Glenda Jackson

Biography: Glenda Jackson

On stage, screen, and television, powerhouse actress Glenda Jackson displayed a fierce intelligence and a brazen toughness that have bordered on abrasiveness. With her sharp facial features, Jackson is more handsome than glamorous, but this has only helped her career in that it provided her the opportunity to play a wide variety of strong-willed, smart, and sexy women. She specialized in dramas but also dabbled in comedies. The daughter of a Liverpool bricklayer, Jackson left school at age 16 to join an amateur acting troupe, taking odd jobs to support herself. After ten years of scraping by, she was invited to join the Theatre of Cruelty, an offshoot of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and cast as Charlotte Corday in Peter Brook's internationally award-winning The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis De Sade (aka Marat/Sade). In 1966, Jackson reprised her role in the film version, her first starring role; three years before, she had debuted with a bit part in This Sporting Life. Jackson worked closely with director Ken Russell, first appearing in his adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love (1969) as Gudrun. The role earned Jackson the first of two Academy Awards. In 1971, she was nominated for another Oscar for Sunday, Bloody Sunday, and earned her second award for the omantic comedy A Touch of Class (1973). In 1971, Jackson also won an Emmy for playing Queen Elizabeth on the highly acclaimed British miniseries Elizabeth R. Other notable television appearances include the title role in the moving account of Patricia Neal's recovery from a stroke The Patricia Neal Story (1981). Throughout much of her adult life, Jackson has been passionate about politics. In 1990, she unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the British Parliament. She tried again in 1992 and succeed in winning the Hampstead seat. Since the election, Jackson has retired from acting to devote her energies to her party and her constituents. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide less

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The Strange Interlude (1990)
Cast: Rosemary Harris Glenda Jackson Herbert Wise David Dukes Kenneth Branagh
Tags: Drama Theater Romance
Length: 190min
Previously filmed (and truncated) in 1932, Eugene O'Neill's marathon 1928 Pulitzer-winning stage drama Strange Interlude was adapted for television in 1988. Broadcast in three 90-minute installments, the nine-act play covers some 25 years in the life...
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Salome's Last Dance (1988)
Cast: Ken Russell Glenda Jackson David F. Doyle Stratford Johns Nickolas Grace
Tags: Period Film Showbiz Comedy Satire Comedy
Length: 113min
Ken Russell's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's +Salome, Salome's Last Dance takes the form of a play within a film. Wilde (Nickolas Grace) arrives at a brothel with his lover, Bosey (aka Lord Alfred Douglas played by Douglas Hodge), where the proprietor,...
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Business As Usual (1987)
Cast: Glenda Jackson Yoram Globus Menahem Golan John Thaw Lezli-Ann Barrett
Tags: Message Movie Drama
Length: 89min
The British Business as Usual stars Glenda Jackson and John Thaw as the husband-and-wife managers of a boutique. When a huge store chain purchases Jackson and Thaw's establishment, chain executive Eamon Boland is sent to check out the place. It seems,...
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Beyond Therapy (1986)
Cast: Robert Altman Glenda Jackson Jeff Goldblum Christopher Guest Ira Gershwin
Tags: Satire Comedy Urban Comedy
Length: 93min
Based on the play by Christopher Durang, Robert Altman's Beyond Therapy is a comedy set in New York City but filmed in Paris, where Altman was living at the time. Arrogant Bruce (Jeff Goldblum) grows bored with his live-in lover, Bob (Christopher...
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Turtle Diary (1985)
Cast: Ben Kingsley Glenda Jackson Michael Gambon John Irvin Harold Pinter
Tags: Romantic Comedy Romance Comedy Drama
Length: 90min
Adapted by Harold Pinter from the novel by Russell Hoban, Turtle Diary stars Glenda Jackson as a famed author/illustrator of children's books. In the midst of her success, Jackson suffers from writer's block. While casting about for new ideas, she...
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The Return of the Soldier (1982)
Cast: Julie Christie Ann-Margret Alan Bates Glenda Jackson Ian Holm
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 102min
The returning soldier is amnesia victim Alan Bates, who remembers nothing of his life before suffering shell-shock--not even his long-term marriage to snooty Julie Christie. Spinsterish Ann-Margret, who has long harbored a fondness for Bates, hopes to...
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The Patricia Neal Story (1981)
Cast: Glenda Jackson Anthony Page Dirk Bogarde Mildred Dunnock Anthony Harvey
Tags: Docudrama Biopic Drama
Length: 100min
This true-life TV movie stars Glenda Jackson as Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal and Anthony Page as her author husband Roald Dahl. In 1964, Neal is felled by a stroke, which endangers not only her life but the life of her unborn child. Both...
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Sakharov (1984)
Cast: Jason Robards, Jr. Glenda Jackson Jack Gold Frank Finlay Nicol Williamson
Tags: Biopic Drama
Length: 120min
The made-for-TV Sakharov stars Jason Robards as famed Soviet nuclear physicist D. Andrei Sakharov. Lauded by his government for his scientific achievements, Sakharov nonetheless becomes an outspoken critic of Russia's human rights violations. He is...
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Giro City (1982)
Cast: Glenda Jackson Kenneth Colley Jon Finch Karl Francis Emrys James
Tags: Melodrama Drama
Length: 102min
Comparatively unknown, the British And Nothing But the Truth is a blistering indictment of government-sanctioned corruption, as well as the "facts of life" of the television industry. Filmmaker Glenda Jackson and reporter Jon Finch head to South...
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Hopscotch (1980)
Cast: Walter Matthau Sam Waterston Ned Beatty Glenda Jackson Herbert Lom
Tags: Spy Film Chase Movie Comedy Thriller Action Comedy Spy Comedy
Length: 107min
Walter Matthau plays a CIA agent who's been confined by office politics to a desk job. The disgruntled Matthau quits the service and heads to Europe, where he links up with former lover (an fellow ex-agent) Glenda Jackson. All goes smoothly until...
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