The actress Glenda Jackson, winner of two oscars and later socialist politician in the British Parliament for 23 years, has died after a brief illness at 87 years old. This was reported this Thursday by AP Media, citing his agent.

Jackson, had acted on stage, television and film before leaving the profession to pursue politics.: “The life of an actor is not interesting.” One of four daughters of a bricklayer and a cleaning lady from the North West of England, she never forgot her roots, not even when she made a name for herself as one of the best actresses of her generation and decided to devote her life to politics and giving voice for the working classes in parliament.

Two Oscars

Raised in Birkenhead, Cheshire, Jackson left school at the age of 15 and began working in a store before joining the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. She was later awarded her first Oscar in 1971 as a leading actress for her role as a headstrong artist in director Ken Russell’s film of the DH Lawrence novel ‘Women in Love’. Her second Oscar came three years later for her performance in ‘A touch of class’a romantic comedy directed by Melvin Frank in which Jackson played a beleaguered fashion designer caught up in a disastrous affair with an American businessman in London.

political career

After more than three decades in film and theater, Jackson gave up acting and went into politics. She was outraged by the damage that Margaret Thatcher, British Conservative Prime Minister of 1979 to 1990, had inflicted on the working classes. In 1992, at the age of 55, Jackson won a seat in Parliament representing the centre-left Labor Party in a north London constituency. “We must work for the poor, the homeless, the unemployed, the weak, the sick,” he told his followers.