1936-05-09 ( 88 years old ) in 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.
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Movies
The Great Escaper
2023-10-06
Mothering Sunday
2021-11-12
Mothers of the Revolution
2021-10-07
Elizabeth Is Missing
2019-12-08
Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me
2017-01-01
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
2012-01-14
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
2011-01-01
The Best of Morecambe and Wise
2001-10-01
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
1992-11-22
The House of Bernarda Alba
1991-12-18
A Murder of Quality
1991-10-04
King of the Wind
1990-05-25
The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty
1990-01-01
The Rainbow
1989-05-05
Doombeach
1989-01-01
Strange Interlude
1988-07-13
Salome's Last Dance
1988-05-06
Beyond Therapy
1987-02-27
Business as Usual
1987-01-01
Turtle Diary
1985-12-06
Sakharov
1984-06-20
The Return of the Soldier
1983-01-06
Giro City
1982-11-01
Let Poland Be Poland
1982-01-31
The Patricia Neal Story
1981-12-08
Blood Donors
1981-01-01
Hopscotch
1980-09-26
HealtH
1980-09-12
Lost and Found
1979-07-13
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
1979-01-27
Stevie
1978-09-15
House Calls
1978-03-15
Nasty Habits
1977-01-28
The Incredible Sarah
1976-11-05
Hedda
1975-12-19
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975-06-11
The Maids
1975-04-21
The Tempter
1974-11-22
A Touch of Class
1973-05-25
Bequest to the Nation
1973-04-18
The Triple Echo
1972-11-16
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971-12-22
The Boy Friend
1971-12-16
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971-07-01
The Music Lovers
1971-02-12
The Pacemakers: Glenda Jackson
1971-01-01
Women in Love
1969-09-13
Negatives
1968-09-05
Let's Murder Vivaldi
1968-04-10
Tell Me Lies
1968-02-02
Which of These Two Ladies Is He Married To?
1967-07-12
Marat/Sade
1967-02-22
The Benefit of the Doubt
1967-01-02
Opus
1967-01-02
Horror of Darkness
1965-03-10
This Sporting Life
1963-02-07
The Extra Day
1956-01-01
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