Actress Glenda Jackson has died due to an illness at 87.
Her agent, Lionel Larner, announced her death, “Glenda Jackson, two-time Academy Award-winning actress and politician, 87, died peacefully at her home in London this morning after a short illness with her family by her side.”
He added, “Today we lost one of the world’s greatest actresses and I have lost a best friend of over 50 years.”
Jackson was an actress who won two Oscars for her performances. She later became a politician.
She was born in 1936 in Birkenhead, England. She started acting when she was a teen and was involved in theater groups for amateurs. Shortly after, she won a scholarship to attend the acting school the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Once she graduated from college, she immediately began booking jobs. She acted in many shows and got her first Broadway gig in 1965 where she was a part of the cast Marat/Sade.
Her agent, Lionel Larner, announced her death, “Glenda Jackson, two-time Academy Award-winning actress and politician, 87, died peacefully at her home in London this morning after a short illness with her family by her side.”
He added, “Today we lost one of the world’s greatest actresses and I have lost a best friend of over 50 years.”
Jackson was an actress who won two Oscars for her performances. She later became a politician.
She was born in 1936 in Birkenhead, England. She started acting when she was a teen and was involved in theater groups for amateurs. Shortly after, she won a scholarship to attend the acting school the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Once she graduated from college, she immediately began booking jobs. She acted in many shows and got her first Broadway gig in 1965 where she was a part of the cast Marat/Sade.
- 6/15/2023
- by Nina Hauswirth
- Uinterview
Glenda Jackson, a two-time Academy Award-winning performer who had a second career in politics as a British lawmaker before an acclaimed late-life return to stage and screen, has died at age 87.
Jackson’s agent Lionel Larner said she died Thursday at her home in London after a short illness. He said she had recently completed filming “’The Great Escaper”, in which she co-starred with 90-year-old Michael Caine.
Caine said Jackson was “one of our greatest movie actresses. I shall miss her.”
Born into a working-class family in Birkhenhead, northwest England, in 1936 Jackson trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company — where she starred in the cutting-edge drama “Marat/Sade” directed by Peter Brook — and became one of the biggest British stars of the 1960s and 70s, winning two Academy Awards, for the brooding D.H. Lawrence adaptation “Women in Love” in 1971 and the...
Jackson’s agent Lionel Larner said she died Thursday at her home in London after a short illness. He said she had recently completed filming “’The Great Escaper”, in which she co-starred with 90-year-old Michael Caine.
Caine said Jackson was “one of our greatest movie actresses. I shall miss her.”
Born into a working-class family in Birkhenhead, northwest England, in 1936 Jackson trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company — where she starred in the cutting-edge drama “Marat/Sade” directed by Peter Brook — and became one of the biggest British stars of the 1960s and 70s, winning two Academy Awards, for the brooding D.H. Lawrence adaptation “Women in Love” in 1971 and the...
- 6/15/2023
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
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