Glenda Jackson
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 9, 1936
- Died
- June 15, 2023
- Birthplace
- Wirral, England, UK
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
Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story TBA
Actor
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders 2025
as Archive
The Great Escaper 2023
as Irene Jordan
Mothering Sunday 2021
as Jane (Older)
Mothers of the Revolution 2021
as Narrator (voice)
Elizabeth Is Missing 2019
as Maud Palmer Horsham
Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me 2017
as Self
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil 2012
as Self
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes 2011
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brook by Brook 2002
as Self
The Best of Morecambe and Wise 2001
as Self (archive footage)
A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai 1994
as Alexandra Kollontai (voice)
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax 1992
as Harriet Cohen
The House of Bernarda Alba 1991
as Bernarda
A Murder of Quality 1991
as Alisa Brimley
King of the Wind 1990
as Queen Caroline
The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty 1990
as Glitch the Witch (voice)
The Rainbow 1989
as Anna Brangwen
Doombeach 1989
as Miss Ricketts
Salome's Last Dance 1988
as Herodias / Lady Alice
Beyond Therapy 1987
as Charlotte
Business as Usual 1987
as Babs Flynn
Turtle Diary 1985
as Neaera Duncan
Sakharov 1984
as Yelena Bonner
The Return of the Soldier 1983
as Margaret Grey
Giro City 1982
as Sophie
Let Poland Be Poland 1982
as Self - Co-Host
The Patricia Neal Story 1981
as Patricia Neal
Blood Donors 1981
as Self
Hopscotch 1980
as Isobel
HealtH 1980
as Isabella Garnell
Lost and Found 1979
as Tricia
The Class Of Miss MacMichael 1978
as Conor MacMichael
Stevie 1978
as Stevie Smith
House Calls 1978
as Ann Atkinson
Nasty Habits 1977
as Sister Alexandra
The Incredible Sarah 1976
as Sarah Bernhardt
Hedda 1975
as Hedda
The Romantic Englishwoman 1975
as Elizabeth
The Maids 1975
as Solange
The Tempter 1974
as Sister Geraldine
A Touch of Class 1973
as Vicki Allessio
Bequest to the Nation 1973
as Lady Hamilton
The Triple Echo 1972
as Alice Charlesworth
Mary, Queen of Scots 1971
as Queen Elizabeth
The Boy Friend 1971
as Rita Monroe
Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971
as Alex Greville
The Music Lovers 1971
as Antonina 'Nina' Milyukova
The Pacemakers: Glenda Jackson 1971
as Self
Women in Love 1969
as Gudrun Brangwen
Negatives 1968
as Vivien
- Let's Murder Vivaldi
Let's Murder Vivaldi 1968
as Julie
Tell Me Lies 1968
as Glenda
- Which of These Two Ladies Is He Married To?
Which of These Two Ladies Is He Married To? 1967
as Claire Foley
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
as Charlotte Corday
Opus 1967
as Charlotte Corday (Marat/Sade)
The Benefit of the Doubt 1967
as Self
Horror of Darkness 1965
as Cathy
This Sporting Life 1963
as Singer at Party (uncredited)
The Extra Day 1956
as Extra (uncredited)
Credits from TMDB.