Glenda Jackson, Academy Award and Emmy Winner, Dead at 87
Glenda Jackson, the two-time Oscar- and Emmy Award-winning actress who later made the transition to politics, has died. She was 87 years old.
In a statement, Jackson’s agent Lionel Lerner told our sister site Deadline that she “died peacefully at her home in Blackheath, London… after a brief illness with her family at her side.” A specific cause of death was not disclosed.
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Jackson’s career spanned seven decades, during which she won a pair of Academy Awards (for 1970’s Women in Love and 1973’s A Touch of Class), two Emmys (for her role as Elizabeth I in the 1971 BBC miniseries Elizabeth R) and a Tony (for the 2018 revival of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women). Across the pond, she took home the BAFTA for Best Actress in a Leading Role for 1971’s Sunday Bloody Sunday, and the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for the 2019 TV-movie Elizabeth Is Missing — a role that also earned her the honor of TVLine’s Performer of the Week upon its Stateside debut in January 2021.
Jackson hit pause on her acting career in 1992 and took up a second career in British politics. She was elected as the Labour Party MP for Hampstead and Highgate in the 1992 general election, and served as a Junior Transport Minister from 1997 to 1999, under Prime Minister Tony Blair. She retired from politics in 2015 and returned to acting, appearing in the above-mentioned Elizabeth Is Missing and the 2021 movie Mothering Sunday.
Prior to her death, she completed production on the forthcoming film The Great Escaper, opposite Michael Caine. A release date has not yet been announced.
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