Glenda Jackson was an English actress and former UK politician.
Jackson joined an amateur theater group as a teenager before winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Following graduating, Jackson starred on London’s West End and made her Broadway debut in 1965 in a production of “Marat/Sade.”
After gaining global attention in the 1970s, she won her first Oscar for playing a headstrong artist in director Ken Russell’s film of DH Lawrence’s novel Women in Love. Her second was for the 1973 romantic comedy “A Touch of Class”. Her other notable film credit includes Stevie (1978), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), Elizabeth R (1971), Nasty Habits (1977), The Patricia Neal Story (1981), King of the Wind (1990), and many others.
In 1992, she pivoted to politics, becoming a Labour MP while the party was in opposition. She was an MP for 23 years, during which her party came to power in a landslide under former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Jackson later returned to the screen, winning a Bafta for her comeback role in the TV drama Elizabeth Is Missing in 2020.
She died on June 15, 2023, at the age of 87 at her home in Blackheath, London, United Kingdom.
Glenda Jackson parents: Meet Joan Jackson And Harry Jackson
Joan Jackson and Harry Jackson were the parents of Glenda Jackson.
Glenda’s mother Joan Jackson was a house cleaner and barmaid, while her father Harry Jackson was a bricklayer.
Following Glenda’s birth in Birkenhead, Cheshire, the family moved to Hoylake, on the Wirral. The family was reportedly very poor and lived in a two-up, two-down house at 21 Lake Place with an outside toilet.
When Glenda was very young, her father was recruited into the Navy, where he worked aboard a minesweeper.
Besides Glenda, Joan Jackson and Harry Jackson had three other daughters whose names are not documented.