Glenda Jackson

Glenda May Jackson (born 9 May 1936) is an English actress and former Member of Parliament (MP). She is 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 Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1978.

She has won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice: for her role 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). 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 was one of the closest results of the election. Jackson stood down at the 2015 general election, and returned to acting. Provided by Wikipedia