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☆ Glenda Jackson, British actor turned politician, dies aged 87
  + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Elizabeth Piper | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
Raw-boned, pallid and angular, with striking, sharp eyes, she had starred on stage, television and film before quitting to take up politics, declaring: "“An actor's life is not interesting". Jackson also won two Emmy awards for her portrayal of England's Queen Elizabeth I in the BBC's 1971 television series "Elizabeth R". After more than three decades on stage and film, Jackson quit acting and took her no-nonsense, straight-talking style into politics. In 1992, at the age of 55, Jackson won a seat in parliament representing the left-of-centre Labour Party in a constituency in north London. In parliament, Jackson was vociferous in her condemnation of the Conservative Party which she accused of instilling a “"dreadful, dreadful moral malaise" in Britain.
☆ Glenda Jackson, Oscar-Winning Actress Turned Politician, Dies at 87
  + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Benedict Nightingale | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
But she did not flourish there and left at 16. (Ms. Jackson remained convinced that she was plain, even ugly — a belief later reinforced by the academy’s principal, who told her that she could become only a character actress and “shouldn’t expect to work much before you’re 40.”)The schooling prepared her for what became six years in provincial repertory. In 1958 she married Roy Hodges, a fellow actor. Regional stage work meant periods of unemployment, odd jobs and poverty for the couple, and Ms. Jackson later admitted that she had shoplifted food and other essentials that she could conceal under her coat. Her big break came in 1964, when the director Mr. Brook brought her into an experimental group he was assembling for the recently formed Royal Shakespeare Company.
Persons: Glenda, Albert Finney, Peter O’Toole, Jackson, “, Roy Hodges, Brook, “ Marat, Sade, Tony, Jackson’s Charlotte Corday Organizations: Navy, West, West Kirby County Grammar School for Girls, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Royal Shakespeare Company, Broadway Locations: West Kirby, London
☆ Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway
  + stars: | 2018-02-20 | by ( Ben Brantley | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
(Her father was a bricklayer; her mother cleaned houses and worked in shops.) When she began to audition professionally, she was told she could expect only character parts. (Their son, Dan, would grow up to become a political columnist; Ms. Jackson now lives in the basement flat of the house he shares with his wife and son.) In 1963, she was invited to audition for a Royal Shakespeare Company season devoted to the Theater of Cruelty. It was just calling on so many things that I hadn’t realized were possible in acting.”
Persons: “, ”, Glenda Jackson, Roy Hodges, Dan, Jackson, Peter Brook, Brook, Christine Keeler, Jackie Kennedy Organizations: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Royal Shakespeare Company, Theater, Cruelty Locations: Cheshire, Northern England, London
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