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Glenda Jackson

January 05, 2023

Glenda May Jackson CBE (born 9 May 1936) is an English actress and former Member of Parliament (MP). She has won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice: for her role as Gudrun Brangwen in the romantic drama Women in Love (1970); and again for her role as Vickie Allessio in the romantic comedy A Touch of Class (1973). She received praise for her performances as Alex Greville in the drama film Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) and Elizabeth I in the BBC television serial Elizabeth R (1971), winning two Primetime Emmy Awards for the latter. In 2018, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in a revival of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, becoming one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting in the US.

Glenda Jackson
CBE
Jackson in 1971
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
In office
6 May 1997 – 29 July 1999
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byJohn Bowis
Succeeded byKeith Hill
Member of Parliament
for Hampstead and Kilburn
Hampstead and Highgate (1992–2010)
In office
9 April 1992 – 30 March 2015
Preceded byGeoffrey Finsberg
Succeeded byTulip Siddiq
Personal details
Born
Glenda May Jackson

(1936-05-09) 9 May 1936 (age 86)
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England
Political partyLabour
Spouse
Roy Hodges
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(m. 1958; div. 1976)​
ChildrenDan Hodges
Jackson's voice
The Film Programme, 6 July 2007[1]

Jackson took a hiatus from acting to take on a career in politics from 1992 to 2015, and was elected as the Labour Party MP for Hampstead and Highgate in the 1992 general election. She served as a junior transport minister from 1997 to 1999 during the government of Tony Blair, later becoming critical of Blair. After constituency boundary changes, she represented Hampstead and Kilburn from 2010. At the 2010 general election, her majority of 42 votes was one of the closest results of the election.[2] Jackson stood down at the 2015 general election, and has since made a successful return to acting.

Early life

Glenda Jackson was born at 151 Market Street in Birkenhead, Cheshire on Saturday 9 May 1936. Her mother named her after the Hollywood film star Glenda Farrell.[3] Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Hoylake in the Wirral.[4] Glenda's family were very poor, and lived in a two-up, two-down house at 21 Lake Place with an outside toilet. Her father Harry was a builder, while her mother Joan (née Pearce) worked on the local supermarket checkout, pulled pints in a pub, and was a domestic cleaner.[5][6][7]

The oldest of four daughters, Glenda was educated at Holy Trinity Church of England and Cathcart Street primary schools, followed by West Kirby County Grammar School for Girls in nearby West Kirby, and performed in the Townswomen's Guild drama group during her teens.[6][7][8][9] Jackson made her first acting appearance in J. B. Priestley's Mystery of Greenfingers in 1952 for the YMCA Players in Hoylake.[10] She worked for two years in Boots the Chemists, before winning a scholarship in 1954 to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.[11] Jackson moved to the capital to begin the course in early 1955.[12]

Acting career

1957–1968: Early career

In January 1957, Jackson made her professional stage debut in Ted Willis's Doctor in the House at the Connaught Theatre in Worthing.[13] This was followed by Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables, while Jackson was still at RADA,[14] and she began appearing in repertory theatre.[15] She was also a stage manager at Crewe in repertory theatre.[7]

From 1958 to 1961, Jackson went through a period of two and a half years in which she was unable to find acting work. She unsuccessfully auditioned for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), and undertook what she later described as "a series of soul-destroying jobs". This included waitressing at The 2i's Coffee Bar, clerical work for a large City of London firm, answering phones for a theatrical agent, and a role at British Home Stores. She also worked as a Bluecoat at Butlin's Pwllheli holiday resort on the Llŷn Peninsula in North West Wales, where her new husband and fellow actor Roy Hodges was a Redcoat. Jackson eventually returned to repertory theatre in Dundee, but worked in bars in between acting jobs.[16]

Jackson made her film debut in a bit part in the kitchen sink drama This Sporting Life (1963). A member of the RSC for four years from 1963, she originally joined for director Peter Brook's Theatre of Cruelty season, which included Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade (1965), where she played an inmate of an insane asylum portraying Charlotte Corday, the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat.[17] The production ran on Broadway in 1965 and in Paris[15] (Jackson also appeared in the 1967 film version). She appeared as Ophelia in Peter Hall's production of Hamlet the same year.[18] Critic Penelope Gilliatt thought Jackson was the only Ophelia she had seen who was ready to play the Prince himself.[19]

The RSC's staging at the Aldwych Theatre of US (1966), a protest play against the Vietnam War, also featured Jackson, and she appeared in its film version, Tell Me Lies.[20] Later that year, she starred in the psychological drama Negatives (1968), which was not a huge financial success, but won her more good reviews.

1969–1980: Film and television

Jackson's starring role in Ken Russell's film adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love (1969) led to her first Academy Award for Best Actress. Brian McFarlane, the main author of The Encyclopedia of British Film, wrote: "Her blazing intelligence, sexual challenge and abrasiveness were at the service of a superbly written role in a film with a passion rare in the annals of British cinema."[21]

In the process of gaining funding for The Music Lovers (1970) from United Artists, Russell explained it as "the story of a homosexual who marries a nymphomaniac,"[22] the couple being the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Richard Chamberlain) and Antonina Miliukova, played by Jackson. The film received mixed reviews in the U.S.; the anonymous reviewer in Variety wrote of the two principals, "Their performances are more dramatically bombastic than sympathetic, or sometimes even believable."[23] The Music Lovers was a box-office success in Europe, reaching No. 1 in the UK's weekly rankings in March 1971. It was the first of four films starring Jackson which would top the box-office charts in her native country.[24][25] Jackson was initially interested in the role of Sister Jeanne in The Devils (1971), Russell's next film, but turned it down after script rewrites and deciding that she did not wish to play a third neurotic character in a row.[26]

Jackson had her head shaved to play Queen Elizabeth I in the BBC's serial Elizabeth R (1971). After the series aired on PBS in the US, she received two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performance. She also played Queen Elizabeth in the film Mary, Queen of Scots; and gained an Academy Award nomination and a BAFTA Award for her role in John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday (both 1971).[27] In July, Sunday Bloody Sunday topped the UK box-office charts for two weeks.[25] That year, British exhibitors voted her the 6th most popular star at the British box office.[28] Jackson's popularity was such that 1971 saw her receive Best Film Actress awards from the Variety Club of Great Britain (who also awarded her similarly in 1975 and 1978), the New York Film Critics and the US National Society of Film Critics.[7]

Mary, Queen of Scots was premièred in December 1971 in Los Angeles and was the 1972 Royal Film Performance in Britain, attended by the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon.[29][30] The film reached No. 1 in the UK box-office charts in April that year, a position it held for five consecutive weeks.[25] Jackson made the first of several appearances with Morecambe and Wise in their 1971 Christmas special. Appearing in a comedy sketch as Cleopatra for the BBC Morecambe and Wise Show, she delivered the line, "All men are fools and what makes them so is having beauty like what I have got."[31] Her later appearances included a song-and-dance routine (where she was pushed offstage by Eric), a period drama about Queen Victoria, and another musical routine (in their Thames Television series) where she was elevated ten feet in the air by a misbehaving swivel chair.[32][33] Jackson and Wise also appeared in a 1981 information film for the Blood Transfusion Service.[34]

Filmmaker Melvin Frank saw Jackson's comedy skills on the Morecambe and Wise Show and offered her the lead female role in his romantic comedy A Touch of Class (1973), co-starring George Segal, which was a UK box-office No. 1 in June 1973.[25] In February 1974, Jackson's role in the film won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. She continued to work in the theatre, returning to the RSC for the lead in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. A later film version directed by Trevor Nunn was released as Hedda (1975), for which Jackson was nominated for an Oscar. In The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote: "This version of Hedda Gabler is all Miss Jackson's Hedda and, I must say, great fun to watch ... Miss Jackson's technical virtuosity is particularly suited to a character like Hedda. Her command of her voice and her body, as well as the Jackson mannerisms, have the effect of separating the actress from the character in a very curious way."[35]

In 1978, she scored box office success in the United States in the romantic comedy House Calls, co-starring Walter Matthau, with the film spending two weeks at No. 1 in the US box-office rankings.[36][37][38] House Calls was the biggest box-office hit of her career in the US.[39] That year, she was awarded a CBE.[7] In 1979, she reunited with her A Touch of Class colleagues Segal and Frank for the romantic comedy Lost and Found.[40][41] Jackson and Matthau teamed again in the comedy Hopscotch (1980), which debuted at No. 1 in its opening weekend at the US box office, also spending its second week in the top spot.[42][43][44]

