Glenda Jackson, who segued from a successful actress — Oscars for “Women in Love” and “A Touch of Class” and two Emmys for “Elizabeth R” — into a 23-year career …
” and “A Touch of Class” and two Emmys for “Elizabeth R” — into a 23-year career as member of the U.K.’s House of Commons, has died. She was 87. Glenda Jackson, two-time Academy Award-winning actress and politician, died peacefully at her home in Blackheath, London this morning after a brief illness with her family at her side.
Onstage, she triumphed as other complex women in “Hedda Gabler,” “Strange Interlude” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” Her break came in 1964 when she became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. In her four years there, she worked with influential director Peter Brook, including on Peter Weiss’ “Marat/Sade” in 1965. The production also played on Broadway and in Paris. Also in 1965, she played Ophelia opposite David Warner’s Hamlet in the Peter Hall production. In 1966 the RSC staged “US,” a protest against the Vietnam War that was adapted into the film “Tell Me Lies.
She reunited with director Russell for the 1970 “The Music Lovers,” playing the nymphomaniac wife of the tortured homosexual Tchaikovsky . The film was much more overheated and bombastic than their earlier collaboration, and received mixed reviews. Jackson bowed out of Russell’s “The Devils,” but she played an amusing cameo in Russell’s version of the stage musical “The Boyfriend,” which starred Twiggy.
In 1984, she appeared in a London revival of Eugene O’Neill’s rarely performed “Strange Interlude,” with the production going to Broadway the following year. A TV version was broadcast in Britain, and then in America in January 1988, as part of PBS’ “American Playhouse.” That same year, she ran on a Labour Party ticket, representing Hampstead and Highgate, and won, remaining an MP for more than 20 years. In 2010, constituency boundaries were changed and Jackson ran for the post for the redefined Hampstead and Kilburn area. She won by a narrow margin, and in 2011 announced that she would not run for office again, finishing her political duties in March 2015.
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