
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.
Filmografi
Mothering Sunday2021 · Jane (Older)
The Great Escaper2023 · Irene Jordan
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 Sade1967 · Charlotte Corday
Women in Love1969 · Gudrun Brangwen
Sunday Bloody Sunday1971 · Alex Greville
The Boy Friend1971 · Rita Monroe
Negatives1968 · Vivien
Let Poland Be Poland1982 · Self - Co-Host
A Murder of Quality1991 · Alisa Brimley
Brook by Brook2002 · Self
Salome's Last Dance1988 · Herodias / Lady Alice
Hopscotch1980 · Isobel
Mothers of the Revolution2021 · Narrator (voice)
Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me2017 · Self
Mary, Queen of Scots1971 · Queen Elizabeth
A Touch of Class1973 · Vicki Allessio
The Return of the Soldier1983 · Margaret Grey
The Romantic Englishwoman1975 · Elizabeth
Blood Donors1981 · Self
Horror of Darkness1965 · Cathy
The Tempter1974 · Sister Geraldine
The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty1990 · Glitch the Witch (voice)
The Music Lovers1971 · Antonina 'Nina' Milyukova
This Sporting Life1963 · Singer at Party (uncredited)
Vladek Sheybal
Catherine Willmer
Niké Arrighi
Michael Caine
Olivia Colman
Colin Firth
Daniel Day-Lewis
Josh O'Connor
Emma D'Arcy
Simon Darwen
Oliver Reed
Donald Sumpter