ACTOR
Glenda Jackson
- Known for
- Women in Love (1969), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), A Touch of Class (1973)
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Glenda Jackson is an actor best known for Women in Love, Sunday Bloody Sunday and Mary, Queen of Scots.
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- #001
Glenda Jackson is the only Oscar-winning British Member of Parliament.
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In 1992, Glenda Jackson retired from acting to stand as a Labour Party parliamentary candidate.
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After decades as a member of the British Parliament, Glenda Jackson returned to acting and has since won Tony, BAFTA and International Emmy awards.
- #004
Glenda Jackson was a Member of Parliament representing the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in north London from 2010 to 2015.
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Glenda Jackson was the first woman to win the Best Actress Oscar for a role in which she appeared significantly naked (Women in Love, 1969).
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Glenda Jackson won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in "Three Tall Women".
- #007
Glenda Jackson was nominated for Best Actress at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2020 for Elizabeth is Missing.
- #008
Glenda Jackson is one of two British actresses, along with Vivien Leigh, to have won two Oscars: Leigh won Best Actress for Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), while Jackson won Best Actress for Women in Love (1969) and A Touch of Class (1973). Although Elizabeth Taylor, who won Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 (1960) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), was born in London, her parents were American and she was raised in the United States from the age of seven.
- #009
Glenda Jackson was appointed CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to drama.
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Glenda Jackson served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport in London from 1997 to 1999.
- #011
There was a theatre in Wirral named after Glenda Jackson. It was demolished in 2005.
- #012
Glenda Jackson played Queen Elizabeth I in both Elizabeth R (1971) and Mary, Queen of Scots (1971).
- #013
Glenda Jackson was not present to collect either of her Oscars because she was working in England at the time of both wins.
- #014
On 22 March 2002, Glenda Jackson was taken to hospital after falling and breaking her wrist and hip while on her way to give a speech. She was able to deliver most of her speech before the pain forced her to go to hospital.
- #015
Glenda Jackson is one of 14 Best Actress Oscar winners who did not accept the Academy Award in person. Jackson was not available to accept either of her wins (for Women in Love (1969) or A Touch of Class (1973)). The others are Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, Judy Holliday, Vivien Leigh, Anna Magnani, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, Anne Bancroft, Patricia Neal, Elizabeth Taylor, Maggie Smith and Ellen Burstyn.
- #016
Glenda Jackson was named after the actress Glenda Farrell.
- #017
Glenda Jackson won two Oscars, along with Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Bette Davis, Olivia de Haviland, Vivien Leigh, Frederick March, Luise Rainer, Elizabeth Taylor and Spencer Tracy.
- #018
In March 1969, Glenda Jackson gave birth at the age of 32 to her only child, Daniel Pearce Jackson Hodges (the political blogger Dan Hodges). The child's father is her now ex-husband Roy Hodges.
- #019
Glenda Jackson learned her craft (at least in part) in the early 1960s as a member of the Dundee Repertory Company alongside Edward Fox, Michael Culver and Nicol Williamson.
- #020
In 2018, Glenda Jackson became the 26th actor to win the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony). She won the Best Actress Oscars in 1971 and 1974 for Women in Love (1969) and A Touch of Class (1973), the 1972 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Elizabeth R (1971), and the 2018 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for "Three Tall Women".
- #021
Glenda Jackson is a big fan of the series The Wire (2002).
- #022
In early 2019, Glenda Jackson took on the role of King Lear on Broadway.
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Glenda Jackson was born on the same day as Albert Finney.
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Glenda Jackson is the only actor to receive an Oscar nomination for an adaptation of a play by Henrik Ibsen (Hedda (1975)).
- #025
Glenda Jackson was a Member of Parliament representing the Hampstead and Highgate constituency in north London from 1992 to 2010.
- #026
Glenda Jackson appears on one of a set of eight British commemorative postage stamps issued on 30 August 2018 to mark the 200th anniversary of The Old Vic Theatre. The stamp shows Jackson in her 2016 performance in "King Lear." The other artists featured on stamps in the set are Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Maggie Smith, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Sharon Benson, Judi Dench, John Stride and Richard Burton.
- #027
In 1974, there were plans to make a biographical picture of the actress Frances Farmer, to be directed by Ida Lupino and starring Glenda Jackson.
- #028
Glenda Jackson was nominated for the Broadway Tony Award five times: in 1966 for Best Featured Actress in a Play (Dramatic) for her role as Charlotte Corday in Peter Weiss's "Marat/Sade," which she recreated in the film version of the same work, Marat/Sade (1967); and for Best Actress (Play): in 1981 for "Rose;" in 1985 for her recreation of the role of Nina Leeds in "Strange Interlude," which she recreated in Eugene O'Neill's television version of the same name, Strange Interlude: Part 1 (1988); in 1988 for playing Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's "Macbeth"; and in 2018 she finally won the award with her second performance, for "Three Tall Women."
- #029
Glenda Jackson was honoured with the Best Actress award at the 1984 London Critics Circle Theatre Awards (Drama Theatre Award) for her performance in Strange Interlude.
- #030
Glenda Jackson won the 2020 Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Actress for the film 'Elizabeth Is Missing'.
- #031
Glenda Jackson is one of two actresses to have won both the Best Actress Oscar (for Women in Love (1969) and A Touch of Class (1973)) and the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (which she won for Elizabeth R (1971)). The other actress is Sally Field.
- #032
Before his military service, Glenda Jackson's father worked as a bricklayer.
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Glenda Jackson is an Associate Member of RADA.
- #034
Glenda Jackson is one of four British actresses to have won two Best Actress Oscars. The other three are Vivien Leigh, Dame Olivia De Havilland and Dame Elizabeth Taylor. Dame Emma Thompson also has two awards, for Best Actress and Best Screenplay, while Dame Maggie Smith won two awards, for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.
- #035
Glenda Jackson was nominated for the 1980 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her performance in 'Rose' but lost to Frances de la Tour.
- #036
Glenda Jackson is one of 17 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (Oscar, Emmy and Tony). The others, in chronological order, are Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Audrey Hepburn, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Ellen Burstyn, Helen Mirren, Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange and Viola Davis.
- #037
Glenda Jackson is one of 25 actors to have won an Oscar for a comedic performance; hers was for A Touch of Class (1973). The others, in chronological order, are: Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night (1934)), Loretta Young (The Farmer's Daughter (1947)), Josephine Hull (Harvey (1950)), Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday (1950)), Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday (1953)), Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower (1969)), Lee Grant (Shampoo (1975)), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall (1977)), Maggie Smith (California Suite (1978)), Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard (1980)), Jessica Lange (Tootsie (1982)), Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck (1987)), Cher (Moonstruck (1987)), Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy (1989)), Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King (1991)), Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny (1992)), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway (1994)), Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite (1995)), Frances McDormand (Fargo (1996)), Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets (1997)), Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)) and Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook (2012)).
- #038
Glenda Jackson had her appendix removed in October 1999.
- #039
Glenda Jackson worked as an assistant at Boots in Birkenhead.
- #040
Glenda Jackson is one of 14 actresses to win both the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for the same performance, which she did for A Touch of Class (1973). The others, in chronological order, are: Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday (1950), Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins (1964), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Cher for Moonstruck (1987), Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Helen Hunt for As Good as It Gets (1997), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Marion Cotillard for La Vie En Rose (2007) and Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook (2012).
- #041
Glenda Jackson is the maternal granddaughter of Robert (1881-1970) and Harriet Pearce (née Roberts, 1883-1950).
- #042
Glenda Jackson died just one day before her Elizabeth R (1971) co-star Angela Thorne.
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