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
Jessica Lynch (Miss New York) help others going through similar experiences. Lynch married David Renzi, took his surname and had two sons. As of 2008, she teaches at the In Motion School of Dance, and co-organized the Miss Northern New York 2008 pageant. Jessica Lynch (Miss New York) Jessica Lynch Renzi held the title of Miss New York in 2003 and competed in the Miss America 2004 pageant. Lynch competed in the Miss New York pageant as Miss New York City. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Theater. Her talent was ballet and she began her formal ballet training at