Cast & creator
Glenda Jackson
Best known for The Mike Douglas Show, Golden Globe Awards, The Dick Cavett Show
Glenda May Jackson CBE (9 May 1936, Birkenhead, Cheshire – 15 June 2023) was an English actress and politician. She was one of the few artists to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, having won two Academy Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. She was made a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1978. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice: for her roles in Women in Love (1970) and A Touch of Class (1973). She won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971). Her other notable roles include Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), Hedda (1975), The Incredible Sarah (1976) and Hopscotch (1980). She won two Primetime Emmy Awards for her role as Elizabeth I in the BBC series Elizabeth R (1971). She received the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for her role in Elizabeth Is Missing (2019). Jackson studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). She made her Broadway debut in Marat/Sade (1966). She received five Laurence Olivier Award nominations for her West End roles in Stevie (1977), Antony and Cleopatra (1979), Rose (1980), Strange Interlude (1984) and King Lear (2016), the later being her first role after a 25 year absence from acting, which she reprised on Broadway in 2019. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in the revival of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women (2018). 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, confirmed after a recount, was the narrowest of that parliament. Jackson stood down at the 2015 general election and returned to acting.
Also known as: Glenda May Jackson
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film credits
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television credits
93
1944–2025 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (93)
Showing 93 of 93 credits
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
American Playhouse
Nina Leeds
1982
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956Tony Awards
Self - Winner
1956
Have I Got News for You
Self
1990
The Wednesday Play
Cathy
1964The Wednesday Play
Julie
1964
Wogan
Self
1982
Question Time
Self - Panellist
1979
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
BBC Play of the Month
Margaret Schlegel
1965
Omnibus
Self
1967
Dinah!
Self
1974
Midi trente
Self
1972Film '72
Self
1971
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Marina Palek
1969
World in Action
1963
The Muppet Show
Self - Special Guest Star
1976
So Graham Norton
Self - Guest
1998
Morecambe & Wise
Self
1961
Remembers…
Self
2022
Six Fifty-Five Special
Self
1981
Mothering Sunday
Jane (Older)
2021
National Geographic Specials
Narrator
1965
Half Hour Story
Claire Foley
1967Terry Wogan's Friday Night
Self
1992
Elizabeth R
Queen Elizabeth I
1971
Armchair Theatre
1956
The Great Escaper
Irene Jordan
2023
Women in Love
Gudrun Brangwen
1969
Mary, Queen of Scots
Queen Elizabeth
1971
Strange Interlude
Nina Leeds
1988
Morecambe & Wise in America
Self
2018
Hopscotch
Isobel
1980
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
Charlotte Corday
1967
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Alex Greville
1971
The Boy Friend
Rita Monroe
1971
The Music Lovers
Antonina 'Nina' Milyukova
1971
Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story
A Touch of Class
Vicki Allessio
1973
The Return of the Soldier
Margaret Grey
1983
Mothers of the Revolution
Narrator (voice)
2021
A Murder of Quality
Alisa Brimley
1991
King of the Wind
Queen Caroline
1990
Salome's Last Dance
Herodias / Lady Alice
1988
The Patricia Neal Story
Patricia Neal
1981
Negatives
Vivien
1968
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Conor MacMichael
1978
Bequest to the Nation
Lady Hamilton
1973
HealtH
Isabella Garnell
1980
Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me
Self
2017
Elizabeth Is Missing
Maud Palmer Horsham
2019
This Sporting Life
Singer at Party (uncredited)
1963
Beyond Therapy
Charlotte
1987
House Calls
Ann Atkinson
1978
The Rainbow
Anna Brangwen
1989
Let Poland Be Poland
Self - Co-Host
1982
Turtle Diary
Neaera Duncan
1985
The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty
Glitch the Witch (voice)
1990
Hedda
Hedda
1975
Trust Morecambe & Wise
Self
2019
The Romantic Englishwoman
Elizabeth
1975
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2011
The Triple Echo
Alice Charlesworth
1972
Nasty Habits
Sister Alexandra
1977
Lost and Found
Tricia
1979
The Tempter
Sister Geraldine
1974
Tell Me Lies
Glenda
1968
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
Self
2012
The House of Bernarda Alba
Bernarda
1991
Business as Usual
Babs Flynn
1987
The Benefit of the Doubt
Self
1967
Sakharov
Yelena Bonner
1984
Brook by Brook
Self
2002
The Best of Morecambe and Wise
Self (archive footage)
2001
The Incredible Sarah
Sarah Bernhardt
1976
The Maids
Solange
1975
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
Archive
2025
Horror of Darkness
Cathy
1965
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
Harriet Cohen
1992
The Extra Day
Extra (uncredited)
1956Blouse and Skirt
Self
2000
Giro City
Sophie
1982Let's Murder Vivaldi
Julie
1968
Blood Donors
Self
1981
Stevie
Stevie Smith
1978Which of These Two Ladies Is He Married To?
Claire Foley
1967
Opus
Charlotte Corday (Marat/Sade)
1967
A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai
Alexandra Kollontai (voice)
1994
The Pacemakers: Glenda Jackson
Self
1971
Doombeach
Miss Ricketts
1989