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Aliases: Glenda May Jackson

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Wirral, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 42

TV Involvements: 7


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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.

Most Famous Work

Tony Awards
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5

Tony Awards

(1956) Self - Nominee
Midi trente
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6

Midi trente

(1972) Self
The Wednesday Play
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5

The Wednesday Play

(1964) Cathy
Dinah!
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7

Dinah!

(1974) Self
The Great Escaper
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7

The Great Escaper

(2023) Irene Jordan
Elizabeth R
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7

Elizabeth R

(1971) Queen Elizabeth I
Women in Love
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7

Women in Love

(1969) Gudrun Brangwen
National Geographic Specials
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5

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Irene Jordan
2021 Jane (Older)
Narrator (voice)
2019 Maud Palmer Horsham
Self
2018 Self
2017 Self
2012 Self
2011 Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001 Self (archive footage)
1998 Self - Guest
1992 Harriet Cohen
Self
1991 Bernarda
Alisa Brimley
1990 Self
Queen Caroline
Glitch the Witch (voice)
1989 Anna Brangwen
Miss Ricketts
1988 Nina Leeds
Herodias / Lady Alice
1987 Charlotte
Babs Flynn
1985 Neaera Duncan
1984 Yelena Bonner
1983 Margaret Grey
1982 Sophie
Self
Self - Co-Host
1981 Patricia Neal
Self
Self
1980 Isobel
Isabella Garnell
1979 Self - Panellist
Tricia
Conor MacMichael
1978 Stevie Smith
Ann Atkinson
1977 Sister Alexandra
1976 Sarah Bernhardt
Self - Special Guest Star
1975 Hedda
Elizabeth
Solange
Self
1974 Sister Geraldine
Self
1973 Vicki Allessio
Lady Hamilton
1972 Alice Charlesworth
Self
1971 Queen Elizabeth
Rita Monroe
Alex Greville
Queen Elizabeth I
Nina
Self
1969 Gudrun Brangwen
1968 Vivien
Self - Guest
Julie
Glenda
1967 Charlotte Corday
Self
1965 Narrator
Cathy
1964 Cathy
1963 Singer at Party (uncredited)
1961 Self
Self
1956 N/A
Self - Winner
Self - Nominee
Extra (uncredited)
N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

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