She was Oscar-nominated, too, for 1971 film “Sunday, Bloody Sunday,” and had memorable roles in “The Music Lovers,” Ken Russell's avant-garde 1970 film about the composer Tchaikovsky, and gentle romance “Turtle Diary” in 1985. Lawrence adaptation "Women in Love” in 1971 and the sophisticated romcom “A Touch of Class" in 1974. She performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company - where she starred in the cutting-edge drama “Marat/Sade” directed by Peter Brook - and became one of the biggest British stars of the 1960s and 70s, winning two Academy Awards, for the brooding D.H. I shall miss her."īorn into a working-class family in Birkhenhead, northwest England, in 1936 Jackson trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. (PA via AP, File) PA/AP Show More Show LessĬaine said Jackson was “one of our greatest movie actresses. Jackson's agent Lionel Larner said she died Thursday, Jat her home in London after a short illness. Glenda Jackson, a double Academy Award-winning performer who had a long second career as a British lawmaker, has died at 87. (Tony Harris/PA via AP, File) Tony Harris/AP Show More Show Less 9 of12 FILE - Candidate Glenda Jackson celebrates after being elected as Member of Parliament at the Hampstead and Highgate constituency for the Labour Party in London, April 10, 1992. John Rider/AP Show More Show Less 8 of12 FILE - Transport Minister Glenda Jackson launches the UK's first purpose built auto-LP Gas (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) powered bus at London Zoo, June 20, 1997. Robert Dear/AP Show More Show Less 7 of12 FILE British actress Glenda Jackson in Kensington Palace Gardens, London on April 16, 1971. Wallis, a member of the board of governors of the motion picture academy of arts and sciences. Frank Leonard Tewkesbury/AP Show More Show Lessĥ of12 6 of12 FILE - British actress Glenda Jackson holds her Oscar award which she won for her performance in the film 'Women in love', after she was presented with it in April 1971 in London by Hal B. Bob Dear/AP Show More Show Less 4 of12 FILE - The cast, from left, Avril Elgar, Marianne Faithfull, Glenda Jackson, George Cole and Alan Webb, rehearse a performance of Chekhov's play "Three Sisters", at the Royal Court Theatre, London, April 13, 1967. Jackson's agent Lionel Larner said she died Thursday, Jat her home in London after a short illness.(Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File) Charles Sykes/Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Show More Show Less 3 of12 FILE - British actress Glenda Jackson, Oscar and television award winner for her part as Queen Elizabeth I, is again Elizabeth of England, shown at Shepperton Studios, Middlesex, England for a new film Hal Wallis's production of Mary Queen of Scots. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Show More Show Less 2 of12 FILE - Glenda Jackson attends the 2018 Tony Awards Meet The Nominees press junket on Wednesday, May 2, 2018, in New York. 1 of12 FILE - In this file photo, Glenda Jackson attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "Camp: Notes on Fashion" exhibition on in New York.
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