Actor
Glenda Jackson
May 9, 1936 · Wirral, England, UK
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).
Often works with
Walter Matthau
2 titles together
Hopscotch, House Calls
Michael Caine
2 titles together
The Great Escaper, The Romantic Englishwoman
Vivian Pickles
2 titles together
Sunday Bloody Sunday, Elizabeth R
Ian Holm
2 titles together
Mary, Queen of Scots, The Return of the Soldier
Max Adrian
2 titles together
The Music Lovers, The Boy Friend
Kenneth Colley
2 titles together
The Music Lovers, The Triple Echo
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Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story
cast
Upcoming
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
as Archive
2025
The Great Escaper
as Irene Jordan
20236.6
Mothering Sunday
as Jane (Older)
20215.4
Mothers of the Revolution
as Narrator (voice)
2021
Elizabeth Is Missing
as Maud Palmer Horsham
20197.3
A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai
as Alexandra Kollontai (voice)
1994
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
as Harriet Cohen
1992
The House of Bernarda Alba
as Bernarda
1991
A Murder of Quality
as Alisa Brimley
19915.7
King of the Wind
as Queen Caroline
1990
The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty
as Glitch the Witch (voice)
1990