For her 1980 appearance on The Muppet Show, Jackson told the producers she would perform any material they liked. In her appearance, she has a delusion that she is a pirate captain who takes over the Muppet Theatre as her ship.[45]

1980–1992: Later acting career

Fifteen years after the New York engagement of Marat/Sade, Jackson returned to Broadway in Andrew Davies's Rose (1981) opposite Jessica Tandy; both actresses received Tony nominations for their roles.[46]

In September 1983, The Glenda Jackson Theatre in Birkenhead was named in her honour. The theatre was attached to Wirral Metropolitan College, but demolished in 2005 following the establishment of a purpose-built site for students.[47]

In 1985, she appeared as Nina Leeds in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude at the Nederlander Theatre in a production which had originated in London the previous year and ran for eight weeks.[6] John Beaufort for The Christian Science Monitor wrote: "Bravura is the inevitable word for Miss Jackson's display of feminine wiles and brilliant technique."[48] Frank Rich in The New York Times thought Jackson, "with her helmet of hair and gashed features," when Leeds is a young woman, "looks like a cubist portrait of Louise Brooks," and later when the character has aged several decades, is "mesmerizing as a Zelda Fitzgeraldesque neurotic, a rotting and spiteful middle-aged matron and, finally, a spent, sphinx-like widow happily embracing extinction."[49] Herbert Wise directed a British television version of O'Neill's drama which was first broadcast in the US as part of PBS's American Playhouse in January 1988.[50]

In November 1984, Jackson appeared in the title role of Robert David MacDonald's English translation of Racine's Phèdre, titled Phedra, at The Old Vic. The play was designed and directed by Philip Prowse, and Robert Eddison played Theramenes.[51][52] The Daily Telegraph's John Barber wrote of her performance, "Wonderfully impressive... The actress finds a voice as jagged and hoarse as her torment". Benedict Nightingale in the New Statesman was intrigued that Jackson didn't go in for nobility, but played Racine's feverish queen as if to say that "being skewered in the guts by Cupid is an ugly, bitter, humiliating business".[53] The costume which Prowse designed for Jackson's performance is in the Victoria and Albert Museum,[54] and iconic photographs of Jackson in the role can be found online.[55][56]

In 1989, Jackson appeared in Ken Russell's The Rainbow, playing Anna Brangwen, mother of Gudrun, the part for which she had won her first Academy Award twenty years earlier. The same year, she played Martha in a Los Angeles production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Doolittle Theatre (now the Ricardo Montalbán Theatre). Directed by the playwright himself, this staging featured John Lithgow as George. Dan Sullivan in the Los Angeles Times wrote that Jackson and Lithgow performed "with the assurance of dedicated character assassins, not your hire-and-salary types" with the actors being able to display their character's capacity for antipathy.[57] Albee was disappointed with this production, pointing to Jackson, who he thought "had retreated back to the thing she can do very well, that ice cold performance. I don't know whether she got scared, but in rehearsal she was being Martha, and the closer we got to opening the less Martha she was!"[58]

She performed the lead role in Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution as Galactia, a sixteenth century female Venetian artist, at the Almeida Theatre in 1990.[59] It was an adaptation of Barker's 1984 radio play in which Jackson had played the same role.[60]

2015–present: Return to acting

In 2015, Jackson returned to acting following a 23-year absence, having retired from politics. She took the role of Dide, the ancient matriarch, in a series of Radio 4 plays, Blood, Sex and Money, based on a series of novels by Émile Zola.[61] She returned to the stage at the end of 2016, playing the title role in William Shakespeare's King Lear at the Old Vic Theatre in London, in a production running from 25 October to 3 December. Jackson was nominated for Best Actress at the Olivier Awards for her role, but ultimately lost out to Billie Piper. She did, however, win the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress at the 2017 Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her performance.[62] Dominic Cavendish of The Telegraph wrote, "Glenda Jackson is tremendous as King Lear. No ifs, no buts. In returning to the stage at the age of 80, 25 years after her last performance (as the Clytemnestra-like Christine in Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra at the Glasgow Citizens), she has pulled off one of those 11th-hour feats of human endeavour that will surely be talked about for years to come by those who see it."[63]

In 2018, Jackson returned to Broadway in a revival of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, winning the 2018 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Marilyn Stasio of Variety wrote, "Watching Glenda Jackson in theatrical flight is like looking straight into the sun. Her expressive face registers her thoughts while guarding her feelings. But it's the voice that really thrills. Deeply pitched and clarion clear, it's the commanding voice of stern authority. Don't mess with this household god or she'll turn you to stone."[64]

Jackson returned to the role of King Lear on Broadway in a production that opened in April 2019.[65] Director Sam Gold describes her portrayal of Lear in The New York Times Magazine: "She is going to go through something most people don't go through. You're all invited. Glenda Jackson is going to endure this, and you're going to witness it."[66]

In 2019, after a 27-year absence, Jackson returned to television drama, portraying an elderly grandmother struggling with dementia in Elizabeth Is Missing on BBC One, based on the novel of the same name by Emma Healey, for which she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress and International Emmy Award for Best Actress.[67][68]

It was reported in February 2021 that Jackson would co-star with Michael Caine in The Great Escaper, a film telling the true story of Bernard Jordan's escape from his care home to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in France. Caine will play Jordan, with Jackson as his wife Irene.[69] Caine and Jackson previously starred together in The Romantic Englishwoman (1976).[70]

In July 2022, the British Film Institute celebrated her film and television career with a month-long retrospective season at the BFI Southbank in London. As well as screenings of her work, the programme included Glenda Jackson in Conversation, in which she was interviewed about her career live on stage by broadcaster John Wilson.[71][72][73]

Political career

Jackson joined the Labour Party in the early 1950s, at the age of 16.[74] Her earlier campaigns were not party political, however. In 1978, she was one of the public figures who lent their name as a sponsor to the Anti-Nazi League.[75] The same year, she appeared in a print advertisement for Oxfam.[76] Jackson was on the executive of the National Association of Voluntary Hostels, and spoke at rallies for the housing charity Shelter. Human rights were also an area of interest, and she joined a demonstration outside the Indonesian Embassy to protest against the detention of political prisoners. She was involved in children's charities, as president of the Toy Libraries Association and narrating programmes for UNICEF. She also gave her time and money to a home for emotionally disturbed children in Berkshire run by former actress Coral Atkins.[77]

Jackson was a supporter of the National Abortion Campaign, and organised a benefit evening for them at the Cambridge Theatre, which raised over £3,000. She also supported Dr Una Kroll's Women's Rights candidacy for Sutton and Cheam at the October 1974 general election. In addition, Jackson made several appearances on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions? debate programme during this period of her career.[77] She had considered becoming a social worker, and in 1979 began a social science degree at the Open University, but dropped out a few months later after falling behind with her essays.[78] Jackson appeared in a number of charity films, including on behalf of International Year of the Child, Voluntary Service Overseas and Oxfam. Other such films featured her campaigning against polio and the arms trade.[79]

Labour Party

Jackson's name was linked to several parliamentary seats over the years; she was approached by a Constituency Labour Party in Bristol to stand at the 1979 general election, but this did not materialise.[77][note 1] An approach was also made to her about the possibility of being a candidate for the marginal Welsh seat of Bridgend at the 1983 general election, which she turned down in order to pursue a humanities degree at Thames Polytechnic. However, she dropped out before starting the course.[78] At that election, she supported Paul Boateng and Ian Wilson, Labour's candidates for Hertfordshire West and Watford, respectively. She was also a member of the Arts for Labour group.[81]

In 1986, Jackson visited Ethiopia as part of Oxfam's efforts to help with the famine there, and in 1989 she approached VSO about the chance of working in Africa for a couple of years. She got involved in the African National Congress campaign against apartheid in South Africa, and in September 1988 chaired a United Nations committee on the cultural boycott.[78] Jackson appeared in a party political broadcast for Labour in February 1987.[82] In June that year, she was present at a campaign rally with Labour leader Neil Kinnock for the general election.[83]

In December 1989, it was rumoured that Jackson had been approached by two branches of Leeds East CLP to succeed their Labour MP, Denis Healey. However, according to her biographer, Chris Bryant, she turned down this opportunity. In late 1989, two members of Hampstead and Highgate CLP got in touch with Jackson about the possibility of standing there. Despite having never been to a Labour ward meeting, she won over the local party, and triumphed in the ballot, which took place on 28 March 1990. Jackson defeated three candidates who were all politically to her left: Kate Allen (Ken Livingstone's partner and a Camden councillor), economic history lecturer Sarah Palmer (daughter of former Labour MP Arthur Palmer) and Maureen Robinson, a previous Mayor of Camden.[84][85][86]

