Glenda Jackson

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.

Known For

The Mike Douglas Show

Golden Globe Awards

Tony Awards

Tony Awards

Have I Got News for You

Wogan

BBC Play of the Month

The Dick Cavett Show

All Movies (59)

• Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders2025 · as Archive
• The Great Escaper2023 · as Irene Jordan
• Mothering Sunday2021 · as Jane (Older)
• Mothers of the Revolution2021 · as Narrator (voice)
• Elizabeth Is Missing2019 · as Maud Palmer Horsham
• Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me2017 · as Self
• Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil2012 · as Self
• Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes2011 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Best of Morecambe and Wise2001 · as Self (archive footage)
• A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai1994 · as Alexandra Kollontai (voice)
• The Secret Life of Arnold Bax1992 · as Harriet Cohen
• The House of Bernarda Alba1991 · as Bernarda
• A Murder of Quality1991 · as Alisa Brimley
• King of the Wind1990 · as Queen Caroline
• The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty1990 · as Glitch the Witch (voice)
• The Rainbow1989 · as Anna Brangwen
• Doombeach1989 · as Miss Ricketts
• Salome's Last Dance1988 · as Herodias / Lady Alice
• Beyond Therapy1987 · as Charlotte
• Business as Usual1987 · as Babs Flynn
• Turtle Diary1985 · as Neaera Duncan
• Sakharov1984 · as Yelena Bonner
• The Return of the Soldier1983 · as Margaret Grey
• Giro City1982 · as Sophie
• Let Poland Be Poland1982 · as Self - Co-Host
• The Patricia Neal Story1981 · as Patricia Neal
• Blood Donors1981 · as Self
• Hopscotch1980 · as Isobel
• HealtH1980 · as Isabella Garnell
• Lost and Found1979 · as Tricia
• The Class Of Miss MacMichael1978 · as Conor MacMichael
• Stevie1978 · as Stevie Smith
• House Calls1978 · as Ann Atkinson
• Nasty Habits1977 · as Sister Alexandra
• The Incredible Sarah1976 · as Sarah Bernhardt
• Hedda1975 · as Hedda
• The Romantic Englishwoman1975 · as Elizabeth
• The Maids1975 · as Solange
• The Tempter1974 · as Sister Geraldine
• A Touch of Class1973 · as Vicki Allessio
• Bequest to the Nation1973 · as Lady Hamilton
• The Triple Echo1972 · as Alice Charlesworth
• Mary, Queen of Scots1971 · as Queen Elizabeth
• The Boy Friend1971 · as Rita Monroe
• Sunday Bloody Sunday1971 · as Alex Greville
• The Music Lovers1971 · as Antonina 'Nina' Milyukova
• The Pacemakers: Glenda Jackson1971 · as Self
• Women in Love1969 · as Gudrun Brangwen
• Negatives1968 · as Vivien
• Let's Murder Vivaldi1968 · as Julie
• Tell Me Lies1968 · as Glenda
• 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 Sade1967 · as Charlotte Corday
• The Benefit of the Doubt1967 · as Self
• Opus1967 · as Charlotte Corday (Marat/Sade)
• Horror of Darkness1965 · as Cathy
• This Sporting Life1963 · as Singer at Party (uncredited)
• The Extra Day1956 · as Extra (uncredited)
• Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story—

All TV Shows (32)

• Remembers…2022 · as Self
• Trust Morecambe & Wise2019 · as Self
• Morecambe & Wise in America2018 · as Self
• Blouse and Skirt2000 · as Self
• So Graham Norton1998 · as Self - Guest
• Terry Wogan's Friday Night1992 · as Self
• Have I Got News for You1990 · as Self
• Strange Interlude1988 · as Nina Leeds
• Wogan1982 · as Self
• Six Fifty-Five Special1981 · as Self
• Question Time1979 · as Self - Panellist
• The Muppet Show1976 · as Self - Special Guest Star
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche1975 · as Self
• Dinah!1974 · as Self
• Midi trente1972 · as Self
• Film '721971 · as Self
• Elizabeth R1971 · as Queen Elizabeth I
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre1969 · as Marina Palek
• The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest
• Omnibus1967 · as Self
• Half Hour Story1967 · as Claire Foley
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Margaret Schlegel
• National Geographic Specials1965 · as Narrator
• The Wednesday Play1964 · as Cathy
• The Wednesday Play1964 · as Julie
• World in Action1963
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self
• Morecambe & Wise1961 · as Self
• Armchair Theatre1956
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Nominee
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Winner
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Nominee