Two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson died at the age of 87

Great British actress, two-time Oscar winner for Best Actress in 1971 and 1974 for Love and Mistress in Arms, Woman on His Back, Glenda Jackson died this Thursday, June 15 in London, at the age of 87. “Short illness”.

This was announced by his agent Lionel Larne. “Glenda Jackson, two-time Oscar-winning actress and politician, died peacefully at home this morning after a short illness with her family by her side. He recently finished shooting the film. the great fugitive in which he participates Michael Caine“.

Born May 9, 1936, the daughter of a bricklayer and a homemaker, Glenda Jackson first worked as a pharmacy clerk and took amateur drama classes. Far from a modest family background, he managed to study at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Double Oscar-winning actor

Noticed by the great director Peter Brooks, he hired her to play Ophelia in his 1963 adaptation of Hamlet. A passion for theater that will never leave him and for which he will receive no less than five citations Laurence Olivier Awards.

Film director Ken Russell’s muse entrusts him with the title role of his film love, an adaptation of the work of DH Lawrence. In this work about the war of the sexes and relationships among the elite of the British industrial Midlands in the 1920s, Glenda Jackson responds to Oliver Reed, another of the filmmaker’s favorite actors. Jackson will receive the Oscar for best actress for composition.

In 1971, she won the BAFTA for Best Actress thanks to John Schlesinger in the sentimental drama Un Dimanche comme les autres. Her role as a divorced mother of two in the comedy Mistress in his arms, woman on his backShe will receive her second Oscar for Best Actress.

Known for his intense dramatic compositions, he still won, to everyone’s surprise, the statue for his role in a light comedy, in front of actors who were much more favorites: Ellen Burstyn in “The Exorcist”, Marsha Mason in “Permission to Love”, Barbra. Streisand in Our Prime Years and Joan Woodward in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams. Jackson doesn’t come to Hollywood looking for a prize and is represented by his director, Melvin Frank.

political shift

After 35 years in theater and film, Glenda Jackson, Thatcher’s bitter opponent, enters politics. Thus, in 1992 he was elected as a member of the Labor Party and retained his constituency until 2015. He was part of Tony Blair’s government, albeit briefly, in which he received the Ministry of Transport portfolio. From 1997 to 1999.

After leaving the political scene in 2015, she returned to the boards and set, most notably playing a woman with dementia for the BBC in Elizabeth Is Missing, which won her a BAFTA. So his last role, at the age of 87, is the great fugitive.

Directed by Oliver Parker, the film tells the true story of British veteran Bernard Jordan (played by Michael Caine), who escaped from a nursing home in June 2014 so he could join his comrades in battle to celebrate his 70th birthday. Anniversary of the landing of the Allied forces in Normandy.

Although he worked with famous filmmakers and directors throughout his long career, Jackson always feared that each of his roles would be his last. “I never got to the point where I didn’t worry about not being an actor anymore” He said in the columns of a British newspaper A big issue. “It’s a very crowded job, and especially crowded if you’re a woman. Writers don’t find women that interesting.”