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Glenda Jackson CBE MP (born May 9, 1936) is a
United Kingdom|British Academy Award|Oscar-winning
actor|actress and politician, currently British
Labour Party|Labour Member of Parliament for the
constituency of Hampstead and Highgate (UK
Parliament constituency)|Hampstead and Highgate in
the London Borough of Camden.  

She was born at Birkenhead near Liverpool, into a
working-class family, and it is a well-known piece
of trivia that she once worked in Boots the
Chemist.  Having studied acting at RADA, Jackson
made her professional stage debut in Terence
Rattigan|Rattigan's Separate Tables in 1957 and
her film debut in This Sporting Life in 1963.   

Fame came with Jackson's starring role in the
controversial Women in Love (1969) gaining her
first Oscar, and another controversial role as
Tchaikovsky's nymphomaniac wife in Ken Russell's
The Music Lovers added to her image of being
prepared to do almost anything for her art.  She
confirmed this by having her head shaved in order
to play Queen Elizabeth I of England in the BBC's
1971 blockbuster serial, Elizabeth R.  Having
accumulated a second Academy Award|Oscar for her
role in A Touch of Class (1973), she also
portrayed Queen Elizabeth on a film about the life
of Mary, Queen of Scots and she has been
recognised as one of Britain's leading actresses. 

In 1978, she was made a Order of the British
Empire|Commander of the Order of the British
Empire.

She retired from acting in order to enter the
House of Commons in the United Kingdom general
election, 1992 | 1992 general election as the
Labour MP for the Hampstead and Highgate (UK
Parliament constituency)| Hampstead & Highgate
constituency. After the United Kingdom general
election, 1997 | 1997 general election, she was
appointed a junior minister in the British
government|government of British Prime Minister |
Prime Minister, Tony Blair, with responsibilty for
London Transport, a post she resigned before an
attempt to be nominated as the British Labour
Party|Labour candidate for the election of the
first Mayor of London in 2000. This was eventually
gained by Frank Dobson, who lost the election to
Ken Livingstone, the independent candidate. In the
United Kingdom general election, 2005 | 2005
general election, she received 14,615 votes,
representing 38.29% of the votes cast in the
constituency. 

As a low profile Backbencher she has become a
regular critic of Blair over his plans to
introduce top-up fees. She also called for him to
resign following the Judicial Enquiry by Lord
Hutton in 2003 surrounding the reasons for going
to war in Iraq and the death of government adviser
Dr. David Kelly.

Jackson is generally considered to be a
traditional left-winger, often disagreeing with
the dominant Blairite faction in the Labour Party.

==Filmography==
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|Year
|Title
|Character
|-
| 1963 in film|1963 
|The Sporting Life 
|Bit part 
|-
|  1967in film|1967 
|Marat/Sade
|Charlotte Corday
|-
| 1968in film|1968 
|Tell Me Lies
|Guest
|-
| 1968 in film|1968 
|Let's Murder Vivaldi (TV) 
|Julie
|-
| 1968 in film|1968 
|Negatives
|Vivien
|-
| 1969 in film|1969
|Women in Love
|Gudrun Brangwen
|-
| 1969 in film|1969 
|Salve Regina (TV)
|Marina Palek
|-
| 1970 in film|1970 
|Howards End (TV)
| 
|-
| 1970 in film|1970 
|The Music Lovers
|Nina (Antonina Milyukova)
|-
| 1971 in film|1971 
|Sunday Bloody Sunday
| Alex Greville
|-
| 1971 in film|1971 
|The Boy Friend
| Rita
|-
| 1971 in film|1971 
|Mary, Queen of Scots
|Queen Elizabeth I
|-
| 1971 in film|1971 
|Elizabeth R (mini) TV Series
| Queen Elizabeth I
|-
| 1972 in film|1972 
|The Triple Echo
|Alice
|-
| 1973 in film|1973 
|A Touch of Class
|Vicki Allessio
|-
|1973 in film|1973 
|A Bequest to the Nation
| Lady Hamilton
|-
| 1974 in film|1974 
|The Maids
|Solange
|-
| 1975 in film|1975 
|The Romantic Englishwoman
|. Elizabeth Fielding
|-
|1975 in film|1975
|Il Sorriso del grande tentatore
|Sister Geraldine
|-
|1975 in film|1975
|Hedda
| Hedda Gabler
|-
| 1976 in film|1976 
|The Incredible Sarah
|Sarah Bernhardt
|-
| 1977 in film|1977 
|Nasty Habits
|Sister Alexandra
|-
| 1978 in film|1978 
|House Calls
|. Ann Atkinson 
|-
|1978 in film|1978
|Stevie
|Stevie Smith
|-
|1978 in film|1978
|The Class of Miss MacMichael
|Conor MacMichael
|-
| 1979 in film|1979 
|Lost and Found
|Tricia 
|-
| 1980 in film|1980 
|Hopscotch
| Isobel von Schonenberg
|-
| 1981 in film|1981 
|The Patricia Neal Story (TV)
|Patricia Neal
|-
| 1982 in film|1982 
|HealtH
|Isabella Garnell
|-
| 1982 in film|1982 
|The Return of the Soldier
|Margaret Grey
|-
| 1982 in film|1982 
|Giro City
|Sophie
|-
| 1984 in film|1984 
|Sakharov (TV)
|Yelena Bonner (Sakharova)
|-
| 1985 in film|1985 
|Turtle Diary
| Neaera Duncan
|-
| 1987 in film|1987 
|Beyond Therapy
|Charlotte
|-
| 1987 in film|1987 
|Business as Usual
| Babs Flynn
|-
| 1988 in film|1988 
|Strange Interlude (TV)
|Nina Leeds
|-
| 1988 in film|1988 
|Salome's Last Dance 
| Herodias/Lady Alice
|-
| 1989 in film|1989 
|The Rainbow
|Anna Brangwen
|-
| 1989 in film|1989
|King of the Wind
|Queen Caroline 
|-
| 1989 in film|1989
|Doombeach
|Miss 
|-
| 1990 in film|1990 
|T-Bag's Christmas Ding Dong (TV)
|Vanity Bag
|-
| 1990 in film|1990
|The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty 
| Glitch the Witch (voice)
|-
| 1991 in film|1991 
|The House of Bernarda Alba (TV)
| Bernarda Alba
|-
| 1991 in film|1991 
|A Murder of Quality (TV)
|Ailsa Brimley
|-
| 1992 in film|1992 
|The Secret Life of Arnold Bax (TV)
|Harriet Cohen
|-
| 1994 in film|1994 
|A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra
Kollontai (TV)
|Alexandra Kollontai (voice)
|}

==External links==
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*http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-266
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*http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/glenda_jackson/h
ampstead_and_highgate TheyWorkForYou.com - Glenda
Jackson