Biography
Glenda May Jackson CBE (9 May 1936, Birkenhead, Cheshire – 15 June 2023) was an English actress and politician. She was one of the few artists to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, having won two Academy Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. She was made a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1978. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice: for her roles in Women in Love (1970) and A Touch of Class (1973). She won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Sunday Bloody Sunday...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Great Escaper
2023
as Irene Jordan
In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Norman...

Mothering Sunday
2021
as Jane (Older)
On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven, are out ...

Mothers of the Revolution
2021
as Narrator (voice)
On 5th September 1981, a group of women came together to change the world. These women marched from Wales to Berkshire to protest over nuclear weapons...

Elizabeth Is Missing
2019
as Maud Palmer Horsham
Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threatens to erase all the clues, giving the search a po...

Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me
2017
as Self
Eric and Ernie devotee Miranda Hart celebrates the incomparable comedy duo as she takes a look back at their top twenty greatest TV moments, ranked by...

Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
2012
as Self
Following the recent death of Ken Russell, Alan Yentob looks back over the career of the flamboyant film director responsible for Women In Love, Tommy...

Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
2011
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A history of the British television comedy double act Morecambe & Wise to coincide with the BBC drama about their early lives.

The Best of Morecambe and Wise
2001
as Self (archive footage)
Compilation of sketches featuring the much-loved funnymen Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Includes 'Anthony and Cleopatra' with Glenda Jackson, 'Monty ...

A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai
1994
as Alexandra Kollontai (voice)
A look at the life of the Russian revolutionary Marxist Alexandra Kollontai

The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
1992
as Harriet Cohen
A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.

The House of Bernarda Alba
1991
as Bernarda
A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have n...

A Murder of Quality
1991
as Alisa Brimley
At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just receive...

King of the Wind
1990
as Queen Caroline
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a...

The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty
1990
as Glitch the Witch (voice)
Humpty was an overgrown, misunderstood egg. But one day, he ended up in the right place at the right time and his luck changed. When he overheard Glit...

The Rainbow
1989
as Anna Brangwen
Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beautiful young woman full of imagination and ambition....

Doombeach
1989
as Miss Ricketts
A young boy dies after swimming at a seaside resort, and the local children, led by Gavin, investigate and are led to suspect that contamination from ...

Strange Interlude
1988
as Nina Leeds
Adaptation of an experimental play in nine acts by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Strange Interlude makes extensive use of a soliloquy technique,...

Salome's Last Dance
1988
as Herodias / Lady Alice
London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury b...

Beyond Therapy
1987
as Charlotte
Manhattanites Bruce and Prudence are each looking for a meaningful romantic relationship and have been encouraged by their psychiatrists to find someo...

Business as Usual
1987
as Babs Flynn
After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her job in a disagreement with the manager over sexual...

Turtle Diary
1985
as Neaera Duncan
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd,...

Sakharov
1984
as Yelena Bonner
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.

The Return of the Soldier
1983
as Margaret Grey
The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn't even recognize his own wife, Kitt...

Giro City
1982
as Sophie
Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth censorship and corruption back home.

Let Poland Be Poland
1982
as Self - Co-Host
Broadcast live via satellite around the world on January 31, 1982, this special produced by the US International Communication Agency protesting the t...

The Patricia Neal Story
1981
as Patricia Neal
The dramatic account of actress Patricia Neal's miraculous recovery from a near-fatal stroke in 1966 with the help of her then-husband, author Roald D...

Blood Donors
1981
as Self
"You told me you'd take me to Hollywood!" cries Glenda - but Ernie quips, "No, Cricklewood". Thus the wisecracks begin in this entertaining appeal for...

Hopscotch
1980
as Isobel
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destro...

HealtH
1980
as Isabella Garnell
At a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual convention. As the conference progresses, underhanded tri...

Lost and Found
1979
as Tricia
While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced British secretary, Patricia, wherever they go. First th...

The Class Of Miss MacMichael
1979
as Conor MacMichael
A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.

Stevie
1978
as Stevie Smith
For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her ...

House Calls
1978
as Ann Atkinson
Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, ...

Nasty Habits
1977
as Sister Alexandra
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way ...

The Incredible Sarah
1976
as Sarah Bernhardt
The legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt's unconventional life and career are examined in this biopic. At an audition in 1860, the teenage Bernhardt proc...

Hedda
1975
as Hedda
Returning from her honeymoon with her husband, scholar Jorgen, the cold and manipulative Hedda Gabler is unmoved by the sacrifices he's made to provid...

The Romantic Englishwoman
1975
as Elizabeth
A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going ...

The Maids
1975
as Solange
A film version of Genet's play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and i...

The Tempter
1974
as Sister Geraldine
A young writer is invited to stay in a religious hostel run by a sinister, manipulative nun who plays deadly psychological games with the inhabitants.

A Touch of Class
1973
as Vicki Allessio
Steve, a happily married American man living in London meets Vicki, an English divorcée and run off to Marbella for a rollicking week of sex. They the...

Bequest to the Nation
1973
as Lady Hamilton
Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton during the Napoleonic Wars.

The Triple Echo
1972
as Alice Charlesworth
After her husband is captured during WWII, homesteader Alice is forced to maintain their land herself. One day, a wandering soldier named Barton stops...

Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
as Queen Elizabeth
Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the ag...

The Boy Friend
1971
as Rita Monroe
When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place.

Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
as Alex Greville
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately...

The Music Lovers
1971
as Antonina 'Nina' Milyukova
Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately, he chooses wacky n...

The Pacemakers: Glenda Jackson
1971
as Self
Central Office of Information profile of actress, Glenda Jackson discussing her roles in Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Women in Love, as well as views on ...

Women in Love
1969
as Gudrun Brangwen
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a weal...

Negatives
1968
as Vivien
A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.
Let's Murder Vivaldi
1968
as Julie
Two couples let tensions build between them in this 'Wednesday Play'.

Tell Me Lies
1968
as Glenda
Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in Lo...
Which of These Two Ladies Is He Married To?
1967
as Claire Foley

Marat/Sade
1967
as Charlotte Corday
In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Ass...

The Benefit of the Doubt
1967
as Self
A documentary following US, Peter Brook's experimental play about the moral issues surrounding the Vietnam War, Benefit of the Doubt is the only known...

Opus
1967
as Charlotte Corday (Marat/Sade)
Impressions of contemporary British arts and fashion. Summary of art through the ages taking in every thing from Mary Quant to the Marat/Sade producti...

Horror of Darkness
1965
as Cathy
A studio-based drama by John Hopkins focusing on a trio of people at the point of crisis, with an underlying theme of homosexuality a couple of years ...

This Sporting Life
1963
as Singer at Party (uncredited)
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by l...

The Extra Day
1956
as Extra (uncredited)
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's cur...

Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story
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A documentary on John Schlesinger and Michael Childers.