Jackson has since stated that she felt Britain was being "destroyed" by the policies of the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative government, so that she was willing to do "anything that was legal" to oppose her.[87] In November 1990, Thatcher stood down as prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party. She was replaced by John Major, who would lead the party into the next general election.[88] At the time, Hampstead and Highgate was held by the Conservative Geoffrey Finsberg, who had announced his retirement as an MP. Finsberg had represented the constituency and its predecessor, Hampstead, since 1970, when he had gained it from the last Labour MP to be elected for the seat.[89]

In Parliament

Jackson retired from acting in 1991 in order to devote herself to politics full-time as the prospective parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Highgate.[90] Although her party did not win the 1992 general election, as had been speculated, there was an above average swing to Labour in her constituency, and she gained the seat, narrowly beating the Conservative candidate Oliver Letwin, a former adviser to prime minister Thatcher.[91][92][93] Jackson, whose campaign had been sponsored by the train drivers' union, ASLEF, was the first of Labour's 1992 intake to join the front bench when she became shadow transport minister in July 1996.[94][95]

Following Labour's landslide victory in the 1997 general election, which saw her comfortably re-elected, she was appointed as a junior minister in the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair,[96] with responsibility for transport in London.[97] She resigned from the post in 1999 before an unsuccessful attempt to be nominated as the Labour candidate for the election of the first Mayor of London in 2000. In Labour's selection ballot, she came a distant third behind Frank Dobson and Ken Livingstone, being eliminated in the first round of voting with 4.4% of the total.[98] Jackson was once again re-elected to represent her constituency at the 2001 general election.[99]

As a high-profile backbencher, Jackson became a regular critic of Blair over his plans to introduce higher education tuition fees in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. She also called for him to resign following the Judicial Enquiry by Lord Hutton in 2003 surrounding the reasons for going to war in Iraq and the death of government adviser Dr. David Kelly.[100][101][102][103] At the subsequent 2005 general election, she held her seat, albeit with a reduced majority and a swing to the Conservatives, who had selected local councillor Piers Wauchope.[104]

By October 2005, her disagreements with Blair's leadership swelled to a point where she threatened to challenge the prime minister as a stalking horse candidate in a leadership contest if he did not stand down within a reasonable amount of time. On 31 October 2006, Jackson was one of 12 Labour MPs to back Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party's call for an inquiry into the Iraq War.[105]

Her constituency boundaries changed for the 2010 general election. The Gospel Oak and Highgate wards became part of Holborn and St Pancras, and the new Hampstead and Kilburn constituency took in territory from Brent to include Brondesbury, Kilburn and Queens Park wards (from the old Brent East and Brent South seats). On 6 May 2010, Jackson was elected as the MP for the new Hampstead and Kilburn constituency by a margin of 42 votes over Conservative Chris Philp, with the Liberal Democrat candidate Edward Fordham less than a thousand votes behind them. She had the closest result in England, and the second smallest majority of any MP at the 2010 election.[106][107][108] Jackson's seat was marginal for most of her time in politics, with the 1997 election being the only occasion on which she received an absolute majority of votes cast in the constituency.[97]

In June 2011, Jackson announced that, presuming the Parliament elected in 2010 lasted until 2015, she would not seek re-election. She stated: "I will be almost 80 and by then it will be time for someone else to have a turn."[109] The eventual election was held two days before her 79th birthday, 23 years after she had first entered the House of Commons.

In April 2013, Jackson gave a speech in parliament following the death of Margaret Thatcher.[110] She accused Thatcher of treating "vices as virtues" and stated that, because of Thatcherism, the UK was susceptible to unprecedented unemployment rates and homelessness.[111][112] Another speech of Jackson's went viral in June 2014 when she gave a scathing assessment of Iain Duncan Smith's tenure as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, telling him that he was responsible for the "destruction of the welfare state and the total and utter incompetence of his department".[113][114]

Views

Jackson is a socialist, and was generally considered to be a traditional left-winger during her political career, often disagreeing with the dominant Blairite governing Third Way faction in the Labour Party; she rebelled against her party in parliamentary votes on a number of occasions. However, she was also opposed to the left-wing politics of Arthur Scargill and Militant which dominated the party's battles in the 1980s. Jackson labelled Militant and Derek Hatton's politics as "self-indulgent crap", and she sent leader Neil Kinnock a congratulatory telegram after his high-profile 1985 Labour Party conference speech, in which he criticised the activities of Militant et al.[115][116][117] In the 1992 Labour leadership election, she supported the successful candidate, John Smith, and two years later, backed Tony Blair, who won the contest, subsequently becoming prime minister.[118]

Jackson opposes the British monarchy, and is a republican.[119] The Guardian's Simon Hattenstone summed up Jackson's views as "traditional Labour, solidarity, feminism".[120] Jackson has been an outspoken feminist, criticising the lack of gender equality for women.[121]

Jackson voiced her support for Blair's successor as prime minister, Gordon Brown, in 2008.[122] Brown appeared with Jackson on a campaign visit for the 2010 general election, with him describing her as "a very close friend".[123] In the 2010 Labour leadership election, with Brown having stood down, Jackson voted for David Miliband, considered to be more of a political moderate than his older brother Ed (a figure on the party's soft left), who was ultimately elected as party leader.[124]

Following her departure from parliament, the Labour Party elected Jeremy Corbyn as its leader. Jackson has stated that she supported him "as a person", and would have nominated him in the 2015 leadership election. However, she qualified her support, adding, "Never in a million years would I have voted for him, though."[120]

In the 1975 referendum, Jackson voted against Britain joining the European Economic Community. She subsequently changed her mind on the issue, however, and supported Britain remaining in the European Union in the 2016 referendum.[125][101] Despite this, she disagreed with calls for a second vote. To this effect, she stated her admiration for the then prime minister Theresa May; when this was queried by the interviewer, The Guardian's Emma Brockes, Jackson responded: "I've certainly admired her in the way she has handled herself over Brexit, yes! I do admire her for her tenacity, trying to deliver the referendum result to the people of our country, even though I disapproved of it."[101][126]

Interviewed in July 2020, shortly after Sir Keir Starmer had taken over as party leader from Corbyn, Jackson declared herself happy with him in the role.[127] In 2022, she commented on Starmer, "I just wish Keir would get someone to help him develop his voice," calling it "one of his big drawbacks".[72]

Personal life

In 1957, Jackson met Roy Hodges, a stage manager and fellow actor in their repertory theatre company. The pair soon embarked upon a relationship.[128][129] Jackson and Hodges were married on 2 August 1958 at St Marylebone Register Office in London.[130] In 1969, their son, Daniel, was born; Jackson was six months pregnant when filming on Women in Love was completed.[131] Dan Hodges is a former Labour Party adviser and commentator, who works as a newspaper columnist for The Mail on Sunday.[132][133] When her son told her he was going to write for the conservative newspaper, Jackson responded, "Well, I'll have to emigrate!"[126]

Jackson's marriage was running into difficulties by the early 1970s, and in 1975, she began an affair with Andy Phillips, the lighting director for a production of Hedda Gabler which she was starring in.[134] Roy Hodges sued Jackson for divorce on the grounds of her adultery with Phillips in November that year, and the couple were divorced in 1976.[134][135] Jackson and Phillips were in an on-off relationship until 1981.[136] It was reported in 2016 that she had been "happily single for decades".[120]

During the early years of her career, Jackson and her husband lived in Swiss Cottage, north west London, an area she would later represent as an MP.[137] In the late 1960s, the couple moved to Blackheath, south east London.[138] As of 2020, she lives in a basement granny flat there, with her son, his wife, and their son, her only grandchild, upstairs.[101] Jackson listed her interests in Who's Who as cooking, gardening and reading Jane Austen.[7]

Acting credits

Main article: List of Glenda Jackson performances

Awards and honours

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Glenda Jackson

Commonwealth honours

Commonwealth honours
Country Date Appointment Post-nominal letters
  United Kingdom 1978 – present Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) CBE

Scholastic

Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships
Location Date School Position
  England Liverpool John Moores University Honorary Fellow[139]

Honorary degrees

Location Date School Degree Status
  England 9 July 1978 University of Liverpool Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.)[140]
  Pennsylvania 1981 University of Scranton Doctorate[141]
  England 1987 Keele University Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.)[142]
  England 1988 University of Exeter Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.)[143]
  England 1992 University of Durham Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.)[144]

Notes

  1. ^ Jackson "was approached by a member of the Bristol Labour Party to stand for Parliament in what was a safe Tory constituency."[80] This is most likely to have been Bristol West, as it was the only Conservative-held seat in Bristol prior to the 1979 general election. See also Politics of Bristol.

