Glenda Jackson
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.
88 acting credits
Acting · 88
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Have I Got News for You
1990
Tony Awards
1956
Wogan
1982
BBC Play of the Month
1965
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Omnibus
1967
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
The Wednesday Play
1964
Question Time
1979
Dinah!
1974
Film '72
1971
Midi trente
1972
World in Action
1963
The Muppet Show
1976
Remembers…
2022
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
So Graham Norton
1998
Morecambe & Wise
1961
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
1992
Elizabeth R
1971
National Geographic Specials
1965
Six Fifty-Five Special
1981
Mothering Sunday
2021
Armchair Theatre
1956
Women in Love
1969
The Great Escaper
2023
Hopscotch
1980
Morecambe & Wise in America
2018
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
Salome's Last Dance
1988
Trust Morecambe & Wise
2019
The Return of the Soldier
1983
Turtle Diary
1985
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
HealtH
1980
A Murder of Quality
1991
A Touch of Class
1973
Lost and Found
1979
Bequest to the Nation
1973
This Sporting Life
1963
The Rainbow
1989
House Calls
1978
Elizabeth Is Missing
2019
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
King of the Wind
1990
The Triple Echo
1972
The Boy Friend
1971
Hedda
1975
The Patricia Neal Story
1981
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
2011
Nasty Habits
1977
The Music Lovers
1971
The Extra Day
1956
The Maids
1975
Mothers of the Revolution
2021
Negatives
1968
Strange Interlude
1988
Sakharov
1984
Giro City
1982
The House of Bernarda Alba
1991
Tell Me Lies
1968
Beyond Therapy
1987
The Best of Morecambe and Wise
2001
Business as Usual
1987
The Incredible Sarah
1976
The Tempter
1974
Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me
2017
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
1978
Opus
1967
Blouse and Skirt
2000
Let Poland Be Poland
1982
Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story
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Which of These Two Ladies Is He Married To?
1967
Stevie
1978
The Benefit of the Doubt
1967
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
1992
A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai
1994
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
2025
Let's Murder Vivaldi
1968
The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty
1990
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
2012
Horror of Darkness
1965
Doombeach
1989
Blood Donors
1981
The Pacemakers: Glenda Jackson
1971