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 D'ora family names in mainstream industries. In May 1931, she was encouraged to enter the Miss Germany pageant, which would in turn take her to the Miss Universe contest. She died on 12 June 2010 at the age of 97 in Munich, Germany. She was predeceased by both her children. Daisy D'ora Daisy D'ora (26 February 1913 – 12 June 2010) was a German beauty queen, socialite and actress. Born Daisy Freiin von Freyberg zu Eisenberg in Potsdam, Germany to an already impoverished aristocratic family, she began her career in silent films, performing in the 1929 film "Pandora's Box", starring Louise