References

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  2. ^ Andy Bloxom (7 May 2010). "General Election 2010: the 10 closest battles". The Telegraph. London: The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  3. ^ Bryant, Christopher (1999). Glenda Jackson : the biography. Hammersmith, London: HarperCollinsPublishers. p. 1. ISBN 0-00-255911-0. OCLC 42790640.
  4. ^ Bryant, Christopher (1999). Glenda Jackson : the biography. Hammersmith, London: HarperCollinsPublishers. p. 2. ISBN 0-00-255911-0. OCLC 42790640.
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  8. ^ Bryant, Christopher (1999). Glenda Jackson : the biography. Hammersmith, London: HarperCollinsPublishers. pp. 8–9. ISBN 0-00-255911-0. OCLC 42790640.
  9. ^ Teeman, Tim (1 May 2018). "Tony Nominee Glenda Jackson on Awards, Jeremy Corbyn, Anti-Semitism, and Dancing With Fred Astaire". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  10. ^ Bryant, Christopher (1999). Glenda Jackson : the biography. Hammersmith, London: HarperCollinsPublishers. p. 20. ISBN 0-00-255911-0. OCLC 42790640.
  11. ^ Jennifer Uglow, et al. The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography. London: Macmillan, 1999, p. 276 (US: Boston: Northeastern University Press)
  12. ^ Bryant, Christopher (1999). Glenda Jackson : the biography. Hammersmith, London: HarperCollinsPublishers. p. 24. ISBN 0-00-255911-0. OCLC 42790640.
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  15. ^ a b "Glenda Jackson (1936– )", in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 9780192800916
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glenda, jackson, glenda, jackson, born, 1936, english, actress, former, member, parliament, academy, award, best, actress, twice, role, gudrun, brangwen, romantic, drama, women, love, 1970, again, role, vickie, allessio, romantic, comedy, touch, class, 1973, r. Glenda May Jackson CBE born 9 May 1936 is an English actress and former Member of Parliament MP She has won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice for her role as Gudrun Brangwen in the romantic drama Women in Love 1970 and again for her role as Vickie Allessio in the romantic comedy A Touch of Class 1973 She received praise for her performances as Alex Greville in the drama film Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971 and Elizabeth I in the BBC television serial Elizabeth R 1971 winning two Primetime Emmy Awards for the latter In 2018 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in a revival of Edward Albee s Three Tall Women becoming one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting in the US Glenda JacksonCBEJackson in 1971Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for TransportIn office 6 May 1997 29 July 1999Prime MinisterTony BlairPreceded byJohn BowisSucceeded byKeith HillMember of Parliamentfor Hampstead and KilburnHampstead and Highgate 1992 2010 In office 9 April 1992 30 March 2015Preceded byGeoffrey FinsbergSucceeded byTulip SiddiqPersonal detailsBornGlenda May Jackson 1936 05 09 9 May 1936 age 86 Birkenhead Cheshire EnglandPolitical partyLabourSpouseRoy Hodges m 1958 div 1976 wbr ChildrenDan HodgesJackson s voice source source source The Film Programme 6 July 2007 1 Jackson took a hiatus from acting to take on a career in politics from 1992 to 2015 and was elected as the Labour Party MP for Hampstead and Highgate in the 1992 general election She served as a junior transport minister from 1997 to 1999 during the government of Tony Blair later becoming critical of Blair After constituency boundary changes she represented Hampstead and Kilburn from 2010 At the 2010 general election her majority of 42 votes was one of the closest results of the election 2 Jackson stood down at the 2015 general election and has since made a successful return to acting Contents 1 Early life 2 Acting career 2 1 1957 1968 Early career 2 2 1969 1980 Film and television 2 3 1980 1992 Later acting career 2 4 2015 present Return to acting 3 Political career 3 1 Labour Party 3 2 In Parliament 3 3 Views 4 Personal life 5 Acting credits 6 Awards and honours 6 1 Commonwealth honours 6 2 Scholastic 6 3 Honorary degrees 7 Notes 8 References 9 External linksEarly life EditGlenda Jackson was born at 151 Market Street in Birkenhead Cheshire on Saturday 9 May 1936 Her mother named her after the Hollywood film star Glenda Farrell 3 Shortly after her birth the family moved to Hoylake in the Wirral 4 Glenda s family were very poor and lived in a two up two down house at 21 Lake Place with an outside toilet Her father Harry was a builder while her mother Joan nee Pearce worked on the local supermarket checkout pulled pints in a pub and was a domestic cleaner 5 6 7 The oldest of four daughters Glenda was educated at Holy Trinity Church of England and Cathcart Street primary schools followed by West Kirby County Grammar School for Girls in nearby West Kirby and performed in the Townswomen s Guild drama group during her teens 6 7 8 9 Jackson made her first acting appearance in J B Priestley s Mystery of Greenfingers in 1952 for the YMCA Players in Hoylake 10 She worked for two years in Boots the Chemists before winning a scholarship in 1954 to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art RADA in London 11 Jackson moved to the capital to begin the course in early 1955 12 Acting career Edit1957 1968 Early career Edit In January 1957 Jackson made her professional stage debut in Ted Willis s Doctor in the House at the Connaught Theatre in Worthing 13 This was followed by Terence Rattigan s Separate Tables while Jackson was still at RADA 14 and she began appearing in repertory theatre 15 She was also a stage manager at Crewe in repertory theatre 7 From 1958 to 1961 Jackson went through a period of two and a half years in which she was unable to find acting work She unsuccessfully auditioned for the Royal Shakespeare Company RSC and undertook what she later described as a series of soul destroying jobs This included waitressing at The 2i s Coffee Bar clerical work for a large City of London firm answering phones for a theatrical agent and a role at British Home Stores She also worked as a Bluecoat at Butlin s Pwllheli holiday resort on the Llŷn Peninsula in North West Wales where her new husband and fellow actor Roy Hodges was a Redcoat Jackson eventually returned to repertory theatre in Dundee but worked in bars in between acting jobs 16 Jackson made her film debut in a bit part in the kitchen sink drama This Sporting Life 1963 A member of the RSC for four years from 1963 she originally joined for director Peter Brook s Theatre of Cruelty season which included Peter Weiss Marat Sade 1965 where she played an inmate of an insane asylum portraying Charlotte Corday the assassin of Jean Paul Marat 17 The production ran on Broadway in 1965 and in Paris 15 Jackson also appeared in the 1967 film version She appeared as Ophelia in Peter Hall s production of Hamlet the same year 18 Critic Penelope Gilliatt thought Jackson was the only Ophelia she had seen who was ready to play the Prince himself 19 The RSC s staging at the Aldwych Theatre of US 1966 a protest play against the Vietnam War also featured Jackson and she appeared in its film version Tell Me Lies 20 Later that year she starred in the psychological drama Negatives 1968 which was not a huge financial success but won her more good reviews 1969 1980 Film and television Edit Jackson s starring role in Ken Russell s film adaptation of D H Lawrence s Women in Love 1969 led to her first Academy Award for Best Actress Brian McFarlane the main author of The Encyclopedia of British Film wrote Her blazing intelligence sexual challenge and abrasiveness were at the service of a superbly written role in a film with a passion rare in the annals of British cinema 21 In the process of gaining funding for The Music Lovers 1970 from United Artists Russell explained it as the story of a homosexual who marries a nymphomaniac 22 the couple being the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Richard Chamberlain and Antonina Miliukova played by Jackson The film received mixed reviews in the U S the anonymous reviewer in Variety wrote of the two principals Their performances are more dramatically bombastic than sympathetic or sometimes even believable 23 The Music Lovers was a box office success in Europe reaching No 1 in the UK s weekly rankings in March 1971 It was the first of four films starring Jackson which would top the box office charts in her native country 24 25 Jackson was initially interested in the role of Sister Jeanne in The Devils 1971 Russell s next film but turned it down after script rewrites and deciding that she did not wish to play a third neurotic character in a row 26 Jackson had her head shaved to play Queen Elizabeth I in the BBC s serial Elizabeth R 1971 After the series aired on PBS in the US she received two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performance She also played Queen Elizabeth in the film Mary Queen of Scots and gained an Academy Award nomination and a BAFTA Award for her role in John Schlesinger s Sunday Bloody Sunday both 1971 27 In July Sunday Bloody Sunday topped the UK box office charts for two weeks 25 That year British exhibitors voted her the 6th most popular star at the British box office 28 Jackson s popularity was such that 1971 saw her receive Best Film Actress awards from the Variety Club of Great Britain who also awarded her similarly in 1975 and 1978 the New York Film Critics and the US National Society of Film Critics 7 Mary Queen of Scots was premiered in December 1971 in Los Angeles and was the 1972 Royal Film Performance in Britain attended by the Queen