Glenda jackson

Glenda Jackson photographed by Terry O’Neill, 1980.

Actress/politician Glenda Jackson received her third Best Actress nomination and second Oscar for playing Vicki Allessio, a divorced woman who's having an affair with a married man in Melvin Frank's Best Picture nominated movie, A Touch of Class. Glenda's second Oscar is one of the biggest upsets in Oscar history. She was the one who was not expected to win at all and the other actresses must have been (were :D) really pissed off. Furthermore, this became one of the least popular Oscar wins…

Glenda Jackson, a two-time Oscar-winning actress renowned for her extraordinary skill and illustrious career in politics and the film industry, has died at 87. Jackson passed away quietly at her London home with her family at her side after a brief illness. Fans, coworkers, and friends have flooded social media with condolence messages in honor of her life and achievements in the entertainment industry.

Glenda Jackson

She burst onto the world scene in the late 1960s with her independence, intelligence, slightly androgynous looks and saucer-like, mocha nipples, all of which were in full bloom in most of her subsequent movies. For my money, I didn't think I'd ever seen anyone quite like her. The 1970s were unquestionably her most acclaimed decade. By the early 1990s she was doing TV movies and then said goodbye to it all and went into politics. What a career! What an actress! What a woman! She was born in…

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After winning two Oscars, she stopped acting for decades to fight Thatcherism. Now, at 81, she’s tackling an Edward Albee classic. But she insists, “I lead a very dull life.”

1970 - Glenda Jackson (Women in Love)

Glenda Jackson 1970 for her role as Gudrun Brangwen in Women In Love (1970)