2023-06-15 20:55:00
English actress and politician Glenda Jackson died this morning in Blackheath in the London suburbs. She was 87 years old. Her career path is most atypical in that she had traded the world of cinema, television and theatre, in which she had enjoyed numerous successes in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, for a long-term commitment breath as a Member of the British Parliament for twenty-three years. Without forgetting a late return to grace on the front of the stage especially on the small screen and in the theater. Throughout her illustrious acting career, she had collaborated with such renowned directors as Ken Russell, John Schlesinger, Joseph Losey, Richard Fleischer and Robert Altman, among others.
Of modest social origin, Glenda Jackson had trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in the mid-1960s. At the same time, she had held her first secondary roles in the cinema, notably in The price of a man by Lindsay Anderson. His meeting with the director Peter Brook allows him to excel first in the theater, then in the cinema in Marat / Sade. After negatives by Peter Medak in 1968, she landed her first major film role the following year thanks to the adaptation of DH Lawrence Love by Ken Russell. She will cross paths with the director once more for her next two films: Music Lovers et The Boy Friend. Meanwhile, Glenda Jackson had also established herself on British television through the BBC mini-series “Elizabeth R”.
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In the cinema, the ’70s were placed for the actress now confirmed under the sign of fruitful collaborations with filmmakers such as John Schlesinger (A Sunday like any other), Charles Jarrott (Mary Stuart Queen of Scots), Michael Apted (Triple echo), Melvin Frank (A mistress in her arms A woman on her back et Love on crutches), Damiano Damiani (The temptation), Joseph Losey (A romantic Englishwoman), Trevor Nunn (Hedda), Richard Fleischer (The Incredible Sarah), Michael Lindsay-Hogg (funny ways), Howard Zieff (call me doctor), Robert Enders (Stevie), Silvio Narizzano (The school is pissed off), Ronald Name (spy games) et Robert Altman (HealtH).
From the ’80s, Glenda Jackson was as present on the small as on the big screen. Among her films during her last decade full of acting work, we can mention The Return of the Soldier by Alan Bridges, Turtle Diary by John Irvin, Beyond Therapy the Robert Altman, Salome’s Last Dance et The Rainbow by Ken Russell. As well as for television “Acte d’amour” by Anthony Harvey and Anthony Page and “Sakharov” by Jack Gold.
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While she had always been in solidarity with the social struggles led by the Labor Party, Glenda Jackson had taken the step of really getting involved in the political world in 1992 by becoming the Member of Parliament for a constituency north of London. . She was re-elected there until 2015, when, at almost 80, she ended her political career. For two years, from 1997 to 1999, she was Secretary of State for Transport in Prime Minister Tony Blair’s cabinet. This had not prevented her from criticizing him severely because of his participation in the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Since it was the destruction of the British social model during the eleven years of Margaret Thatcher’s reign that had motivated the actress to change her hat, it is quite normal that she held one of her most passionate and memorable on the occasion of the tribute paid to the former Prime Minister following her death in April 2013.
Rather than enjoying a well-deserved retirement, Glenda Jackson had made a remarkable comeback as an actress during the last years of her life. In 2018, she won the Tony for Best Actress in a Theatrical Play in “Three Tall Women” by Edward Albee. The TV movie “Elizabeth is missing” by Aisling Walsh won her a BAFTA and an International Emmy in 2020. And in the cinema, we will still be able to see her soon in Between the lines by Eva Husson – French release scheduled for the end of September – and The Great Escaper by Oliver Parker, which she had just finished filming.
Glenda Jackson was nominated four times for the Oscar for Best Actress, for Love, A Sunday like any other, A mistress in her arms A woman on her back et Hedda. She had won it twice, respectively in 1971 and 1974 for Love et A mistress in her arms A woman on her back. Jackson had been absent from both of those ceremonies, although she had attended the big Hollywood night on other occasions as a presenter. She had won a BAFTA for cinema in 1972 for A Sunday like any other. As well as two Emmies the same year for her role as Queen Elizabeth I in the “Elizabeth R” miniseries. His roles in Love et Stevie won him New York Critics’ and National Board of Review awards.
Finally, for the record, Glenda Jackson was born on the same day as her colleague and compatriot Albert Finney (The crime of the Orient Express), who died in February 2019.
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