Glenda Jackson

Acting

Born 1936-05-09 Died 2023-06-15 Wirral, England, UK 90 credits Academy Awards 2 Primetime Emmy Awards 2 BAFTA Awards 1 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play 1 Drama League Award 1 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress 1 Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1

Awards

Won 2 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 2 won · 2 nominated

1976 Best Actress Nominated Hedda
1974 Best Actress Won A Touch of Class
1972 Best Actress Nominated Sunday, Bloody Sunday
1971 Best Actress Won Women in Love

Primetime Emmy Awards 2 won

1972 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Won Elizabeth R
1972 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Won Elizabeth R

BAFTA Awards 1 won

— Best Actress in a Leading Role Won

Tony Awards 4 nominated

1988 Best Actress in a Play Nominated
1985 Best Actress in a Play Nominated
1981 Best Actress in a Play Nominated
1966 Best Featured Actress in a Play Nominated

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play 1 won

— Outstanding Actress in a Play Won

Drama League Award 1 won

— Drama League Award Won

Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress 1 won

— Best Actress Won

Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1 won

1978 Commander of the Order of the British Empire Won

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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.