Person Details

Birthday: 1936-05-09 00:06:11

Aliases: Glenda May Jackson

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Birkenhead, Wirral, England

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Movie Involvements: 38

TV Involvements: 6


Most Famous Work

Biography

Glenda May Jackson (born 9 May 1936) is an English actress and politician. A professional actress from the late 1950s onwards, Jackson spent four years as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964, and was particularly associated with the work of director Peter Brook. She has won two Academy Awards for Best Actress: for Women in Love (1970) and A Touch of Class (1973). She has also won awards for her performances as Alex in the film Sunday Bloody Sunday and in the BBC television serial Elizabeth R (both 1971); receiving two Primetime Emmy Awards for the latter. In 2018, Jackson won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in a revival of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, and is thus one of the few performers to have achieved the "triple crown of acting". Jackson has also had a career in politics, which began in 1992, when she was elected as the Labour Party MP for Hampstead and Highgate. Early in the government of Tony Blair, she served as a junior transport minister from 1997 to 1999, later becoming critical of Blair. After constituency-boundary changes, from 2010 she represented Hampstead and Kilburn. At the general election in that year, her majority of 42 votes was one of the closest results of the entire election. She announced in 2011 that she would stand down at the 2015 general election. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glenda Jackson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

The Wednesday Play
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4

The Wednesday Play

(1964) Cathy
Midi trente
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6

Midi trente

(1972) Self
Tony Awards
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5

Tony Awards

(1956) Self - Nominee
Dinah!
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6

Dinah!

(1974) Self
Mothering Sunday
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5

Mothering Sunday

(2021) Jane (Older)
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
Sunday Bloody Sunday
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7

Sunday Bloody Sunday

(1971) Alex Greville

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Irene Jordan
2021 Jane (Older)
Narrator (voice)
2019 Maud Palmer Horsham
Self
2018 Self
2017 Self
2012 Self
1998 Self - Guest
1992 Harriet Cohen
Self
1991 Bernarda
Alisa Brimley
1990 Self
Queen Caroline
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
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 Elizabeth
Solange
Self
Hedda
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 Cathy
1964 Cathy
1963 Singer at Party (uncredited)
1961 Self
Self
1956 N/A
Self - Nominee
Self - Winner
N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

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