and her Oscar-winning performance in Driving Miss Daisy (1989). Tandy was the original Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, for which she won a Tony Award. She was married to actor Hume Cronyn and starred opposite him in a number of films, including The Gin Game (1977) and Cocoon (1985).

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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 02: Ranking member U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) questions U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as he testifies at a hearing on receiving 'the Monetary Policy Report to the Congress required under the Humphrey-Hawkins Act' at the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 2, 2011 in Washington, DC. Bernanke reportedly defended the Federal Reserves monetary policy against criticism from Republicans. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Getty Images)

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