Glenda Jackson, two-time Oscar-winning actress-turned-UK Labor MP, dead at 87
nypost.comasked 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, 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,” he wrote. “She recently completed filming ‘TheGreat Escaper’ in which she co-starred with Michael Caine.” He added, “Today we lost one of the world’s greatest actresses, and I have lost a best friend of over 50 years.”No cause of death was revealed.
Born on May 9, 1936, in Birkenhead, Jackson cut her teeth at the legendary Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.First appearing in the 1966 Royal Shakespeare Company production of “Marat/Sade,” the dramatist would go on to become a veritable icon on the stage.She notably garnered a whopping five Laurence Olivier Award nominations for her work in such productions as 1979’s “Antony and Cleopatra,” and most recently, “King Lear” in 2017.Jackson is perhaps most famous internationally for her work on the big screen.
She won Oscars for her roles in Ken Russell’s adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love,” which also starred Alan Bates and Oliver Reed, as well as the 1973 romantic-comedy “Touch of Class” alongside George Segal.
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