English actress Glenda Jackson (1936 – 2023) achieved notability during her performing career, which began in 1952. She took a hiatus from acting from 1992 to 2015, after being elected as the Labour Party MP for Hampstead and Highgate. Following her departure from Parliament, she made a successful return to performing. Her acting work encompassed stage, radio, film and television. In addition, she also narrated and presented various campaign films. The list does not include works in which Jackson only appeared as an interviewee, rather than a performer, such as chat shows.
Jackson won the Triple Crown of Acting, the term used for actors who have won a competitive Academy Award, Emmy Award and Tony Award in the acting categories – the highest accolades recognised in American film, television, and theatre, respectively. She had also been nominated for, and received, numerous other awards.
Filmography
Film Year Title Role Notes 1963This Sporting LifeSinger at PartyUncredited1967Marat/SadeCharlotte Corday1968Tell Me Lies: A Film About LondonGuestCharacter names not creditedNegativesVivien1969Women in LoveGudrun BrangwenAcademy Award Winner for Best Actress in a Leading Role1971Nina (Antonina Milyukova)Sunday Bloody SundayAlex GrevilleRita MonroeUncreditedMary, Queen of ScotsQueen Elizabeth1972Alice1973Bequest to the NationLady HamiltonAKA The Nelson AffairVickie AllessioAcademy Award Winner for Best Actress in a Leading Role (second win)Sister GeraldineAKA Il Sorriso del grande tentatore1975SolangeElizabeth FieldingHeddaHedda1976Sarah BernhardtNasty HabitsAlexandra1978House CallsAnn AtkinsonStevieStevie SmithConor MacMichael1979Lost and FoundPatricia Brittenham1980HealthIsabella GarnellHopscotchIsobel1982Margaret GreyGiro CitySophieMade for Channel 4, but released in cinemas prior to the broadcast.1985Turtle DiaryNeaera Duncan1987Beyond TherapyCharlotte Wallace1988Business as UsualBabs FlynnSalome's Last DanceHerodias / Lady Alice1989Anna BrangwenDoombeachMiss1990King of the WindQueen Caroline2021Mothering SundayOlder Jane Fairchild 2023The Great EscaperIrene JordanPosthumous release
Television
Year Title Role Notes 1957ITV Play of the WeekIris JonesEpisode: "A Voice in Vision"1961ITV Play of the WeekJurywomanEpisode: "Dr Everyman's Hour"1963Z-CarsHospital Nurse / WPC Fernley2 episodes1965CathyEpisode: "Horror of Darkness"1967Half Hour StoryClaire FoleyEpisode: "Which of These Two Ladies Is He Married To?"1968The Wednesday PlayJulieEpisode: "Let's Murder Vivaldi"Armchair TheatreRuthEpisode: "Home Movies"1969ITV Sunday Night TheatreMarina PalekEpisode: "Salve Regina"1970ReviewReaderReader of extracts from A Pagan Place by Edna O'BrienPlay of the MonthMargaret SchlegelEpisode: "Howards End"1971Elizabeth RElizabeth ITV miniseries; 6 episodesShow of the WeekGuestEpisode: "The Morecambe and Wise Show"Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show19721973Full HouseReader ("The House that Jack Built")1977Night of 100 StarsGuest1979Christmas With Eric and ErnieChristmas special of the Morecambe and Wise Show1980The Morecambe and Wise Christmas ShowThe Muppet ShowSpecial Guest StarEpisode: "Glenda Jackson"1981Patricia NealTV film1982The Morecambe and Wise Christmas ShowGuest1984SakharovYelena Bonner (Sakharova)TV film1988American PlayhouseNina LeedsEpisode: "Strange Interlude"1989DoombeachTeacher1990Carol & CompanyDr. Doris KruberEpisode: "Kruber Alert"T.Bag's Christmas Ding DongVanity BagTV film1991Ailsa BrimleyBernarda1992Harriet Cohen2019Elizabeth Is MissingMaud
Short films Year Title Role Notes 1979 Build Me a World NarratorFor International Year of the Child1981Stop PolioCommentatorSponsored by Save the Children1982Save the Children in the SudanLet Poland Be PolandOn-screen participantSponsored by the International Communications Agency1986Man-Made FamineCommentator/NarratorSponsored by Channel 4The Labour PartyParty political broadcast for the Labour Party1987Facing SouthCommentatorSponsored by Voluntary Service Overseas1988The One Child FamilyPresenter/NarratorCo-produced by OxfamYunnanPresenter1990Death on DeliveryCommentatorMade in association with the Campaign Against Arms Trade1992Rise Up, Women! The Suffragette Campaign in LondonNarratorSponsored by the Museum of London2022The MicrocosmNarrator
