Driving Miss Daisy (play) for a 1989 film of the same name starring Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman and Dan Aykroyd. All three actors were nominated for Academy Awards, with Tandy winning the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film received nine nominations total, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Uhry also won an Academy Award for his screenplay. Driving Miss Daisy (play) Driving Miss Daisy is a play by American playwright Alfred Uhry, about the relationship of an elderly white Southern Jewish woman, Daisy Werthan, and her African-American chauffeur, Hoke Coleburn, from 1948 to 1973. The play was the first in Uhry's
Daisy Lewis Vic, the Hampstead Theatre, the Sheffield Crucible, and the Soho Theatre. Lewis' television career started in "After You've Gone", the "Gridlock" episode of "Doctor Who", "Lewis", "From Time to Time", and "Pusher". She then joined "Downton Abbey" as local schoolteacher Miss Sarah Bunting and also played opposite Michael Gambon and Lindsay Duncan in "Churchill's Secret". Daisy Lewis Daisy Lewis is a British actress and producer. Lewis was educated at Port Regis School in Shaftesbury, Dorset, followed by DLD College in London. She then attended King's College London, where she studied English literature. Before attending university, she wrote for "The Sunday