Known For
Acting
Born
May 09, 1936
Died
Jun 15, 2023
Place of Birth
Wirral, England, UK
Credits
90 titles
Glenda Jackson
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
Archive
The Great Escaper
Irene Jordan
Remembers…
Self
Mothering Sunday
Jane (Older)
Mothers of the Revolution
Narrator (voice)
Elizabeth Is Missing
Maud Palmer Horsham
Trust Morecambe & Wise
Self
Morecambe & Wise in America
Self
Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me
Self
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
Self
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Best of Morecambe and Wise
Self (archive footage)
Blouse and Skirt
Self
So Graham Norton
Self - Guest
A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai
Alexandra Kollontai (voice)
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
Harriet Cohen
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
Self
The House of Bernarda Alba
Bernarda
A Murder of Quality
Alisa Brimley
Have I Got News for You
Self
King of the Wind
Queen Caroline
The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty
Glitch the Witch (voice)
The Rainbow
Anna Brangwen
Doombeach
Miss Ricketts
Salome's Last Dance
Herodias / Lady Alice
Strange Interlude
Nina Leeds
Beyond Therapy
Charlotte
Business as Usual
Babs Flynn
Turtle Diary
Neaera Duncan
Sakharov
Yelena Bonner
The Return of the Soldier
Margaret Grey
Giro City
Sophie
Wogan
Self
Let Poland Be Poland
Self - Co-Host
American Playhouse
Nina Leeds
The Patricia Neal Story
Patricia Neal
Six Fifty-Five Special
Self
Blood Donors
Self
Hopscotch
Isobel
HealtH
Isabella Garnell
Question Time
Self - Panellist
Lost and Found
Tricia
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Conor MacMichael
Stevie
Stevie Smith
House Calls
Ann Atkinson
Nasty Habits
Sister Alexandra
The Incredible Sarah
Sarah Bernhardt
The Muppet Show
Self - Special Guest Star
Hedda
Hedda
The Romantic Englishwoman
Elizabeth