Glenda May Jackson CBE 9 May 1936 Birkenhead Cheshire 15 June 2023 was an English actress and politician She was one of the few artists to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting having won two Academy Awards three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award She was made a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1978 She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice for her roles in Women in Love 1970 and A Touch of Class 1973 She won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971 Her other notable roles include Mary Queen of Scots 1971 Hedda 1975 The Incredible Sarah 1976 and Hopscotch 1980 She won two Primetime Emmy Awards for her role as Elizabeth I in the BBC series Elizabeth R 1971 She received the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for her role in Elizabeth Is Missing 2019 Jackson studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art RADA She made her Broadway debut in MaratSade 1966 She received five Laurence Olivier Award nominations for her West End roles in Stevie 1977 Antony and Cleopatra 1979 Rose 1980 Strange Interlude 1984 and King Lear 2016 the later being her first role after a 25 year absence from acting which she reprised on Broadway in 2019 She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in the revival of Edward Albees Three Tall Women 2018 Jackson took a hiatus from acting to take on a career in politics from 1992 to 2015 and was elected as the Labour Party MP for Hampstead and Highgate in the 1992 general election She served as a junior transport minister from 1997 to 1999 during the government of Tony Blair later becoming critical of Blair After constituency boundary changes she represented Hampstead and Kilburn from 2010 At the 2010 general election her majority of 42 votes confirmed after a recount was the narrowest of that parliament Jackson stood down at the 2015 general election and returned to acting Description above from the Wikipedia article Glenda Jackson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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