BREAKING: Glenda Jackson, a two-time Academy Award-winning actress and politician, has died aged 87
Despite her successful career, which also included two Emmy Awards and a Tony, Jackson previously said she never had any interest in the social and glamorous aspects of the industry.
The double Oscar-winner gave up acting for politics more than a quarter of a century ago and served as a Labour MP for 23 years.Jackson won the Oscar for best actress in 1970 for Women In Love In 1992 she was elected as the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate and served as a junior transport minister from 1997 to 1999 during Sir Tony Blair’s government.She won a Bafta for best actress in 2019 for her role in Elizabeth Is Missing, which followed the story of a woman suffering from dementia.
Jackson, pictured in 2018, had just finishing filming The Great Escaper alongside fellow double Oscar-winner Sir Michael Caine Jackson had just finishing filming The Great Escaper alongside fellow double Oscar-winner Sir Michael, who she had last acted with 48 years ago in The Romantic Englishwoman.
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