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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 t…
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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.
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Glenda Jackson's Filmography
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Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
as Archive
The Great Escaper
as Irene Jordan
Mothering Sunday
as Jane (Older)
Mothers of the Revolution
as Narrator (voice)
Elizabeth Is Missing
as Maud Palmer Horsham
Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me
as Self
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
as Self
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brook by Brook
as Self
The Best of Morecambe and Wise
as Self (archive footage)
A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai
as Alexandra Kollontai (voice)
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
as Harriet Cohen
The House of Bernarda Alba
as Bernarda
A Murder of Quality
as Alisa Brimley
King of the Wind
as Queen Caroline
The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty
as Glitch the Witch (voice)
The Rainbow
as Anna Brangwen
Doombeach
as Miss Ricketts
Salome's Last Dance
as Herodias / Lady Alice
Beyond Therapy
as Charlotte
Business as Usual
as Babs Flynn
Turtle Diary
as Neaera Duncan
Sakharov
as Yelena Bonner
The Return of the Soldier
as Margaret Grey
Giro City
as Sophie
Let Poland Be Poland
as Self - Co-Host
The Patricia Neal Story
as Patricia Neal
Blood Donors
as Self
Hopscotch
as Isobel
HealtH
as Isabella Garnell
Lost and Found
as Tricia
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
as Conor MacMichael
Stevie
as Stevie Smith
House Calls
as Ann Atkinson
Nasty Habits
as Sister Alexandra
The Incredible Sarah
as Sarah Bernhardt
Hedda
as Hedda
The Romantic Englishwoman
as Elizabeth
The Maids
as Solange
The Tempter
as Sister Geraldine
A Touch of Class
as Vicki Allessio
Bequest to the Nation
as Lady Hamilton
The Triple Echo
as Alice Charlesworth
Mary, Queen of Scots
as Queen Elizabeth
The Boy Friend
as Rita Monroe
Sunday Bloody Sunday
as Alex Greville
The Music Lovers
as Antonina 'Nina' Milyukova
The Pacemakers: Glenda Jackson
as Self
Women in Love
as Gudrun Brangwen
Negatives
as Vivien
No Poster
Let's Murder Vivaldi
as Julie
Tell Me Lies
as Glenda
No Poster
Which of These Two Ladies Is He Married To?
as Claire Foley
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
as Charlotte Corday
The Benefit of the Doubt
as Self
Opus
as Charlotte Corday (Marat/Sade)
Horror of Darkness
as Cathy
This Sporting Life
as Singer at Party (uncredited)
The Extra Day
as Extra (uncredited)
