Glenda Jackson

Actor

Born May 9, 1936 in Wirral, England, UK

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).

Filmography

Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story

Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders

Archive

The Great Escaper

Irene Jordan

Remembers…

Self

Mothering Sunday

Jane (Older)

Mothers of the Revolution

Narrator (voice)

Elizabeth Is Missing

Maud Palmer Horsham

Trust Morecambe & Wise

Self

Morecambe & Wise in America

Self

Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me

Self

Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil

Self

Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Best of Morecambe and Wise

Self (archive footage)

So Graham Norton

Self - Guest

A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai

Alexandra Kollontai (voice)

The Secret Life of Arnold Bax

Harriet Cohen

The House of Bernarda Alba

Bernarda

A Murder of Quality

Alisa Brimley

Have I Got News for You

Self

King of the Wind

Queen Caroline

The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty

Glitch the Witch (voice)

The Rainbow

Anna Brangwen

Doombeach

Miss Ricketts

Salome's Last Dance

Herodias / Lady Alice

Strange Interlude

Nina Leeds

Beyond Therapy

Charlotte

Business as Usual

Babs Flynn

Turtle Diary

Neaera Duncan

Sakharov

Yelena Bonner

The Return of the Soldier

Margaret Grey

Giro City

Sophie

Wogan

Self

Let Poland Be Poland

Self - Co-Host

American Playhouse

Nina Leeds

The Patricia Neal Story

Patricia Neal

Six Fifty-Five Special

Self

Blood Donors

Self

Hopscotch

Isobel

HealtH

Isabella Garnell

Question Time

Self - Panellist

Lost and Found

Tricia

The Class Of Miss MacMichael

Conor MacMichael

Stevie

Stevie Smith

House Calls

Ann Atkinson

Nasty Habits

Sister Alexandra

The Incredible Sarah

Sarah Bernhardt

The Muppet Show

Self - Special Guest Star

Hedda

The Romantic Englishwoman

Elizabeth

The Maids

Solange

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Self

The Tempter

Sister Geraldine

Dinah!

Self

A Touch of Class

Vicki Allessio

Bequest to the Nation

Lady Hamilton

The Triple Echo

Alice Charlesworth

Midi trente

Self

Mary, Queen of Scots

Queen Elizabeth

The Boy Friend

Rita Monroe

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Alex Greville

Elizabeth R

Queen Elizabeth I

The Music Lovers

Antonina 'Nina' Milyukova

The Pacemakers: Glenda Jackson

Self

Women in Love

Gudrun Brangwen

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Marina Palek

Negatives

Vivien

The Dick Cavett Show

Self - Guest

Tell Me Lies

Glenda

Omnibus

Self

Half Hour Story

Claire Foley

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Charlotte Corday