Mother Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon 29 30 The film reached No 1 in the UK box office charts in April that year a position it held for five consecutive weeks 25 Jackson made the first of several appearances with Morecambe and Wise in their 1971 Christmas special Appearing in a comedy sketch as Cleopatra for the BBC Morecambe and Wise Show she delivered the line All men are fools and what makes them so is having beauty like what I have got 31 Her later appearances included a song and dance routine where she was pushed offstage by Eric a period drama about Queen Victoria and another musical routine in their Thames Television series where she was elevated ten feet in the air by a misbehaving swivel chair 32 33 Jackson and Wise also appeared in a 1981 information film for the Blood Transfusion Service 34 Filmmaker Melvin Frank saw Jackson s comedy skills on the Morecambe and Wise Show and offered her the lead female role in his romantic comedy A Touch of Class 1973 co starring George Segal which was a UK box office No 1 in June 1973 25 In February 1974 Jackson s role in the film won her the Academy Award for Best Actress She continued to work in the theatre returning to the RSC for the lead in Ibsen s Hedda Gabler A later film version directed by Trevor Nunn was released as Hedda 1975 for which Jackson was nominated for an Oscar In The New York Times Vincent Canby wrote This version of Hedda Gabler is all Miss Jackson s Hedda and I must say great fun to watch Miss Jackson s technical virtuosity is particularly suited to a character like Hedda Her command of her voice and her body as well as the Jackson mannerisms have the effect of separating the actress from the character in a very curious way 35 In 1978 she scored box office success in the United States in the romantic comedy House Calls co starring Walter Matthau with the film spending two weeks at No 1 in the US box office rankings 36 37 38 House Calls was the biggest box office hit of her career in the US 39 That year she was awarded a CBE 7 In 1979 she reunited with her A Touch of Class colleagues Segal and Frank for the romantic comedy Lost and Found 40 41 Jackson and Matthau teamed again in the comedy Hopscotch 1980 which debuted at No 1 in its opening weekend at the US box office also spending its second week in the top spot 42 43 44 For her 1980 appearance on The Muppet Show Jackson told the producers she would perform any material they liked In her appearance she has a delusion that she is a pirate captain who takes over the Muppet Theatre as her ship 45 1980 1992 Later acting career Edit Fifteen years after the New York engagement of Marat Sade Jackson returned to Broadway in Andrew Davies s Rose 1981 opposite Jessica Tandy both actresses received Tony nominations for their roles 46 In September 1983 The Glenda Jackson Theatre in Birkenhead was named in her honour The theatre was attached to Wirral Metropolitan College but demolished in 2005 following the establishment of a purpose built site for students 47 In 1985 she appeared as Nina Leeds in a revival of Eugene O Neill s Strange Interlude at the Nederlander Theatre in a production which had originated in London the previous year and ran for eight weeks 6 John Beaufort for The Christian Science Monitor wrote Bravura is the inevitable word for Miss Jackson s display of feminine wiles and brilliant technique 48 Frank Rich in The New York Times thought Jackson with her helmet of hair and gashed features when Leeds is a young woman looks like a cubist portrait of Louise Brooks and later when the character has aged several decades is mesmerizing as a Zelda Fitzgeraldesque neurotic a rotting and spiteful middle aged matron and finally a spent sphinx like widow happily embracing extinction 49 Herbert Wise directed a British television version of O Neill s drama which was first broadcast in the US as part of PBS s American Playhouse in January 1988 50 In November 1984 Jackson appeared in the title role of Robert David MacDonald s English translation of Racine s Phedre titled Phedra at The Old Vic The play was designed and directed by Philip Prowse and Robert Eddison played Theramenes 51 52 The Daily Telegraph s John Barber wrote of her performance Wonderfully impressive The actress finds a voice as jagged and hoarse as her torment Benedict Nightingale in the New Statesman was intrigued that Jackson didn t go in for nobility but played Racine s feverish queen as if to say that being skewered in the guts by Cupid is an ugly bitter humiliating business 53 The costume which Prowse designed for Jackson s performance is in the Victoria and Albert Museum 54 and iconic photographs of Jackson in the role can be found online 55 56 In 1989 Jackson appeared in Ken Russell s The Rainbow playing Anna Brangwen mother of Gudrun the part for which she had won her first Academy Award twenty years earlier The same year she played Martha in a Los Angeles production of Edward Albee s Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Doolittle Theatre now the Ricardo Montalban Theatre Directed by the playwright himself this staging featured John Lithgow as George Dan Sullivan in the Los Angeles Times wrote that Jackson and Lithgow performed with the assurance of dedicated character assassins not your hire and salary types with the actors being able to display their character s capacity for antipathy 57 Albee was disappointed with this production pointing to Jackson who he thought had retreated back to the thing she can do very well that ice cold performance I don t know whether she got scared but in rehearsal she was being Martha and the closer we got to opening the less Martha she was 58 She performed the lead role in Howard Barker s Scenes from an Execution as Galactia a sixteenth century female Venetian artist at the Almeida Theatre in 1990 59 It was an adaptation of Barker s 1984 radio play in which Jackson had played the same role 60 2015 present Return to acting Edit In 2015 Jackson returned to acting following a 23 year absence having retired from politics She took the role of Dide the ancient matriarch in a series of Radio 4 plays Blood Sex and Money based on a series of novels by Emile Zola 61 She returned to the stage at the end of 2016 playing the title role in William Shakespeare s King Lear at the Old Vic Theatre in London in a production running from 25 October to 3 December Jackson was nominated for Best Actress at the Olivier Awards for her role but ultimately lost out to Billie Piper She did however win the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress at the 2017 Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her performance 62 Dominic Cavendish of The Telegraph wrote Glenda Jackson is tremendous as King Lear No ifs no buts In returning to the stage at the age of 80 25 years after her last performance as the Clytemnestra like Christine in Eugene O Neill s Mourning Becomes Electra at the Glasgow Citizens she has pulled off one of those 11th hour feats of human endeavour that will surely be talked about for years to come by those who see it 63 In 2018 Jackson returned to Broadway in a revival of Edward Albee s Three Tall Women winning the 2018 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play Marilyn Stasio of Variety wrote Watching Glenda Jackson in theatrical flight is like looking straight into the sun Her expressive face registers her thoughts while guarding her feelings But it s the voice that really thrills Deeply pitched and clarion clear it s the commanding voice of stern authority Don t mess with this household god or she ll turn you to stone 64 Jackson returned to the role of King Lear on Broadway in a production that opened in April 2019 65 Director Sam Gold describes her portrayal of Lear in The New York Times Magazine She is going to go through something most people don t go through You re all invited Glenda Jackson is going to endure this and you re going to witness it 66 In 2019 after a 27 year absence Jackson returned to television drama portraying an elderly grandmother struggling with dementia in Elizabeth Is Missing on BBC One based on the novel of the same name by Emma Healey for which she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress and International Emmy Award for Best Actress 67 68 It was reported in February 2021 that Jackson would co star with Michael Caine in The Great Escaper a film telling the true story of Bernard Jordan s escape from his care home to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D Day landings in France Caine will play Jordan with Jackson as his wife Irene 69 Caine and Jackson previously starred together in The Romantic Englishwoman 1976 70 In July 2022 the British Film Institute celebrated her film and television career with a month long retrospective season at the BFI Southbank in London As well as screenings of her work the programme included Glenda Jackson in Conversation in which she was interviewed about her career live on stage by broadcaster John Wilson 71 72 73 Political career EditJackson joined the Labour Party in the early 1950s at the age of 16 74 Her earlier campaigns were not party political however In 1978 she was one of the public figures who lent their name as a sponsor to the Anti Nazi League 75 The same year she appeared in a print advertisement for Oxfam 76 Jackson was on the executive of the National Association of Voluntary Hostels and spoke at rallies for the housing charity Shelter Human rights were also an area of interest and she joined a demonstration outside the Indonesian Embassy to protest against the detention of political prisoners She was involved in children s charities as president of the Toy Libraries Association and narrating