"Oscar-winning actress and former MP Glenda Jackson has died at the age of 87, her agent has said.
Jackson became an international star in the 1970s, winning Oscars for Women In Love and A Touch of Class, and receiving two further nominations.
She also starred as Queen Elizabeth I in the BBC drama Elizabeth R.
Politics was always important, and she gave up acting to join the House of Commons as a Labour MP in north London from 1992 to 2015.
She later returned to the screen, winning a Bafta for her comeback role in the TV drama Elizabeth Is Missing in 2020.
In a statement, her agent Lionel Larner said: "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.
“She recently completed filming The Great Escaper in which she co-starred with Michael Caine.”"
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me being a Londoner, I think I only saw her once in person. Ca 1970. the Film "Women in Love" was on at cinema off Leicester Square, Prince Charles Cinema.
There was a short documentary film being made and she was tasked with walking outside and around the cinema as well as walking in maybe once or twice to the foyer of the cinema. That "documentary" proved how free she was to walk around and not be recognised, or intruded upon who she was, i.e. successful actress at the time.
Incidently "Women in Love" at the time, had the shock action of two men dualing in the nude Alan Bates and Oliver Reed. fun how times have changed.
It also had some other amazing actors and actresses in, not often referred to. Makes me think about time I watched it again. Memories of ladies singing "it it is forever raining bubbles"
I recall the dueling scene, it was very "different".
Tom