{"id":1948218,"date":"2023-06-15T14:48:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T18:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-time-oscar-winner-and-longtime-lawmaker-glenda-jackson-dies-at-87\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T14:48:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T18:48:06","slug":"two-time-oscar-winner-and-longtime-lawmaker-glenda-jackson-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-time-oscar-winner-and-longtime-lawmaker-glenda-jackson-dies-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-time Oscar Winner and Longtime Lawmaker Glenda Jackson Dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwo-time-oscar-winner-and-longtime-lawmaker-glenda-jackson-dies-at-87%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1948218&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Glenda Jackson, a two-time Academy Award-winning performer who had a second career in politics as a British lawmaker before an acclaimed late-life return to stage and screen, has died at age 87.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson\u2019s agent Lionel Larner said she died Thursday at her home in London after a short illness.<\/p>\n<p>He said she had recently completed filming \u201c\u2018The Great Escaper,\u201d in which she co-starred with 90-year-old Michael Caine.<\/p>\n<p>Born into a working-class family in Birkenhead, northwest England, in 1936, Jackson trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.<\/p>\n<p>She performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company \u2014 where she starred in the cutting-edge drama \u201cMarat\/Sade\u201d directed by Peter Brook \u2014 and became one of the biggest British stars of the 1960s and \u201970s, winning Oscars for \u201cWomen in Love\u201d in 1971 and \u201cA Touch of Class\u201d in 1974.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We\u2019re saddened to hear of Glenda Jackson\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n<p>She was a tour de force in acting &#038; politics, dedicating her life to both. We\u2019re proud her extraordinary talent was seen on RSC stages early in her career in ground-breaking productions.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts are with Glenda\u2019s family. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CSgASCT7YM\">pic.twitter.com\/CSgASCT7YM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The RSC (@TheRSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRSC\/status\/1669348594636443652?\">June 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On television, she took home two Emmy Awards in 1972 for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in \u201cElizabeth R.\u201d and secured a place in British pop-culture history by playing Cleopatra in a classic sketch on \u201cThe Morecambe &#038; Wise Show\u201d in 1971.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll men are fools,\u201d she proclaimed in what became a famous one-liner, \u201cand what makes them so is seeing beauty like what I have got.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Glenda Jackson CBE (1936 \u2013 2023) R.I.P <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mMzo3TPFVd\">pic.twitter.com\/mMzo3TPFVd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014  Classic British TV  (@Classicbritcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Classicbritcom\/status\/1669295196939464704?\">June 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In her 50s, Jackson went into politics, winning election to Parliament in 1992. She spent 23 years as a lawmaker under the liberal Labour Party, serving as a minister for transport in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/insane-scenario-trump-actually-become-prime-minister-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prime Minister<\/a> Tony Blair\u2019s first government in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>She came to be at odds with Blair over the 2003 invasion of Iraq, saying his decision to enter the U.S.-led war without United Nations\u2019 authorization left her \u201cdeeply, deeply ashamed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victims will be as they always are, women, children, the elderly,\u201d Jackson told The Associated Press before the invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Her blunt manner and outspokenness continued throughout her political career and might have helped keep her from high government office.<\/p>\n<p>After former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died in 2013, Jackson railed against her in Parliament, decrying what she claimed was the \u201cheinous social, economic and spiritual damage wreaked upon this country\u201d by the\u00a0trailblazing leader.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson returned to acting after leaving Parliament in 2015 and had some of her most acclaimed roles, including the title character in Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cKing Lear.\u201d It opened at London\u2019s Old Vic in 2016 and later played on Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>She had her first film role in a quarter-century in the 2019 movie \u201cElizabeth is Missing.\u201d Jackson won a BAFTA award, Britain\u2019s equivalent of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/woke-oscars-suffer-another-year-brutal-ratings-third-lowest-ever-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar<\/a>, for her performance as a woman with Alzheimer\u2019s trying to solve a mystery.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Oscar-winning actress and former MP Glenda Jackson has died aged 87.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, she told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnWilson14?\">@JohnWilson14<\/a> that while she was pleased to win two Oscars, she focused on acting over attending award ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>Watch This Cultural Life on BBC iPlayer: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gs2CedVhOA\">https:\/\/t.co\/Gs2CedVhOA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YBR5EDMisO\">pic.twitter.com\/YBR5EDMisO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC Arts (@bbcarts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcarts\/status\/1669299806269853696?\">June 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said Jackson \u201cleaves a space in our cultural and political life that can never be filled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe played many roles with great distinction, passion and commitment,\u201d he said. \u201cFrom award-winning actor to campaigner and activist to Labour MP and government minister, Glenda Jackson was always fighting for human rights and social justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tulip Siddiq, Jackson\u2019s successor as Labour lawmaker for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/londons-famous-trafalgar-square-evacuated-due-suspicious-situation-police-execute-controlled-explosion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a> seat of Hampstead and Kilburn, said she was \u201cdevastated to hear that my predecessor Glenda Jackson has died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA formidable politician, an amazing actress and a very supportive mentor to me. Hampstead and Kilburn will miss you Glenda,\u201d Siddiq wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson is survived by her son, Dan Hodges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The Western Journal has reviewed this Associated Press story and may have altered it prior to publication to ensure that it meets our editorial standards.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/two-time-oscar-winner-longtime-lawmaker-glenda-jackson-dies-87\/\">Two-time Oscar Winner and Longtime Lawmaker Glenda Jackson Dies at 87<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenda Jackson, a two-time Academy Award-winning performer who had a second career in politics as a British lawmaker before an acclaimed late-life return to stage and screen, has died at age 87. Jackson\u2019s agent Lionel Larner said she died Thursday at her home in London after a short illness. 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