Acting

Glenda Jackson

93 titles60 movies · 33 series

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.

Filmography

Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders

Film · 2025

The Great Escaper

Film · 2023

Remembers…

Series · 2022

Mothering Sunday

Film · 2021

Mothers of the Revolution

Film · 2021

Elizabeth Is Missing

Film · 2019

Trust Morecambe & Wise

Series · 2019

Morecambe & Wise in America

Series · 2018

Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me

Film · 2017

Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil

Film · 2012

Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes

Film · 2011

Brook by Brook

Film · 2002

The Best of Morecambe and Wise

Film · 2001

Blouse and Skirt

Series · 2000

So Graham Norton

Series · 1998

A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai

Film · 1994

The Secret Life of Arnold Bax

Film · 1992

Terry Wogan's Friday Night

Series · 1992

A Murder of Quality

Film · 1991

The House of Bernarda Alba

Film · 1991

King of the Wind

Film · 1990

The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty

Film · 1990

Have I Got News for You

Series · 1990

The Rainbow

Film · 1989

Doombeach

Film · 1989

Salome's Last Dance

Film · 1988

Strange Interlude

Series · 1988

Beyond Therapy

Film · 1987

Business as Usual

Film · 1987

Turtle Diary

Film · 1985

Sakharov

Film · 1984

The Return of the Soldier

Film · 1983

Let Poland Be Poland

Film · 1982

Giro City

Film · 1982

Wogan

Series · 1982

American Playhouse

Series · 1982

Blood Donors

Film · 1981

The Patricia Neal Story

Film · 1981

Six Fifty-Five Special

Series · 1981

Hopscotch

Film · 1980

HealtH

Film · 1980

Lost and Found

Film · 1979

Question Time

Series · 1979

House Calls

Film · 1978

The Class Of Miss MacMichael

Film · 1978

Stevie

Film · 1978

Nasty Habits

Film · 1977

The Incredible Sarah

Film · 1976

The Muppet Show

Series · 1976

Hedda

Film · 1975

The Romantic Englishwoman

Film · 1975

The Maids

Film · 1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Series · 1975

The Tempter

Film · 1974

Dinah!

Series · 1974

A Touch of Class

Film · 1973

Bequest to the Nation

Film · 1973

The Triple Echo

Film · 1972

Midi trente

Series · 1972

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Film · 1971

Mary, Queen of Scots

Film · 1971

The Music Lovers

Film · 1971

The Pacemakers: Glenda Jackson

Film · 1971

The Boy Friend

Film · 1971

Elizabeth R

Series · 1971

Film '72

Series · 1971

Women in Love

Film · 1969

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Series · 1969

Negatives

Film · 1968

Let's Murder Vivaldi

Film · 1968

Tell Me Lies

Film · 1968

The Dick Cavett Show

Series · 1968

The Benefit of the Doubt

Film · 1967

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

Film · 1967