programmes for UNICEF She also gave her time and money to a home for emotionally disturbed children in Berkshire run by former actress Coral Atkins 77 Jackson was a supporter of the National Abortion Campaign and organised a benefit evening for them at the Cambridge Theatre which raised over 3 000 She also supported Dr Una Kroll s Women s Rights candidacy for Sutton and Cheam at the October 1974 general election In addition Jackson made several appearances on BBC Radio 4 s Any Questions debate programme during this period of her career 77 She had considered becoming a social worker and in 1979 began a social science degree at the Open University but dropped out a few months later after falling behind with her essays 78 Jackson appeared in a number of charity films including on behalf of International Year of the Child Voluntary Service Overseas and Oxfam Other such films featured her campaigning against polio and the arms trade 79 Labour Party Edit Jackson s name was linked to several parliamentary seats over the years she was approached by a Constituency Labour Party in Bristol to stand at the 1979 general election but this did not materialise 77 note 1 An approach was also made to her about the possibility of being a candidate for the marginal Welsh seat of Bridgend at the 1983 general election which she turned down in order to pursue a humanities degree at Thames Polytechnic However she dropped out before starting the course 78 At that election she supported Paul Boateng and Ian Wilson Labour s candidates for Hertfordshire West and Watford respectively She was also a member of the Arts for Labour group 81 In 1986 Jackson visited Ethiopia as part of Oxfam s efforts to help with the famine there and in 1989 she approached VSO about the chance of working in Africa for a couple of years She got involved in the African National Congress campaign against apartheid in South Africa and in September 1988 chaired a United Nations committee on the cultural boycott 78 Jackson appeared in a party political broadcast for Labour in February 1987 82 In June that year she was present at a campaign rally with Labour leader Neil Kinnock for the general election 83 In December 1989 it was rumoured that Jackson had been approached by two branches of Leeds East CLP to succeed their Labour MP Denis Healey However according to her biographer Chris Bryant she turned down this opportunity In late 1989 two members of Hampstead and Highgate CLP got in touch with Jackson about the possibility of standing there Despite having never been to a Labour ward meeting she won over the local party and triumphed in the ballot which took place on 28 March 1990 Jackson defeated three candidates who were all politically to her left Kate Allen Ken Livingstone s partner and a Camden councillor economic history lecturer Sarah Palmer daughter of former Labour MP Arthur Palmer and Maureen Robinson a previous Mayor of Camden 84 85 86 Jackson has since stated that she felt Britain was being destroyed by the policies of the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative government so that she was willing to do anything that was legal to oppose her 87 In November 1990 Thatcher stood down as prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party She was replaced by John Major who would lead the party into the next general election 88 At the time Hampstead and Highgate was held by the Conservative Geoffrey Finsberg who had announced his retirement as an MP Finsberg had represented the constituency and its predecessor Hampstead since 1970 when he had gained it from the last Labour MP to be elected for the seat 89 In Parliament Edit Jackson retired from acting in 1991 in order to devote herself to politics full time as the prospective parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Highgate 90 Although her party did not win the 1992 general election as had been speculated there was an above average swing to Labour in her constituency and she gained the seat narrowly beating the Conservative candidate Oliver Letwin a former adviser to prime minister Thatcher 91 92 93 Jackson whose campaign had been sponsored by the train drivers union ASLEF was the first of Labour s 1992 intake to join the front bench when she became shadow transport minister in July 1996 94 95 Following Labour s landslide victory in the 1997 general election which saw her comfortably re elected she was appointed as a junior minister in the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair 96 with responsibility for transport in London 97 She resigned from the post in 1999 before an unsuccessful attempt to be nominated as the Labour candidate for the election of the first Mayor of London in 2000 In Labour s selection ballot she came a distant third behind Frank Dobson and Ken Livingstone being eliminated in the first round of voting with 4 4 of the total 98 Jackson was once again re elected to represent her constituency at the 2001 general election 99 As a high profile backbencher Jackson became a regular critic of Blair over his plans to introduce higher education tuition fees in England Wales and Northern Ireland She also called for him to resign following the Judicial Enquiry by Lord Hutton in 2003 surrounding the reasons for going to war in Iraq and the death of government adviser Dr David Kelly 100 101 102 103 At the subsequent 2005 general election she held her seat albeit with a reduced majority and a swing to the Conservatives who had selected local councillor Piers Wauchope 104 By October 2005 her disagreements with Blair s leadership swelled to a point where she threatened to challenge the prime minister as a stalking horse candidate in a leadership contest if he did not stand down within a reasonable amount of time On 31 October 2006 Jackson was one of 12 Labour MPs to back Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party s call for an inquiry into the Iraq War 105 Her constituency boundaries changed for the 2010 general election The Gospel Oak and Highgate wards became part of Holborn and St Pancras and the new Hampstead and Kilburn constituency took in territory from Brent to include Brondesbury Kilburn and Queens Park wards from the old Brent East and Brent South seats On 6 May 2010 Jackson was elected as the MP for the new Hampstead and Kilburn constituency by a margin of 42 votes over Conservative Chris Philp with the Liberal Democrat candidate Edward Fordham less than a thousand votes behind them She had the closest result in England and the second smallest majority of any MP at the 2010 election 106 107 108 Jackson s seat was marginal for most of her time in politics with the 1997 election being the only occasion on which she received an absolute majority of votes cast in the constituency 97 In June 2011 Jackson announced that presuming the Parliament elected in 2010 lasted until 2015 she would not seek re election She stated I will be almost 80 and by then it will be time for someone else to have a turn 109 The eventual election was held two days before her 79th birthday 23 years after she had first entered the House of Commons In April 2013 Jackson gave a speech in parliament following the death of Margaret Thatcher 110 She accused Thatcher of treating vices as virtues and stated that because of Thatcherism the UK was susceptible to unprecedented unemployment rates and homelessness 111 112 Another speech of Jackson s went viral in June 2014 when she gave a scathing assessment of Iain Duncan Smith s tenure as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions telling him that he was responsible for the destruction of the welfare state and the total and utter incompetence of his department 113 114 Views Edit Jackson is a socialist and was generally considered to be a traditional left winger during her political career often disagreeing with the dominant Blairite governing Third Way faction in the Labour Party she rebelled against her party in parliamentary votes on a number of occasions However she was also opposed to the left wing politics of Arthur Scargill and Militant which dominated the party s battles in the 1980s Jackson labelled Militant and Derek Hatton s politics as self indulgent crap and she sent leader Neil Kinnock a congratulatory telegram after his high profile 1985 Labour Party conference speech in which he criticised the activities of Militant et al 115 116 117 In the 1992 Labour leadership election she supported the successful candidate John Smith and two years later backed Tony Blair who won the contest subsequently becoming prime minister 118 Jackson opposes the British monarchy and is a republican 119 The Guardian s Simon Hattenstone summed up Jackson s views as traditional Labour solidarity feminism 120 Jackson has been an outspoken feminist criticising the lack of gender equality for women 121 Jackson voiced her support for Blair s successor as prime minister Gordon Brown in 2008 122 Brown appeared with Jackson on a campaign visit for the 2010 general election with him describing her as a very close friend 123 In the 2010 Labour leadership election with Brown having stood down Jackson voted for David Miliband considered to be more of a political moderate than his older brother Ed a figure on the party s soft left who was ultimately elected as party leader 124 Following her departure from parliament the Labour Party elected Jeremy Corbyn as its leader Jackson has stated that she supported him as a person and would have nominated him in the 2015 leadership election However she qualified her support adding Never in a million years would I have voted for him though 120 In the 1975 referendum Jackson voted against Britain joining the European Economic Community