Glenda Jackson
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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
Credits
Mothering Sunday (2021)
as Jane (Older)
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
as Queen Elizabeth
Women in Love (1969)
as Gudrun Brangwen
The Great Escaper (2023)
as Irene Jordan
The Rainbow (1989)
as Anna Brangwen
House Calls (1978)
as Ann Atkinson
Beyond Therapy (1987)
as Charlotte
Hopscotch (1980)
as Isobel
Salome's Last Dance (1988)
as Herodias / Lady Alice
Turtle Diary (1985)
as Neaera Duncan
A Touch of Class (1973)
as Vicki Allessio
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 (1967)
as Charlotte Corday
The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
as Elizabeth
The Return of the Soldier (1983)
as Margaret Grey
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
as Alex Greville
Giro City (1982)
as Sophie
This Sporting Life (1963)
as Singer at Party (uncredited)
Nasty Habits (1977)
as Sister Alexandra
The Boy Friend (1971)
as Rita Monroe
Tell Me Lies (1968)
as Glenda
HealtH (1980)
as Isabella Garnell
Mothers of the Revolution (2021)
as Narrator (voice)
King of the Wind (1990)
as Queen Caroline
Lost and Found (1979)
as Tricia
A Murder of Quality (1991)
as Alisa Brimley
Opus (1967)
as Charlotte Corday (Marat/Sade)
Elizabeth Is Missing (2019)
as Maud Palmer Horsham
The Triple Echo (1972)
as Alice Charlesworth
Business as Usual (1987)
as Babs Flynn
Bequest to the Nation (1973)
as Lady Hamilton
The Music Lovers (1971)
as Antonina 'Nina' Milyukova
Sakharov (1984)
as Yelena Bonner
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes (2011)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Class Of Miss MacMichael (1978)
as Conor MacMichael
The Incredible Sarah (1976)
as Sarah Bernhardt
Negatives (1968)
as Vivien
The Tempter (1974)
as Sister Geraldine
The Maids (1975)
as Solange
Hedda (1975)
as Hedda
Doombeach (1989)
as Miss Ricketts
Let Poland Be Poland (1982)
as Self - Co-Host
The Extra Day (1956)
as Extra (uncredited)
The Patricia Neal Story (1981)
as Patricia Neal
Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me (2017)
as Self
Stevie (1978)
as Stevie Smith
The House of Bernarda Alba (1991)
as Bernarda
Horror of Darkness (1965)
as Cathy
Let's Murder Vivaldi (1968)
as Julie
The Best of Morecambe and Wise (2001)
as Self (archive footage)
Blood Donors (1981)
as Self
Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story (—)
Actor
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders (2025)
as Archive
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil (2012)
as Self
The Benefit of the Doubt (1967)
as Self
The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty (1990)
as Glitch the Witch (voice)
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax (1992)
as Harriet Cohen
Which of These Two Ladies Is He Married To? (1967)
as Claire Foley
The Pacemakers: Glenda Jackson (1971)
as Self
A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai (1994)
as Alexandra Kollontai (voice)