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Glenda Jackson

Known for: Acting

Born 09/05/1936

Died 2023-06-15

Place of birth Wirral, England, UK

Glenda May Jackson CBE (9 May 1936, Birkenhead, Cheshire – 15 June 2023) was an English actress and politician. She was one of the few artists to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, having won two Academy Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. She was made a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1978. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice: for her roles in Women in Love (1970) and A Touch of Class (1973). She won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971). Her other notable roles include Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), Hedda (1975), The Incredible Sarah (1976) and Hopscotch (1980). She won two Primetime Emmy Awards for her role as Elizabeth I in the BBC series Elizabeth R (1971). She received the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for her role in Elizabeth Is Missing (2019). Jackson studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). She made her Broadway debut in Marat/Sade (1966). She received five Laurence Olivier Award nominations for her West End roles in Stevie (1977), Antony and Cleopatra (1979), Rose (1980), Strange Interlude (1984) and King Lear (2016), the later being her first role after a 25 year absence from acting, which she reprised on Broadway in 2019. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in the revival of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women (2018). Jackson took a hiatus from acting to take on a career in politics from 1992 to 2015, and was elected as the Labour Party MP for Hampstead and Highgate in the 1992 general election. She served as a junior transport minister from 1997 to 1999 during the government of Tony Blair, later becoming critical of Blair. After constituency boundary changes, she represented Hampstead and Kilburn from 2010. At the 2010 general election, her majority of 42 votes, confirmed after a recount, was the narrowest of that parliament. Jackson stood down at the 2015 general election and returned to acting.

Filmography

Series ★ 5,8

The Mike Douglas Show

Self

1961

Series ★ 5,3

Wogan

Self

1982

Series ★ 7,2

Have I Got News for You

Self

1990

Series ★ 7,0

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee

1944

Series ★ 7,0

World in Action

1963

Series ★ 5,2

The Wednesday Play

Cathy

1964

Series ★ 5,2

The Wednesday Play

Julie

1964

Series

Tony Awards

Self - Nominee

1956

Series

Tony Awards

Self - Winner

1956

Series ★ 6,8

The Dick Cavett Show

Self - Guest

1968

Series ★ 7,2

Omnibus

Self

1967

Series ★ 5,9

Question Time

Self - Panellist

1979

Series ★ 6,6

American Playhouse

Nina Leeds

1982

Series ★ 5,3

BBC Play of the Month

Margaret Schlegel

1965

Series ★ 4,7

Film '72

Self

1971

Series ★ 7,0

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Marina Palek

1969

Series ★ 7,0

Remembers…

Self

2022

Series ★ 6,0

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Self

1975

Series ★ 8,0

The Muppet Show

Self - Special Guest Star

1976

Series ★ 6,0

Midi trente

Self

1972

Series ★ 7,0

Dinah!

Self

1974

Series ★ 6,5

Morecambe & Wise

Self

1961

Film ★ 5,4

Mothering Sunday

Jane (Older)

2021

Series ★ 7,1

National Geographic Specials

Narrator

1965

Series

Six Fifty-Five Special

Self

1981

Series ★ 7,4

So Graham Norton

Self - Guest

1998

Series ★ 7,5

Half Hour Story

Claire Foley

1967

Series ★ 7,5

Elizabeth R

Queen Elizabeth I

1971

Film ★ 6,6

The Great Escaper

Irene Jordan

2023

Film ★ 6,6

Women in Love

Gudrun Brangwen

1969

Series ★ 6,5

Terry Wogan's Friday Night

Self

1992

Film ★ 7,0

Hopscotch

Isobel

1980

Film ★ 6,5

The Boy Friend

Rita Monroe

1971

Film ★ 6,7

Mary, Queen of Scots

Queen Elizabeth

1971

Film ★ 6,6

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Alex Greville

1971

Series ★ 7,0

Strange Interlude

Nina Leeds

1988

Film ★ 7,0

This Sporting Life

Singer at Party (uncredited)

1963

Film ★ 6,0

A Touch of Class

Vicki Allessio

1973

Film ★ 6,2

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Charlotte Corday

1967