Glenda Jackson

Glenda May Jackson was an English actress and later a Labour Party politician. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, for Women in Love and A Touch of Class (1973). Glenda Jackson appeared nude in Women In Love and again in The Music Lovers in 1971. She was born on 9 May 1936 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, and died on 15 June 2023. She played Elizabeth I in the BBC series Elizabeth R (1971), which earned her two Primetime Emmy Awards. Her other films include Mary, Queen of Scots, Hedda, The Incredible Sarah and Hopscotch (1980). She served as MP for Hampstead and Highgate from 1992, then Hampstead and Kilburn until 2015. After returning to acting, she won a Tony Award for Three Tall Women (2018).