She subsequently changed her mind on the issue however and supported Britain remaining in the European Union in the 2016 referendum 125 101 Despite this she disagreed with calls for a second vote To this effect she stated her admiration for the then prime minister Theresa May when this was queried by the interviewer The Guardian s Emma Brockes Jackson responded I ve certainly admired her in the way she has handled herself over Brexit yes I do admire her for her tenacity trying to deliver the referendum result to the people of our country even though I disapproved of it 101 126 Interviewed in July 2020 shortly after Sir Keir Starmer had taken over as party leader from Corbyn Jackson declared herself happy with him in the role 127 In 2022 she commented on Starmer I just wish Keir would get someone to help him develop his voice calling it one of his big drawbacks 72 Personal life EditIn 1957 Jackson met Roy Hodges a stage manager and fellow actor in their repertory theatre company The pair soon embarked upon a relationship 128 129 Jackson and Hodges were married on 2 August 1958 at St Marylebone Register Office in London 130 In 1969 their son Daniel was born Jackson was six months pregnant when filming on Women in Love was completed 131 Dan Hodges is a former Labour Party adviser and commentator who works as a newspaper columnist for The Mail on Sunday 132 133 When her son told her he was going to write for the conservative newspaper Jackson responded Well I ll have to emigrate 126 Jackson s marriage was running into difficulties by the early 1970s and in 1975 she began an affair with Andy Phillips the lighting director for a production of Hedda Gabler which she was starring in 134 Roy Hodges sued Jackson for divorce on the grounds of her adultery with Phillips in November that year and the couple were divorced in 1976 134 135 Jackson and Phillips were in an on off relationship until 1981 136 It was reported in 2016 that she had been happily single for decades 120 During the early years of her career Jackson and her husband lived in Swiss Cottage north west London an area she would later represent as an MP 137 In the late 1960s the couple moved to Blackheath south east London 138 As of 2020 update she lives in a basement granny flat there with her son his wife and their son her only grandchild upstairs 101 Jackson listed her interests in Who s Who as cooking gardening and reading Jane Austen 7 Acting credits EditMain article List of Glenda Jackson performancesAwards and honours EditMain article List of awards and nominations received by Glenda Jackson Commonwealth honours Edit Commonwealth honoursCountry Date Appointment Post nominal letters United Kingdom 1978 present Commander of the Order of the British Empire Civil Division CBEScholastic Edit Chancellor visitor governor rector and fellowshipsLocation Date School Position England Liverpool John Moores University Honorary Fellow 139 This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items July 2020 Honorary degrees Edit Location Date School Degree Status England 9 July 1978 University of Liverpool Doctor of Letters D Litt 140 Pennsylvania 1981 University of Scranton Doctorate 141 England 1987 Keele University Doctor of Letters D Litt 142 England 1988 University of Exeter Doctor of Letters D Litt 143 England 1992 University of Durham Doctor of Letters D Litt 144 This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items July 2020 Notes Edit Jackson was approached by a member of the Bristol Labour Party to stand for Parliament in what was a safe Tory constituency 80 This is most likely to have been Bristol West as it was the only Conservative held seat in Bristol prior to the 1979 general election See also Politics of Bristol References Edit Glenda Jackson The Film Programme 6 July 2007 BBC Radio 4 Retrieved 18 January 2014 Andy Bloxom 7 May 2010 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Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers pp 8 9 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Teeman Tim 1 May 2018 Tony Nominee Glenda Jackson on Awards Jeremy Corbyn Anti Semitism and Dancing With Fred Astaire The Daily Beast Retrieved 9 July 2022 Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers p 20 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Jennifer Uglow et al The Macmillan Dictionary of Women s Biography London Macmillan 1999 p 276 US Boston Northeastern University Press Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers p 24 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers pp 30 255 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 D Keith Peacock Jackson Glenda May in Colin Chambers ed The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre London Continuum 2002 2005 p 398 a b Glenda Jackson 1936 in Who s Who in the Twentieth Century Oxford Oxford University Press 1999 ISBN 9780192800916 Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers pp 38 42 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Edgar David 18 July 2010 The best performance I ve ever seen The Guardian London England Retrieved 10 November 2018 Hamlet Past Productions On the RSC stage 1965 BBC Penelope Gilliatt Making Sunday Bloody Sunday The Criterion Collection reprint of Gilliatt s introduction to the US publication of the script 1971 Peter Brook Returns to the RSC to Host a Theatre of Protest Event Archived 13 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine RSC October 2011 A documentary of the stage production also exists see Stuart Heaney Benefit of the Doubt 1967 BFI screenonline McFarlane Brian ed 2003 The Encyclopedia of British Film London England Methuen BFI p 339 ISBN 978 0413773081 Del Valle David 20 June 2012 Camp David June 2012 Tchiakovsky is Just Not That Into You Films in Review Review The Music Lovers Variety Los Angeles California 31 December 1970 Retrieved 10 November 2018 Gallagher Paul 23 April 2021 Press Book for The Music Lovers The Story of a Homosexual who Fell in Love with a Nymphomaniac 1971 Flashbak Retrieved 25 July 2022 a b c d Swern Phil 1995 The Guinness book of box office hits Enfield Guinness Publishing ISBN 0 85112 670 7 OCLC 60281094 Crouse Richard 2012 Raising Hell Ken Russell and the Unmaking ofThe Devils ECW Press pp 47 48 ISBN 9781770902817 Film Actress in 1972 BAFTA Peter Waymark Richard Burton top draw in British cinemas The Times London 30 December 1971 2 The Times Digital Archive Web 11 July 2012 Mary Queen of Scots Blu ray review Cine Outsider cineoutsider Retrieved 25 July 2022 Queen Mother Princess Margaret British Royalty Royal Film premier 1972 retrieved 25 July 2022 via YouTube ThamesTv Eric Morecambe jokes and one liners The Telegraph 1 October 2015 ISSN 0307 1235 Retrieved 7 July 2022 BBC Two The Morecambe and Wise Show Christmas Show 1971 BBC Retrieved 7 July 2022 Glenda Jackson BFI Retrieved 7 July 2022 Blood Donor Glenda and Ernie 1981 BFI Retrieved 7 July 2022 Canby Vincent Hedda on Film Is All Glenda Jackson Retrieved 24 June 2018 House Calls 1978 Financial Information The Numbers Retrieved 21 July 2022 50 Top Grossing Films Variety 3 May 1978 p 15 50 Top Grossing Films Variety 10 May 1978 p 15 Glenda Jackson Box Office The Numbers Retrieved 25 July 2022 LOST AND FOUND Sony Pictures Entertainment Retrieved 21 July 2022 Lost and Found Park Circus Retrieved 21 July 2022 50 Top Grossing Films Variety 8 October 1980 p 9 Hopscotch People Lead Week s Pack of B O Contenders Variety 1 October 1980 p 3 50 Top Grossing Films Variety 15 October 1980 p 9 Wilkie Matt 6 November 2020 The Muppet Show 40 Years Later Glenda Jackson ToughPigs Retrieved 21 July 2022 Tony Awards 1981 WestendTheatre com westendtheatre com 1 January 2009 Retrieved 21 July 2022 I m glad it s going Liverpool Echo 25 February 2005 Retrieved 21 July 2022 Beaufort John Lively revival of O Neill s stormy Strange Interlude Christian Science Monitor 26 February 1985 Rich Frank 22 February 1985 Theater A Fresh Look for O Neill s Interlude The New York Times Retrieved 18 April 2020 O Connor John J 18 January 1988 TV Reviews Glenda Jackson in Strange Interlude The New York Times Retrieved 18 April 2020 Phedra theatre programme Proscenium for The Old Vic 1984 London The Old Vic Theatre Phedra 1984 Theatre Memorabilia co uk Retrieved 8 April 2022 Sullivan Dan 5 January 1985 Glenda Jackson Shows Firepower In Phedre Los Angeles Times ISSN 0458 3035 Retrieved 26 June 2018 Theatre Costume 1984 by Prowse Philip Victoria and Albert Museum Retrieved 8 April 2022 MW SC008 Glenda Jackson Iconic Images 6 September 2019 Retrieved 8 April 2022 Photostage co uk Photostage Ltd 21 February 2019 Retrieved 8 April 2022 Sullivan Dan Stage Review A Lower Key George and Martha Los Angeles Times 6 October 1989 Stephen J Bottoms Albee Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000 p 67 68 Wolf Matt 11 March 1990 Theater A New London Theater Team Is Attracting Stars The New York Times Retrieved 18 April 2020 Milling Jane Modern British Playwriting The 1980s Voices Documents New Interpretations A amp C Black 2012 p 30 Chisholm Kate 3 December 2015 There will be blood The Spectator Retrieved 2 March 2020 Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2017 Who won and why Evening Standard 5 December 2017 Retrieved 9 December 2017 Cavendish Dominic 5 November 2016 King Lear Old Vic review Glenda Jackson s performance will be talked about for years The Telegraph ISSN 0307 1235 Archived from the original on 11 January 2022 Retrieved 18 April 2020 Stasio Marilyn 29 March 2018 Broadway Review Three Tall Women With Glenda Jackson Laurie Metcalf Variety Retrieved 24 June 2018 McHenry Jackson 28 June 2018 The Indefatigable Glenda Jackson Will Return to Broadway As Lear in