Glenda Jackson Dies: Double Oscar-Winning British Actress Was 87
deadline.comGlenda Jackson, the double Oscar-winning British actress, and former Labour MP, has died. She was 87. In a statement, her agent Lionel Larner said she died at her home in Blackheath, south-east London, following a “brief illness.” Larner’s statement read: “Glenda Jackson, two-time Academy Award-winning actress, and politician, died peacefully at her home in Blackheath, London this morning after a brief illness with her family at her side.” Statement continued: “She recently completed filming The Great Escaper in which she co-starred with Michael Caine.” Jackson was perhaps best known for her two Oscar-winning performances in Ken Russell’s 1970’s pic Women in Love, a D.
H. Lawrence adaptation, where she starred alongside Alan Bates and Oliver Reed and 1973’s A Touch of Class. Jackson also won a BAFTA Best Actress gong for Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971).
Jackson was born in 1936 in North West England. She studied at London’s prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and made her stage debut in a 1966 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Marat/Sade.
Across her stage career, she received five Laurence Olivier Award nominations for performances in classical productions such as Antony and Cleopatra (1979).
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