Glenda Jackson
Date of birth: 1936-05-09
Place of birth: Wirral, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Glenda May Jackson
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glenda Jackson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Hopscotch
1980-09-26
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to r
Hedda
1975-12-19
Returning from her honeymoon with her husband, scholar Jorgen, the cold and manipulative Hedda Gable
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975-06-11
A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return w
House Calls
1978-03-15
Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with on
The Rainbow
1989-05-05
Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beaut
A Touch of Class
1973-05-25
Steve, a happily married American man living in London meets Vicki, an English divorcée and run off
The Triple Echo
1972-11-16
After her husband is captured during WWII, homesteader Alice is forced to maintain their land hersel
A Murder of Quality
1991-10-04
At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the mu
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971-07-01
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artis
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971-12-22
Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catho
Women in Love
1969-09-13
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters
Salome's Last Dance
1988-05-06
London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lov
The Music Lovers
1971-02-12
Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies
HealtH
1980-09-12
At a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual convent
Beyond Therapy
1987-02-27
Manhattanites Bruce and Prudence are each looking for a meaningful romantic relationship and have be
Strange Interlude
1988-07-13
Adaptation of an experimental play in nine acts by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Strange Inter
The Great Escaper
2023-10-06
In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniver
Turtle Diary
1985-12-06
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their
Blood Donors
1981-01-01
"You told me you'd take me to Hollywood!" cries Glenda - but Ernie quips, "No, Cricklewood". Thus th
Nasty Habits
1977-01-28
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and
The Incredible Sarah
1976-11-05
The legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt's unconventional life and career are examined in this biopic.
King of the Wind
1990-05-25
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil a
The Patricia Neal Story
1981-12-08
The dramatic account of actress Patricia Neal's miraculous recovery from a near-fatal stroke in 1966
The Maids
1975-04-21
A film version of Genet's play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they
The Pacemakers: Glenda Jackson
1971-01-01
Central Office of Information profile of actress, Glenda Jackson discussing her roles in Sunday, Blo
Lost and Found
1979-07-13
While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced Briti
The Return of the Soldier
1983-01-06
The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
1979-01-27
A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative schoo
The Tempter
1974-11-22
A young writer is invited to stay in a religious hostel run by a sinister, manipulative nun who play
Stevie
1978-09-15
For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional l
Sakharov
1984-06-20
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil ri
Negatives
1968-09-05
A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.
Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story
A documentary on John Schlesinger and Michael Childers.
Horror of Darkness
1965-03-10
A studio-based drama by John Hopkins focusing on a trio of people at the point of crisis, with an un
Let's Murder Vivaldi
1968-04-10
Two couples let tensions build between them in this 'Wednesday Play'.
Business as Usual
1987-01-01
After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
2011-01-01
A history of the British television comedy double act Morecambe & Wise to coincide with the BBC dram
Bequest to the Nation
1973-04-18
Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson an
Let Poland Be Poland
1982-01-31
Broadcast live via satellite around the world on January 31, 1982, this special produced by the US I
The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty
1990-01-01
Humpty was an overgrown, misunderstood egg. But one day, he ended up in the right place at the right
The Extra Day
1956-01-01
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various perf
Giro City
1982-11-01
Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth ce
The Best of Morecambe and Wise
2001-10-01
Compilation of sketches featuring the much-loved funnymen Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Includes 'A
Tell Me Lies
1968-02-02
Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’
The House of Bernarda Alba
1991-12-18
A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close wat
The Boy Friend
1971-12-16
When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager i
This Sporting Life
1963-02-07
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become a
The Benefit of the Doubt
1967-01-02
A documentary following US, Peter Brook's experimental play about the moral issues surrounding the V
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
2012-01-14
Following the recent death of Ken Russell, Alan Yentob looks back over the career of the flamboyant
Doombeach
1989-01-01
A young boy dies after swimming at a seaside resort, and the local children, led by Gavin, investiga
Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me
2017-01-01
Eric and Ernie devotee Miranda Hart celebrates the incomparable comedy duo as she takes a look back
Elizabeth Is Missing
2019-12-08
Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threat
Marat/Sade
1967-02-22
In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the pat
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
1992-11-22
A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.
Mothering Sunday
2021-11-12
On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mother'
Mothers of the Revolution
2021-10-07
On 5th September 1981, a group of women came together to change the world. These women marched from
Opus
1967-01-02
Impressions of contemporary British arts and fashion. Summary of art through the ages taking in ever
Which of These Two Ladies Is He Married To?
1967-07-12
A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai
1994-06-01
A look at the life of the Russian revolutionary Marxist Alexandra Kollontai
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
2025-06-17
Peter Medak's films toy with notions of cosplay, masquerade, gamesmanship, and how power and permiss