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Glenda Jackson
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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 Actin…
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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.
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2023
The Great Escaper
Movie Irene Jordan
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2022
Remembers…
TV show Self
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2021
Mothering Sunday
Movie Jane (Older)
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2021
Mothers of the Revolution
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2019
Elizabeth Is Missing
Movie Maud Palmer Horsham
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2019
Trust Morecambe & Wise
TV show Self
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2018
Morecambe & Wise in America
TV show Self
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2017
Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me
Movie Self
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2012
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
Movie Self
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2011
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2002
Brook by Brook
Movie Self
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2001
The Best of Morecambe and Wise
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2000
Blouse and Skirt
TV show Self
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1998
So Graham Norton
TV show Self - Guest
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1994
A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai
Movie Alexandra Kollontai (voice)
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1992
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
Movie Harriet Cohen
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1992
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
TV show Self
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1991
The House of Bernarda Alba
Movie Bernarda
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1991
A Murder of Quality
Movie Alisa Brimley
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1990
Have I Got News for You
TV show Self
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1990
King of the Wind
Movie Queen Caroline
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1990
The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty
Movie Glitch the Witch (voice)
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1989
The Rainbow
Movie Anna Brangwen
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1989
Doombeach
Movie Miss Ricketts
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1988
Salome's Last Dance
Movie Herodias / Lady Alice
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1988
Strange Interlude
TV show Nina Leeds
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1987
Beyond Therapy
Movie Charlotte
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1987
Business as Usual
Movie Babs Flynn
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1985
Turtle Diary
Movie Neaera Duncan
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1984
Sakharov
Movie Yelena Bonner
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1983
The Return of the Soldier
Movie Margaret Grey
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1982
Giro City
Movie Sophie
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1982
Wogan
TV show Self
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1982
Let Poland Be Poland
Movie Self - Co-Host
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1982
American Playhouse
TV show Nina Leeds
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1981
The Patricia Neal Story
Movie Patricia Neal
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1981
Six Fifty-Five Special
TV show Self
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1981
Blood Donors
Movie Self
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1980
Hopscotch
Movie Isobel
