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Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 9, 1936
Died
June 15, 2023
Place of Birth
Wirral, England, UK
Also Known As
- Glenda May Jackson
Glenda Jackson
0.8 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Archive
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
2025
6.6
Irene Jordan
The Great Escaper
2023
5.4
Jane (Older)
Mothering Sunday
2021
7.4
Narrator (voice)
Mothers of the Revolution
2021
7.3
Maud Palmer Horsham
Elizabeth Is Missing
2019
7.8
Self
Trust Morecambe & Wise
2019
0.0
Self
Morecambe & Wise in America
2018
1.0
Self
Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me
2017
8.0
Self
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
2012
0.0
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
2011
Credits
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
as Archive
2025
10.0
The Great Escaper
as Irene Jordan
2023
6.6
Mothering Sunday
as Jane (Older)
2021
5.4
Mothers of the Revolution
as Narrator (voice)
2021
7.4
Elizabeth Is Missing
as Maud Palmer Horsham
2019
7.3
Trust Morecambe & Wise
as Self
2019
7.8
Morecambe & Wise in America
as Self
2018
0.0
Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me
as Self
2017
1.0
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
as Self
2012
8.0
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2011
0.0
The Best of Morecambe and Wise
as Self (archive footage)
2001
0.0
🎬
Blouse and Skirt
as Self
2000
0.0
So Graham Norton
as Self - Guest
1998
6.3
A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai
as Alexandra Kollontai (voice)
1994
8.0
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
as Harriet Cohen
1992
6.0
🎬
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
as Self
1992
5.0
The House of Bernarda Alba
as Bernarda
1991
0.0
A Murder of Quality
as Alisa Brimley
1991
5.4
Have I Got News for You
as Self
1990
7.1
King of the Wind
as Queen Caroline
1990
6.4
The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty
as Glitch the Witch (voice)
1990
0.0
The Rainbow
as Anna Brangwen
1989
5.6
Doombeach
as Miss Ricketts
1989
8.0
Strange Interlude
as Nina Leeds
1988
5.0
Salome's Last Dance
as Herodias / Lady Alice
1988
6.1
Beyond Therapy
as Charlotte
1987
3.7
Business as Usual
as Babs Flynn
1987
6.0
Turtle Diary
as Neaera Duncan
1985
6.2
Sakharov
as Yelena Bonner
1984
7.0
The Return of the Soldier
as Margaret Grey
1983
6.2
Giro City
as Sophie
1982
5.0
Wogan
as Self
1982
4.5
Let Poland Be Poland
as Self - Co-Host
1982
0.0
The Patricia Neal Story
as Patricia Neal
1981
5.0
Six Fifty-Five Special
as Self
1981
0.0
Blood Donors
as Self
1981
0.0
Hopscotch
as Isobel
1980
7.0
HealtH
as Isabella Garnell
1980
5.2
Question Time
as Self - Panellist
1979
5.5
Lost and Found
as Tricia
1979
5.8
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
as Conor MacMichael
1979
4.8
Stevie
as Stevie Smith
1978
6.9
House Calls
as Ann Atkinson
1978
6.3
Nasty Habits
as Sister Alexandra
1977
4.6
The Incredible Sarah
as Sarah Bernhardt
1976
5.0
The Muppet Show
as Self - Special Guest Star
1976
8.0
Hedda
as Hedda
1975
5.9
The Romantic Englishwoman
as Elizabeth
1975
5.4
The Maids
as Solange
1975
5.2
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
The Tempter
as Sister Geraldine
1974
5.1
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
A Touch of Class
as Vicki Allessio
1973
6.0
Bequest to the Nation
as Lady Hamilton
1973
5.7
The Triple Echo
as Alice Charlesworth
1972
5.6
🎬
Midi trente
as Self
1972
6.0
Mary, Queen of Scots
as Queen Elizabeth
1971
6.6
The Boy Friend
as Rita Monroe
1971
6.5
🎬
Film '72
as Self
1971
4.7
Sunday Bloody Sunday
as Alex Greville
1971
6.6
Elizabeth R
as Queen Elizabeth I
1971
7.4
The Music Lovers
as Antonina 'Nina' Milyukova
1971
6.5
The Pacemakers: Glenda Jackson
as Self
1971
0.0
Women in Love
as Gudrun Brangwen
1969
6.5
Negatives
as Vivien
1968
5.7
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
🎬
Let's Murder Vivaldi
as Julie
1968
0.0
Tell Me Lies
as Glenda
1968
6.3
Omnibus
as Self
1967
7.2
🎬
Which of These Two Ladies Is He Married To?
as Claire Foley
1967
0.0
Marat/Sade
as Charlotte Corday
1967
6.1
The Benefit of the Doubt
as Self
1967
6.3
Opus
as Charlotte Corday (Marat/Sade)
1967
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Margaret Schlegel
1965
5.0
National Geographic Specials
as Narrator
1965
6.9
Horror of Darkness
as Cathy
1965
0.0
The Wednesday Play
as Cathy
1964
4.5
This Sporting Life
as Singer at Party (uncredited)
1963
7.0
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Morecambe & Wise
as Self
1961
6.5
Armchair Theatre
1956
5.8
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
The Extra Day
as Extra (uncredited)
1956
6.6
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story
N/A
0.0