Oscar-winning actress and Former MP from North London, Glenda Jackson had died age of 87, at her home in Blackheath, London. Glenda became an international star in the 1970s winning Oscars for Women In Love and A Touch of Class, and also received two further nominations. She also started in the BBC drama Elizabeth R as Queen Elizabeth I. She left acting to join the House of Commons as a Labour MP from 1992 to 2015 and was junior transport minister for two years under Tony Blair’s New Labour government from 1997.

Glenda Mary Jackson, daughter of a bricklayer, born on 9th May 1936 in Birkenhead in Wirral. She joined YMCA drama group and said, “I had no real ambition about acting, but I had tobe something better than the bloody chemist’s shop”. Two Years later, she won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.She joined in 1964, the Royal Shakespeare Company and a year later she had her big breakthrough in Peter Brook’s stage production Marat/Sade.She then played the lunatic inmate who finds herself acting the
role Charlotte Corday, the assassin of the French Revolutionary, Jean Marat. Jackson transferred with the production to Broadway and in 1967, appeared in a film version also directed by Brook. In 1969 she won her first Oscar for best actress in Ken Russell’s adaptation of the DH Lawrence novel, Jackson plays a British divorcee who has an affair with a married American, and falls in love opposite George Segal in A Touch of Class which won her second Oscar. Women in Love. In 2020, she won BAFTA TV Award for best leading actress for her performance in Elizabeth in Missing about a woman suffering from dementia.