Glenda Jackson
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| Known for: |
Sunday Bloody Sunday, Elizabeth R, Women in Love |
| Birth name: |
Glenda May Jackson |
| Birthday: |
9 May 1936,
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK |
| Available Photos |
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| Video Clips |
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Trivia
Only British Member of Parliament to win an Oscar.
Had to have her appendix removed. [October 1999]
Appointed a CBE in 1978.
March, 2002 - was hospitalized for serious injuries sustained to her wrist and hip.
Named after actress
Glenda Farrell.
In
The Rainbow she plays the mother of the character she had played twenty years earlier in
Women in Love .
In 1992 closed the curtain on her acting career and became Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate.
Appointed Junior transport minister in 1997.
Has a theatre named after her.
She was awarded the 1984 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actress for her best performance in Strange Interlude.
An Associate Member of RADA.
Has been nominated for Broadway's Tony Award four times: as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic), in 1966 for portraying Charlotte Corday in
Peter Weiss' "Marat/Sade," a performance recreated in the film version of the same title,
Marat/Sade; and, as Best Actress (Play): in 1981 for "Rose;" in 1985 for playing Nina Leeds in a revival of
Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," a role she recreated in a television version of the same title,
Strange Interlude; and in 1988 for playing Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's "Macbeth." She has yet to win.
On 5th May 2005 she has been re-elected MP for Hampstead & Highgate for the 4th time.
Learned her craft (in part, at least) as a member of the Dundee Repertory Company in the early 1960s alongside
Edward Fox,
Michael Culver and
Nicol Williamson.
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