Stage Year Title Role Venue 1952Mystery of GreenfingersYMCA Players, Hoylake1954Nothing But the TruthEthelTo Kill a CatMargaret Fenwick1956The Caucasian Chalk CircleChorusVanbrugh Theatre, LondonThe FrogsPygmalionEliza DoolittleSt Pancras Town HallThe Winter's TalePaulina1957Doctor in the HouseConnaught Theatre, WorthingSeparate TablesJean Stratton / Jean TannerQueen's Theatre, HornchurchRum PunchRing For CattyThe White Sheep of the FamilyAll Kinds of MenRubyArts Theatre, London1958An Inspector CallsNew Theatre, CreweMy Three AngelsMacadam and EveTrial and ErrorBook of the MonthJane EyreJane EyreThe Glass MenagerieBurdalaneOld Tyme Music HallA Girl Named SadieUK tour1961Fools Rush InPamDundee Repertory Theatre, DundeeIn Search of HappinessMarinaThe Durable ElementKatherineThe KitchenRoyal Court Theatre, London1962The IdiotNastasya FilippovnaLyric Theatre, HammersmithCome Back With DiamondsGuilty PartyWatford Palace Theatre, WatfordDouble Yolk1963AlfieSiddieMermaid Theatre, London; then the Duchess Theatre, London1964Theatre of CrueltyChristine Keeler / Jacqueline KennedyLondon Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, LondonThe ScreensKadidjaDonmar Warehouse, LondonMarat/SadeCharlotte CordayAldwych Theatre, LondonThe Jew of MaltaBellamira1965Love's Labour's LostPrincess of FranceRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonSquire Puntila and His Servant MattiEvaAldwych Theatre, LondonHamletOpheliaRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThe InvestigationWitness 4Aldwych Theatre, LondonMarat/SadeCharlotte CordayMartin Beck Theatre, New York1966USAldwych Theatre, London1967Three SistersMashaRoyal Court Theatre, LondonFanghornTamara FanghornFortune Theatre, London1973CollaboratorsKatherine WinterDuchess Theatre, London1974The MaidsSolangeGreenwich Theatre, London1975Hedda GablerHedda TesmanRichmond Theatre, London; then world tour (Australia, USA, Canada), and Aldwych Theatre, London1976The White DevilVittoria CorombonaThe Old Vic, London1977StevieStevie SmithVaudeville Theatre, London1978Antony and CleopatraCleopatraRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon1979Aldwych Theatre, London1980RoseRoseDuke of York's Theatre, London1981Cort Theatre, New York1982Summit ConferenceEva BraunLyric Theatre, Hammersmith1983Great and SmallLotteBritish tour; then Vaudeville Theatre, London1984Strange InterludeNina LeedsPreviews in Croydon and Nottingham; then Duke of York's Theatre, LondonPhedraPhedraThe Old Vic, London1985Strange InderludeNina LeedsNederlander Theatre, New YorkPhedraPhedraAldwych Theatre, LondonRacine, Jean; MacDonald, Robert David; Bartlett, Neil. (2010). Racine: Three Plays. United Kingdom: Oberon Books. 1986Across from the Garden of AllahBarbaraTour, then Comedy Theatre, LondonThe House of Bernarda AlbaBernardaLyric Theatre, Hammersmith1987Globe Theatre, London1988MacbethLady MacbethCanada and US tour; then Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York1989Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?MarthaDoolittle Theatre, Los Angeles1990Scenes from an ExecutionGalactiaAlmeida Theatre, LondonMother CourageMother CourageCitizens Theatre, Glasgow; then Mermaid Theatre, London1991Mourning Becomes ElectraChristine MannonCitizens Theatre, Glasgow2016King LearKing LearThe Old Vic, London2018Three Tall WomenAJohn Golden Theatre, New York2019King LearKing LearCort Theatre, New York
Audio
