Glenda Jackson
Acting • Born 1936-05-09 – Died 2023-06-15
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.
Filmography
85 credits
Hopscotch
Movie • 1980
Isobel
Hedda
Movie • 1975
Hedda
The Romantic Englishwoman
Movie • 1975
Elizabeth
House Calls
Movie • 1978
Ann Atkinson
The Rainbow
Movie • 1989
Anna Brangwen
A Touch of Class
Movie • 1973
Vicki Allessio
The Triple Echo
Movie • 1972
Alice Charlesworth
A Murder of Quality
Movie • 1991
Alisa Brimley
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Movie • 1971
Alex Greville
Mary, Queen of Scots
Movie • 1971
Queen Elizabeth
Women in Love
Movie • 1969
Gudrun Brangwen
Salome's Last Dance
Movie • 1988
Herodias / Lady Alice
The Music Lovers
Movie • 1971
Antonina 'Nina' Milyukova
HealtH
Movie • 1980
Isabella Garnell
Beyond Therapy
Movie • 1987
Charlotte
The Great Escaper
Movie • 2023
Irene Jordan
Turtle Diary
Movie • 1985
Neaera Duncan
Blood Donors
Movie • 1981
Self
Nasty Habits
Movie • 1977
Sister Alexandra
The Incredible Sarah
Movie • 1976
Sarah Bernhardt
King of the Wind
Movie • 1990
Queen Caroline
The Patricia Neal Story
Movie • 1981
Patricia Neal
The Maids
Movie • 1975
Solange
The Pacemakers: Glenda Jackson
Movie • 1971
Self
Lost and Found
Movie • 1979
Tricia
The Return of the Soldier
Movie • 1983
Margaret Grey
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Movie • 1979
Conor MacMichael
The Tempter
Movie • 1974
Sister Geraldine
Stevie
Movie • 1978
Stevie Smith
Sakharov
Movie • 1984
Yelena Bonner
Negatives
Movie • 1968
Vivien
Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story
Movie
Horror of Darkness
Movie • 1965
Cathy
Let's Murder Vivaldi
Movie • 1968
Julie
Business as Usual
Movie • 1987
Babs Flynn
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bequest to the Nation
Movie • 1973
Lady Hamilton
Let Poland Be Poland
Movie • 1982
Self - Co-Host
The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty
Movie • 1990
Glitch the Witch (voice)
The Extra Day
Movie • 1956
Extra (uncredited)
Giro City
Movie • 1982
Sophie
The Best of Morecambe and Wise
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage)
Tell Me Lies
Movie • 1968
Glenda
The House of Bernarda Alba
Movie • 1991
Bernarda
The Boy Friend
Movie • 1971
Rita Monroe
This Sporting Life
Movie • 1963
Singer at Party (uncredited)
The Benefit of the Doubt
Movie • 1967
Self
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
Movie • 2012
Self
Doombeach
Movie • 1989
Miss Ricketts
Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me
Movie • 2017
Self
Elizabeth Is Missing
Movie • 2019
Maud Palmer Horsham
Marat/Sade
Movie • 1967
Charlotte Corday
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
Movie • 1992
Harriet Cohen
Mothering Sunday
Movie • 2021
Jane (Older)
Mothers of the Revolution
Movie • 2021
Narrator (voice)
Opus
Movie • 1967
Charlotte Corday (Marat/Sade)
Which of These Two Ladies Is He Married To?
Movie • 1967
Claire Foley
A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai
Movie • 1994
Alexandra Kollontai (voice)
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
Movie • 2025
Archive
Elizabeth R
TV • 1971
Queen Elizabeth I
So Graham Norton
TV • 1998
Self - Guest
Six Fifty-Five Special
TV • 1981
Self
The Muppet Show
TV • 1976
Self - Special Guest Star
Question Time
TV • 1979
Self - Panellist
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Dinah!
TV • 1974
Self
Have I Got News for You
TV • 1990
Self
Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
Cathy
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
TV • 1992
Self
National Geographic Specials
TV • 1965
Narrator
Midi trente
TV • 1972
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Morecambe & Wise in America
TV • 2018
Self
Trust Morecambe & Wise
TV • 2019
Self
Morecambe & Wise
TV • 1961
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Blouse and Skirt
TV • 2000
Self
Omnibus
TV • 1967
Self
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Margaret Schlegel
Film '72
TV • 1971
Self
Remembers…
TV • 2022
Strange Interlude
TV • 1988
Nina Leeds