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Glenda Jackson
Glenda May Jackson was an English actress and politician. Over the course of her distinguished career she received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting." Her other accolades include two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award. A member of the Labour Party, she served continuous…
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entertainment · English actress and politician (1936–2023) · film actor · stage actor · actor · politician · also Glenda Jackson, Jackson
Born 9 May 1936 · Died 15 June 2023 · Q182408
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2023· 1 entry
2022· 1 entry
“I just wish Keir would get someone to help him develop his voice.”
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2019· 1 entry
After a 27-year absence, Jackson returned to television drama, portraying an elderly grandmother struggling with dementia in Elizabeth Is Missing on BBC One, based on the novel of the same name by Emma Healey, for which
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2018· 1 entry
Jackson returned to Broadway in a revival of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women acting alongside Laurie Metcalf and Allison Pill
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2016· 1 entry
That she had been "happily single for decades"
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2015· 1 entry
Jackson returned to acting following a 23-year absence, having retired from politics
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2011· 1 entry
Had to repay more than £8,000 in expenses she had wrongly claimed
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2010· 2 entries
Lasted until 2015, she would not seek re-election
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Career landmark: member of the 55th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2010–2015).
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2005· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the 54th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2005–2010).
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Following the establishment of a purpose-built site for students
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2003· 1 entry
Surrounding the reasons for going to war in Iraq and the death of government adviser David Kelly
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2001· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 53rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (2001–2005).
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1999· 1 entry
Before an unsuccessful attempt to be nominated as the Labour candidate for the election of the first mayor of London in the 2000 London mayoral election
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1997· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 52nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1997–2001).
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1992· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1992–1997).
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1991· 1 entry
To devote herself to politics full-time as the prospective parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Highgate
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1989· 1 entry
Jackson appeared in Ken Russell's The Rainbow, playing Anna Brangwen, mother of Gudrun, the part for which she had won her first Academy Award twenty years earlier
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1986· 1 entry
Jackson visited Ethiopia as part of Oxfam's efforts to help with the famine there, and in 1989 she approached Voluntary Service Overseas about the chance of working in Africa for a couple of years
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1985· 1 entry
Played Nina Leeds in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude at the Nederlander Theatre in a production which had originated in London the previous year and ran for eight weeks
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1979· 2 entries
Began a social science degree at the Open University, but dropped out a few months later after falling behind with her essays
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Reunited with her A Touch of Class colleagues Segal and Frank for the romantic comedy Lost and Found
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1978· 3 entries
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1978).
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Was one of the public figures who lent their name as a sponsor to the Anti-Nazi League
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Starred in the romantic comedy House Calls, co-starring Walter Matthau, with the film spending two weeks at No
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1975· 2 entries
And 1978), the New York Film Critics and the US National Society of Film Critics
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Began an affair with Andy Phillips, the lighting director for the production of Hedda Gabler in which she was starring at the time
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for A Touch of Class (1974).
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1972· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Elizabeth R (1972).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Elizabeth R (1972).
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Women in Love (1971).
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1965· 1 entry
And in Paris (Jackson also appeared in the 1967 film version)
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1957· 1 entry
Jackson met Roy Hodges, a stage manager and fellow actor in their repertory theatre company
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1956· 1 entry
Studied at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1956).
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1954· 1 entry
Obtaining a discretionary award from Cheshire education committee that helped to finance her acting course
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1936· 1 entry
Born 1936-05-09.
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