We will not see her like again, a fine fine actor (one of our very finest and we can be forgiven for forgetting quite how beautiful she was . . . . . .
Glenda Jackson, May 9, 1936 – June 15, 2023.
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GLENDA JACKSON dies at 87
Sir Jonathan Pryce said he believed she was "the greatest actor that this country has ever produced”.
Sir Michael Caine has described actress and former MP Glenda Jackson as "one of our greatest movie actresses" following her death aged 87.
Jackson won two Oscars, three Emmys, two Baftas and a Tony in an acting career which spanned six decades.
Sir Jonathan Pryce said he believed she was "the greatest actor that this country has ever produced".
Jackson gave up acting to join the House of Commons as a Labour MP in north London from 1992 to 2015.
That included two years as a junior transport minister in Tony Blair's New Labour government from 1997.
She later returned to acting, playing King Lear on stage in 2016, then winning a Bafta for her screen comeback in the TV drama Elizabeth Is Missing in 2020. BBC TV
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