The actress’s manager, Lionel Larner, announced the death of the 87-year-old actress via PA News. The woman passed away at her home “after a short illness”. A statement quoted by the Guardian reads: “Glenda Jackson, the two-time Oscar-winning actress and politician, died peacefully this morning at her home in Blackheath, London, after a short illness, with her family by her side.”
Glenda Jackson is dead. Who was the actress and politician?
Born in 1936 in Birkenhead, she dreamed of becoming a dancer since childhood. She also discovered during her adolescence that she was drawn to acting and, at the urging of a friend, decided to join the local theater company Townswomen’s Guild. Soon after, she began studying at one of the drama schools, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
She made her first professional stage appearance in Worthing in 1957 in Terence Rattigan’s Separate Tables. Seven years later, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), which brings together British theaters. Playwright David Edgar later recalled her performance in Peter Weiss’ Marat/Sade as one of the best he had ever seen, in a production that “changed British theater forever”.
She made her big screen debut in 1963 with a modest part in Lindsay Anderson’s The Sporting Life. She gained recognition for her role in “Women in Love” in 1969, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress two years later. The second statuette of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was awarded to her three years later for her role in the film “Love Overtime”.
Until the nineties, she managed to appear in dozens of productions, after which she decided to devote herself to politics and gave up her film career. In 1992, she was elected to the British House of Commons for the Labor Party, where she held the post until 2015, when she resigned to return to acting. In 2016, she appeared in the play “King Lir”, and two years later in “Three Tall Women”. In 2019, we could see her again on the big screen in the film “No trace of Elizabeth”, where she played Maud. For this role, she received the 2020 British Academy Film Award.
Source: Gazeta
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