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
1961
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Golden Globe Awards
1944
0Tony Awards
1956
0Tony Awards
1956
Have I Got News for You
1990
Wogan
1982
American Playhouse
1982
The Wednesday Play
1964
The Wednesday Play
1964
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Filmography
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self · 1961
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest · 1968
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee · 1944
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee · 1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner · 1956
Have I Got News for You
as Self · 1990
Wogan
as Self · 1982
American Playhouse
as Nina Leeds · 1982
The Wednesday Play
as Cathy · 1964
The Wednesday Play
as Julie · 1964
BBC Play of the Month
as Margaret Schlegel · 1965
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self · 1975
Question Time
as Self - Panellist · 1979
Midi trente
as Self · 1972
Dinah!
as Self · 1974
Omnibus
as Self · 1967
Film '72
as Self · 1971
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
as Marina Palek · 1969
World in Action
· 1963
The Muppet Show
as Self - Special Guest Star · 1976
Morecambe & Wise
as Self · 1961
So Graham Norton
as Self - Guest · 1998
Remembers…
as Self · 2022
Mothering Sunday
as Jane (Older) · 2021
Six Fifty-Five Special
as Self · 1981
Half Hour Story
as Claire Foley · 1967
Elizabeth R
as Queen Elizabeth I · 1971
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
as Self · 1992
National Geographic Specials
as Narrator · 1965
The Great Escaper
as Irene Jordan · 2023
Armchair Theatre
· 1956
Women in Love
as Gudrun Brangwen · 1969
Mary, Queen of Scots
as Queen Elizabeth · 1971
A Touch of Class
as Vicki Allessio · 1973
Strange Interlude
as Nina Leeds · 1988
Morecambe & Wise in America
as Self · 2018
This Sporting Life
as Singer at Party (uncredited) · 1963
Salome's Last Dance
as Herodias / Lady Alice · 1988
The Romantic Englishwoman
as Elizabeth · 1975
Sunday Bloody Sunday
as Alex Greville · 1971
Hopscotch
as Isobel · 1980
Mothers of the Revolution
as Narrator (voice) · 2021
The Music Lovers
as Antonina 'Nina' Milyukova · 1971
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
as Charlotte Corday · 1967
The Boy Friend
as Rita Monroe · 1971
The Return of the Soldier
as Margaret Grey · 1983
Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story
A Murder of Quality
as Alisa Brimley · 1991
Lost and Found
as Tricia · 1979
King of the Wind
as Queen Caroline · 1990
Beyond Therapy
as Charlotte · 1987
The Patricia Neal Story
as Patricia Neal · 1981
Elizabeth Is Missing
as Maud Palmer Horsham · 2019
Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me
as Self · 2017
Let Poland Be Poland
as Self - Co-Host · 1982
Trust Morecambe & Wise
as Self · 2019
The Triple Echo
as Alice Charlesworth · 1972
House Calls
as Ann Atkinson · 1978
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2011
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
as Conor MacMichael · 1978
The Rainbow
as Anna Brangwen · 1989
The House of Bernarda Alba
as Bernarda · 1991
Nasty Habits
as Sister Alexandra · 1977
Tell Me Lies
as Glenda · 1968
HealtH
as Isabella Garnell · 1980
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
as Self · 2012
Bequest to the Nation
as Lady Hamilton · 1973
Sakharov
as Yelena Bonner · 1984
Turtle Diary
as Neaera Duncan · 1985
The Tempter
as Sister Geraldine · 1974
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
as Archive · 2025
Negatives
as Vivien · 1968
The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty
as Glitch the Witch (voice) · 1990
Business as Usual
as Babs Flynn · 1987
Blouse and Skirt
as Self · 2000
The Incredible Sarah
as Sarah Bernhardt · 1976
The Maids
as Solange · 1975
Which of These Two Ladies Is He Married To?
as Claire Foley · 1967
The Best of Morecambe and Wise
as Self (archive footage) · 2001
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
as Harriet Cohen · 1992
The Benefit of the Doubt
as Self · 1967
Horror of Darkness
as Cathy · 1965
Hedda
as Hedda · 1975
The Extra Day
as Extra (uncredited) · 1956
Brook by Brook
as Self · 2002
Opus
as Charlotte Corday (Marat/Sade) · 1967
Let's Murder Vivaldi
as Julie · 1968
Blood Donors
as Self · 1981
Stevie
as Stevie Smith · 1978
Giro City
as Sophie · 1982
A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai
as Alexandra Kollontai (voice) · 1994
The Pacemakers: Glenda Jackson
as Self · 1971
Doombeach
as Miss Ricketts · 1989