Glenda Jackson

Glenda May Jackson (Birkenhead, May 9, 1936-Blackheath, London, June 15, 2023) was an award-winning British actress, double winner of the Oscar Award and the Emmy Award. He retired from acting in 1992 to devote himself to UK politics. Since 2008 she was a member of the British Parliament and belonged to the Labor Party. In 2018, Glenda managed to win a Tony Award, thus becoming the twenty-fourth person to win the "Triple Crown of Acting" in the United States, achieving an Oscar Award, the Emmy Award and the Tony Award.

Biography

He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. He made his theater debut with Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables in 1957 and became part of the Royal Shakespeare Company where his work with director Peter Brook is remembered. His first cinematographic intervention was in the film This sporting life in 1963.

Fame came to her with her role in the controversial film Women in Love in 1969, a role that earned her her first Oscar award. She later played Tchaikovsky's wife in the film The music lovers (1970) by the controversial Ken Russell.

In 1971 she starred in a television series for the BBC in which she played Queen Elizabeth I of England in the miniseries Elizabeth R, a role that earned her the Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Series Dramatic as well as Best Actress in a Miniseries.

She would return to play that role that she also played in the film Mary, Queen of Scots alongside Vanessa Redgrave, the same year.

In 1973 the actress won a second Oscar with the film A Touch of Class and in 1975 the film Hedda by Trevor Nunn, based on Hedda Gabler by Ibsen, was nominated for a third Oscar. The following year she starred in The Incredible Sarah as Sarah Bernhardt directed by Richard Fleischer.

In 1984 she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for her work in the miniseries Sakharov as Yelena Bonner and in 1991 she starred in The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca in a television movie.

In 1978 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire.

He retired from the stage in 1992 to perform his duties as a member of Parliament. Following the 1997 general election she took charge of London Transport, a position from which she resigned as she wanted to try to be elected as the Labor candidate for Mayor of London in 2000. Ultimately the election fell to Frank Dobson.

His son is the writer and journalist Dan Hodges, born in 1969.

Filmography

Cinema

Theatre (selection)

• Separate Tables1957.
• All Kinds of Men1957.
• The Idiot1962.
• Alfie1963.
• Hamlet1965.
• Marat/Sade1965.
• Three Sisters1967.
• Fanghorn1967.
• The Maids1974.
• Hedda Gabler1975.
• The White Devil1976.
• Antony and Cleopatra1979.
• Rose1981.
• Phedra1984.
• Strange Interlude1985.
• King Lear, 2017.

Awards and nominations

Oscar Awards

BAFTA Awards

Gold Globes Awards

Emmy Awards

Tony Awards

Laurence Olivier Award

San Sebastian International Film Festival