Glenda Jackson, Two-Time Oscar Winner and Former Politician, Dead at 87

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Michael Caine filming their last movie together and chatting to locals on the Sussex seafront - just a short time before the actress died.  The Oscar-winning British actors had not filmed together for 47 years.  Sir Michael paid tribute to the actress and former Labour MP after her death at the age of 87 yesterday, calling her 'one of the greatest movie actresses'.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentGlenda Jackson, who segued from a successful actress — Oscars for “Women in Love” and “A Touch of Class” and two Emmys for “Elizabeth R” — into a 23-year career as member of the U.K.’s House of Commons, has died. She was 87.  Jackson died after a brief illness at her home in London, her agent Lionel Larner said. “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. She recently completed filming ‘The Great Escaper’ in which she co-starred with Michael Caine,” Larner said in a statement. Aside from her prize-winning roles, Jackson gave terrific performances in such films as 1967’s “Marat/Sade” (as Charlotte Corday), “Sunday Bloody Sunday” (1971, as a member of a bisexual love triangle) and on TV in “The Patricia Neal Story,” a 1981 work about that actress’s stroke and recovery with husband Roald Dahl. A defining role in Jackson’s career was Queen Elizabeth I in the six-episode 1971 TV miniseries “Elizabeth R,” in which the character aged from teenage girl to old woman. She also played Elizabeth in the film “Mary, Queen of Scots,” opposite Vanessa Redgrave, that same year.

BBC News her agent Lionel Larner said she passed away after a brief illness.He added: “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.“She recently completed filming The Great Escaper in which she co-starred with Michael Caine.”Jackson became an international star in the 1970s, winning Academy Awards for the 1969 film Women In Love and 1973’s A Touch of Class.She also famously starred as Queen Elizabeth I in the BBC drama Elizabeth R from 1971.Jackson gave up acting to join the House of Commons as a Labour MP in north London from 1992 to 2015 before she later returned to acting, winning a Bafta for her comeback role in the TV drama Elizabeth Is Missing in 2020.This is a breaking news story, check back for further updates.

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Glenda Jackson, a two-time Academy Award-winning performer who had a second career in politics as a British lawmaker before an acclaimed late-life return to stage and screen, has died at age 87.

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Guy Lodge Film Critic “She’s 100% a professional, and this is a great night for professionals,” said the actor Juliet Mills as she accepted Glenda Jackson’s first Best Actress Oscar on the absent winner’s behalf at the 1970 Academy Awards. On the face of it, it sounds an oddly impersonal thing to say in the circumstances — almost as if Mills knew nothing of Jackson, and opted for the vaguest praise possible. (In fact, it was probably a veiled dig at that year’s Best Actor winner, George C. Scott, who had rather more acrimoniously declined to attend the awards.) It proved, however, a rather apt way for Jackson, then 34, to be welcomed into Hollywood’s inner circle. A proudly working-class Brit who didn’t look or act (on screen or off) like the blushing English roses typically imported from across the pond, Jackson had markedly more interest in being a professional actor than in being a movie star. That spared her, even as she racked up assignments and awards, much of the fuss and frippery associated with A-list status — going to the Oscars included. (She was a no-show each of the four years she was nominated, but did turn up once to present Best Actor. A pro indeed.) And when, in middle age, she tired of acting altogether, she quit as unassumingly as she arrived — instead entering British politics with a sense of liberal-minded duty uncommon in the ranks of celebrities-turned-statesmen.

Veteran actress and former politician Glenda Jackson has "died peacefully" after a brief illness at the age of 87, her agent has confirmed.The screen star and former Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate won the Oscar for best actress in 1970 for Women In Love and again three years later for A Touch Of Class – although opted not to attend the ceremony on either occasion. Her agent Lionel Larner said in a statement on Thursday 15 June: "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.

asked the thespian if she ever missed acting during her stint in politics.Jackson replied, “Acting only exists when you’re doing it. If you’re not doing it, there’s nothing to miss.”Her agent Lionel Larner confirmed the actress’s passing in a statement.

Glenda Jackson, the double Oscar-winning British actress, and former Labour MP, has died. She was 87.

Glenda Jackson, who earned the Triple Crown of acting during her career, has died at age 87. She died Thursday at her home in London after a short illness, according to her agent, Lionel Larner. He also said she had recently completed filming "The Great Escaper," co-starring with 90-year-old Michael Caine, with whom she had previously starred with in 1975’s "The Romantic Englishwoman." Caine said it was "as wonderful an experience this time as it was 50 years ago," when the two last worked together.

Glenda Jackson, who won Academy Awards for Women In Love and A Touch of Class, has passed away at 87.