a New King Lear Vulture Retrieved 28 June 2018 Sehgal Parul 27 March 2019 At 82 Glenda Jackson Commands the Most Powerful Role in Theater New York Times Magazine New York City Retrieved 18 April 2020 TV Glenda Jackson on screen for the first time in over 25 years The Herald 6 December 2019 Retrieved 9 December 2019 Mangan Lucy 8 December 2019 Elizabeth Is Missing review Glenda Jackson shines in this heartrending whodunnit The Guardian Retrieved 9 December 2019 Ramachandran Naman 19 February 2021 Michael Caine Glenda Jackson Set for The Great Escaper Pathe to Sell at Berlin EFM Variety Retrieved 21 July 2022 The Romantic Englishwoman 1976 BFI Retrieved 21 July 2022 Announcing July 2022 at BFI Southbank Satyajit Ray Glenda Jackson In the Black Fantastic and more BFI Retrieved 6 July 2022 a b Griffiths Robbie 6 July 2022 Londoner s Diary Glenda Jackson Keir Starmer s voice is his big drawback Evening Standard Retrieved 6 July 2022 Glenda Jackson in Conversation BFI Southbank Programme Notes 5 July 2022 Retrieved 16 August 2022 The Palgrave Macmillan dictionary of women s biography Jenny Uglow Frances Hinton Maggy Hendry 4th ed New York Palgrave Macmillan 2005 p 292 ISBN 978 1 84972 418 0 OCLC 371218511 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint others link Never Again The Guardian 1 February 1978 p 2 Retrieved 27 July 2022 The day Glenda Jackson helped build an irrigation dam The Observer 26 February 1978 p 14 Retrieved 20 July 2022 a b c Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers pp 164 167 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 a b c Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers pp 192 193 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers p 264 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Woodward Ian 1985 Glenda Jackson a study in fire and ice London Weidenfeld and Nicolson p 132 ISBN 0 297 78533 8 OCLC 11658097 Woodward Ian 1985 Glenda Jackson a study in fire and ice London Weidenfeld and Nicolson p 132 ISBN 0 297 78533 8 OCLC 11658097 Steady with the props Glenda The Fulham Chronicle 26 February 1987 p 4 Retrieved 20 July 2022 Wainwright Martin 8 June 1987 When showbusiness is the name of the two party game The Guardian p 32 Retrieved 20 July 2022 Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers pp 195 199 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Postlewaite Jeff 27 March 1990 Anxious Glenda waits for a cue Evening Standard p 14 Retrieved 20 July 2022 And now for the part of a lifetime The Independent 31 March 1990 p 12 Retrieved 21 July 2022 Late Show with Stephen Colbert 15 May 2018 Glenda Jackson Moved From Acting to Politics YouTube Archived from the original on 11 December 2021 Retrieved 15 May 2018 Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers p 205 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers p 195 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers p 212 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Hampstead And Highgate UK General Election 1992 electionhub co uk Retrieved 6 July 2022 Ward Victoria 20 October 2019 Oliver Letwin The cleverest stupid person in Westminster The Telegraph ISSN 0307 1235 Retrieved 6 July 2022 Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers p 224 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Rentoul John 1 August 1996 Blair reshuffle rewards loyal mainstreamers The Independent Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers pp 236 240 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Ms Glenda Jackson CBE MP Authorised Biography Archived 15 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine Debrett s a b Hampstead And Highgate UK General Election 1997 electionhub co uk Retrieved 6 July 2022 LONDON MAYORALTY CANDIDATE SELECTION 2000 2016 University of Essex Archived from the original on 4 August 2016 Retrieved 21 July 2022 Hampstead And Highgate UK General Election 2001 electionhub co uk Retrieved 6 July 2022 Former minister calls for Blair s resignation The Irish Times 19 July 2003 Retrieved 7 July 2022 a b c d Glenda Jackson I m an antisocial socialist the Guardian 26 July 2020 Retrieved 7 July 2022 Glenda Jackson Oscar Winning Actress Turned Labour Politician Politics co uk Retrieved 7 July 2022 Breakfast with Frost BBC News 20 July 2003 Retrieved 7 July 2022 Election 2005 Results Hampstead amp Highgate BBC News Retrieved 6 July 2022 Labour MPs who rebelled on Iraq BBC News 31 October 2006 Retrieved 31 October 2006 England s tightest seat may not be so close this time The Jewish Chronicle 5 March 2015 Retrieved 6 July 2022 The UK s most marginal seat BBC News Retrieved 6 July 2022 Election 2010 Constituency Hampstead amp Kilburn BBC News Retrieved 6 July 2022 Graham Georgia 23 June 2011 Glenda Jackson won t stand in next election Ham amp High Glenda Jackson criticises Margaret Thatcher in Commons debate video The Guardian London 11 April 2013 Magnay Jacquelin 12 April 2013 Labour MP Glenda Jackson shatters the love during parliament tributes The Australian London Retrieved 18 April 2020 House of Commons Hansard Debates for 10 Apr 2013 pt 0001 publications parliament uk People Are Going Absolutely Crazy For This Clip Of An MP Attacking Iain Duncan Smith BuzzFeed 4 July 2014 Retrieved 14 November 2015 Chakelian Anoosh 1 July 2014 He s floating so high on his self appointed sanctity watch Glenda Jackson lay in to Iain Duncan Smith New Statesman Retrieved 18 April 2020 Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers pp 166 193 194 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Voting Record Glenda Jackson MP Hampstead and Kilburn 10308 The Public Whip Retrieved 7 July 2022 Schilling Mary Kaye 29 March 2018 Three Tall Women star Glenda Jackson was slaying female stereotypes long before Time s Up and MeToo Newsweek Retrieved 9 July 2022 Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers p 237 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Republic Our Supporters 4 March 2013 Archived from the original on 4 March 2013 Retrieved 4 October 2015 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint unfit URL link a b c Glenda Jackson on her scary reputation I ve never understood the fear thing the Guardian 14 December 2016 Retrieved 7 July 2022 Graham Jane 27 June 2022 Glenda Jackson What made me give up acting and go into politics was Margaret Thatcher The Big Issue Retrieved 7 July 2022 GLENDA JACKSON Brown is the right man to lead us through crisis Hampstead Highgate Express 6 November 2008 Retrieved 7 July 2022 Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Kilburn to help close friend Glenda Jackson Camden New Journal Retrieved 7 July 2022 Glenda Jackson Britain is in danger of being governed by pensioners like me New Statesman 14 August 2014 Retrieved 7 July 2022 Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers pp 238 239 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 a b Glenda Jackson I m a big admirer of Theresa May the Guardian 2 March 2019 Retrieved 7 July 2022 Glenda Jackson interview My family s anxious every time I sneeze The Independent 5 August 2020 Retrieved 10 July 2022 Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers pp 34 35 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Woodward Ian 1985 Glenda Jackson a study in fire and ice London Weidenfeld and Nicolson pp 27 28 ISBN 0 297 78533 8 OCLC 11658097 Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers pp 36 37 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Stott Catherine 28 November 2017 An interview with Glenda Jackson archive 28 November 1969 the Guardian Retrieved 7 July 2022 Ian Hall 28 February 2003 Profile Dan Hodges Freedom To Fly PR Week prweek com Retrieved 4 November 2011 Hasan Mehdi 20 October 2011 Mehdi Hasan Dan Hodges The Truth And me New Statesman Retrieved 18 April 2020 a b Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers pp 131 141 144 146 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Milestones Time Time com 9 February 1976 Archived from the original on 17 April 2010 Retrieved 4 November 2011 Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers p 170 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Glenda Jackson answers your questions I think that s a gross insult about politicians and actors frankly the Guardian 16 June 2022 Retrieved 7 July 2022 Bryant Christopher 1999 Glenda Jackson the biography Hammersmith London HarperCollinsPublishers p 94 ISBN 0 00 255911 0 OCLC 42790640 Honorary Fellows Index Ljmu ac uk Retrieved 2 November 2021 Actress Glenda Jackson Pictured Liverpool University Jackson Editorial Stock Photo Stock Image Shutterstock Shutterstock com Retrieved 2 November 2021 Honorary Degree Recipients Office of the President About Us Scranton edu Retrieved 2 November 2021 HONORARY DEGREES AWARDED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF KEELE PDF Keele ac uk Retrieved 2 November 2021 Previous honorary graduates Honorary graduates University of Exeter Exeter ac uk Retrieved 2 November 2021 University Calendar Honorary Degrees Durham University Dur ac uk Retrieved 2 November 2021 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Glenda Jackson Glenda Jackson at IMDb Glenda Jackson at the Internet Broadway Database Glenda Jackson at the BFI s Screenonline Glenda Jackson in conversation BFI Q amp A Camden Labour Party Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom Contributions in Parliament at Hansard Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 1803 2005 Voting record at Public Whip Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou Parliament of the United KingdomPreceded byGeoffrey Finsberg Member 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