Radio Year Title Role Notes 1964Ars Longa Vita BrevisRoxana, his wifeBBC Network Three1965The InvestigationThe Witnesses (part of ensemble)1967Love in a CupboardRegina OlsenThe Representative of the PoemEmily DickinsonBBC Radio 3 poetry reading1969Afternoon TheatreChristaBBC Radio 4 episode: "The Road from Ruin by Frederick Benedict"Danton's DeathMarionBBC Radio 31976Emily DickinsonReader1978The Monday PlayStevieBBC Radio 4 episode: "Stevie"1980Woman's HourReaderBBC Radio 4 serial: Daughters of the Vicar by D. H. LawrenceThe Yellow WallpaperBBC Radio 3The Prague Trial 791981You Will Hear ThunderAnna Akhmatova1984Scenes From an ExecutionGalactia1988The Wednesday FeatureReaderBBC Radio 4 episode: "The Memory of Troy"1994With Great PleasureBBC Radio 4 episode2015Blood, Sex and Money by Emile ZolaDideBBC Radio 4: Three series (27 episodes; 2015–2016) 2017Drama The SoulBBC Radio 4 episode: "The Progress of the Soul of Lizzie Calvin"2018NarratorBBC Radio 4 episode: "Unmade Movies, Alexander MacKendrick's Mary Queen of Scots"2019Narrator / Mrs WhitakerBBC Radio 4 episode: "Neil Gaiman's 'Chivalry'"2020Fault Lines: Money, Sex and BloodConstanceBBC Radio 4: Three series (18 episodes; 2020–2022)Drama Dame EdithBBC Radio 4 episode: "Edith Sitwell in Scarborough"
Recordings Year Title Role NotesIssue 1962King Richard IIILady AnneThe Shakespeare Recording SocietyCaedmon SRS 223S (4-LP box set)1963Jean Genet: The BalconyGirlThe Theatre Recording Society Production FolioCaedmon TRS 316 M / S (mono / stereo; 3-LP box set)1967Marat / Sade - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack MusicCaedmon / United Artists Records UAL 4153 / UAS 5153 (mono / stereo)1968No ExitInezThe Theatre Recording SocietyCaedmon TRS 327 (2-LP set box set)Murder in the CathedralChorus of WomenCaedmon TRS 330 (2-LP box set)1975The Secret GardenNarratorAbridged novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, read by Glenda Jackson, music by Kenny Clayton.Argo ZSW 543/544/545/546 (4-LP box set)1976The Glenda Jackson Story BookReaderArgo ZSW 559The Glenda Jackson Story Book Vol. 2ReaderArgo ZSW 560The Mind Of Emily DickinsonReaderReadings from the letters and poetry of Emily Dickinson by Glenda Jackson.Argo ZSW 600/601 (2-LP set)1978Stravinsky: The Soldier's TaleNarratorWith Rudolf Nureyev and Micheál Mac Liammóir. Ensemble directed by Gennady Zalkowitsch.Argo ZNF 15 (also issued on cassette: Argo KZNC 15)Little Women by Louisa M. AlcottReaderMusic written and directed by Kenny ClaytonArgo 596/597/598 (3-LP set)Glenda Jackson Reads Stevie SmithArgo ZSW 6081979SteviePoems by Stevie Smith read by Glenda Jackson and Trevor Howard. From the soundtrack of the film Stevie.CBS 70165Gramophone. (1979). United Kingdom: General Gramophone Publications Limited.1983Your Favorite Poems: Volume TwoSelection of poems read by British theatre actorsNewman / Argo 200801984Noel Edmonds Presents Listen With Mother'The Crotchety Tooth' by Margaret HopkinsBBC Records REC 525 / BBC Cassettes ZCM 5251989Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertNarratorDove Books-On-Tape, Phoenix Books1993Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonaldDove Kids1994Persuasion by Jane AustenDove Audio, Phoenix Books1995The Great Speeches: A Celebration in Words and Music by William ShakespeareReaderA White Rose Globe Theatre ProductionPenguin Classics / Penguin Audiobooks PEN 2901996Aesop's Fables (Volume Three)NarratorPerformed by various readersDove EntertainmentSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenDove Audio 81820The Prince's Choice: A Personal Selection from ShakespeareReaderPerformed by various readersHighbridge AudioAesop's Fables (Volume Four)Dove Books1997Northanger Abbey by Jane AustenNarratorDove AudioFifty Poems of Emily DickinsonReaderAnthology read by various performersDove Audio/Phoenix BooksThe Poetry of the RomanticsPerformed by various readersDove Audio1998The Greatest American Poetry1999Seven Ages - An Anthology of Poetry With MusicGlenda Jackson reads 'The Victory' by Anne Stevenson, 'Full Fathom Five' by William Shakespeare, 'Echo' by Christina Rossetti and 'Sonnet 18' by William ShakespeareNaxos NA218912
References
External links
Glenda Jackson on BBC Genome