Glenda Jackson, Oscar-winning British actor and politician, dies at 87

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Glenda Jackson, an Oscar-winning British actor who had a second career in politics, has died at 87.

Glenda Jackson, a two-time Academy Award-winning performer who had a second career in politics as a British lawmaker, has died at 87.

"She recently completed filming 'The Great Escaper' in which she co-starred with Michael Caine," he said. Glenda Jackson poses with her award for Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play for"Edward Albee's Three Tall Women" at the 72nd annual Tony Awards in June 2018.She then went into politics, was elected to Parliament and spent 23 years as a Labour Party lawmaker, serving as a minister for transport in Prime Minister Tony Blair's first government in 1997.

"The victims will be as they always are, women, children, the elderly," she told The Associated Press before the invasion.

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