Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson

  • Birthday: 1936-05-09
  • Deathday: 2023-06-15
  • Place of birth: Wirral, England, UK
  • Also know as: Glenda May 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glenda Jackson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Hedda

1975

As Hedda

The Romantic Englishwoman

1975

As Elizabeth

The Triple Echo

1972

As Alice Charlesworth

Salome's Last Dance

1988

As Herodias / Lady Alice

Turtle Diary

1985

As Neaera Duncan

Nasty Habits

1977

As Sister Alexandra

The Incredible Sarah

1976

As Sarah Bernhardt

The Patricia Neal Story

1981

As Patricia Neal

The Maids

1975

As Solange

The Class Of Miss MacMichael

1979

As Conor MacMichael

Stevie

1978

As Stevie Smith

Business as Usual

1987

As Babs Flynn

Giro City

1982

As Sophie

Bequest to the Nation

1973

As Lady Hamilton

The Tempter

1974

As Sister Geraldine

Doombeach

1989

As Miss Ricketts

Elizabeth Is Missing

2019

As Maud Palmer Horsham

Mothers of the Revolution

2021

As Narrator (voice)

Strange Interlude

1988

As Nina Leeds

Blood Donors

1981

As Self

Hopscotch

1980

As Isobel

A Touch of Class

1973

As Vicki Allessio

Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971

As Alex Greville

Mary, Queen of Scots

1971

As Queen Elizabeth

The Music Lovers

1971

As Nina

King of the Wind

1990

As Queen Caroline

Lost and Found

1979

As Tricia

Sakharov

1984

As Yelena Bonner

The Return of the Soldier

1983

As Margaret Grey

Horror of Darkness

1965

As Cathy

Let's Murder Vivaldi

1968

As Julie

The Secret Life of Arnold Bax

1992

As Harriet Cohen

The Great Escaper

2023

As Irene Jordan

A Murder of Quality

1991

As Alisa Brimley

Women in Love

1969

As Gudrun Brangwen

Beyond Therapy

1987

As Charlotte

HealtH

1980

As Isabella Garnell

Negatives

1968

As Vivien

Marat/Sade

1967

As Charlotte Corday

Let Poland Be Poland

1982

As Self - Co-Host

House Calls

1978

As Ann Atkinson

The Rainbow

1989

As Anna Brangwen

Mothering Sunday

2021

As Jane (Older)

Tell Me Lies

1968

As Glenda

The Boy Friend

1971

As Rita Monroe

This Sporting Life

1963

As Singer at Party (uncredited)

Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes

2011

As Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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