Glenda Jackson

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Glenda May Jackson CBE (born May 9, 1936 in Birkenhead , Merseyside ) is a British actress and politician . For her appearances in the films Liebende Frauen (1970) and Man, You're Great! (1973) each won the Oscar for Best Actress . In addition, she has also received the Golden Globe Award , the Emmy Award and the Tony Award in the course of her career . From 1992 to 2015 she was a member of the Labor PartyBritish House of Commons .

Life

Glenda Jackson dropped out of school early to become an actress. After several attempts and after taking on a wide variety of odd jobs, she was discovered in 1964 by the British legendary director Peter Brook and from then on played in the Royal Shakespeare Company . Brook cast her in Peter Weiss ' play Marat / Sade as Charlotte Corday , which she then played in the 1967 film. She then played numerous film roles and became one of the leading British actresses of the 1970s. She won the Oscar for best actress twice . In 1978 she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II .

In the early 1990s she slowly let her acting career fade away and concentrated primarily on her political ambitions. In 1992 she moved into the British House of Commons for the Labor Party . She defended the mandate in the general election of 1997 , 2001 , 2005 and 2010 . In 2011, she announced that she did not want to run for the next election in 2015 for reasons of age.

Then Jackson resumed her acting career, which she justified with her withdrawal from politics. In 2016 she appeared in the theater for the first time in a long time, when Shakespeare's old King Lear at the Old Vic Theater in London received critical acclaim. She received the Tony Award for Best Actress in 2018 for her appearance on Broadway as a widow in the revival of Edward Albee's play Three Tall Women . In 2019 she was back in front of the camera for the first time after a break of 27 years: In the British television film Elizabeth Is Missing by Aisling Walsh , she played the lead role of a demented woman who is looking for her missing friend.

Glenda Jackson was married to political advisor Roy Hodges from 1958 until her divorce in 1976. Their son is the journalist Dan Hodges (* 1969), who has already written for several major British newspapers. In 1978 she was appointed Commander of the British Empire .

Filmography

Awards

  • 1971: Oscar for the lead role in Loving Women
  • 1971: Golden Globe nomination for Women in Love
  • 1972: Oscar nomination for her lead role in Sunday Bloody Sunday
  • 1972: Golden Globe nomination for the portrayal of Elizabeth I in Mary, Queen of Scots
  • 1974: Oscar for her leading role in Man, You're Great!
  • 1974: Golden Globe for the leading role in A Touch of Class
  • 1976: Oscar nomination for the title role in Hedda Gabler
  • 1976: Golden Globe nomination for Hedda Gabler
  • 1977: Golden Globe nomination for The Incredible Sarah
  • 1979: Golden Globe nomination for Stevie
  • 1982: Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of Patricia Neal in the television film The Patricia Neal Story
  • 1985: Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of Jelena Bonner in the television film Sakharov

In addition, she won two Emmy Awards .

Web links

Commons : Glenda Jackson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ by Georgia Graham: Glenda Jackson won't stand in the next election. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Michael Billington: King Lear review - Glenda Jackson makes a shattering return to the stage . In: The Guardian . November 4, 2016, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed November 6, 2016]).
  3. ↑ Duncan Geddes: Glenda Jackson wins Tony award after 53 ‑ year wait . In: The Times . June 11, 2018, ISSN  0140-0460 ( thetimes.co.uk [accessed December 23, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Jackson, Glenda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jackson, Glenda May (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress and politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Birkenhead