Glenda Jackson - Awards - IMDb Glenda Jackson Showing all 19 wins and 17 nominations Academy Awards, USA A Touch of Class (1973) Glenda Jackson was not present at the awards ceremony. The film's writer-director-producer Melvin ... More Glenda Jackson was not present at the awards ceremony. The film's writer-director-producer Melvin Frank accepted the award on her behalf. Glenda Jackson – MovieActors.com Glenda Jackson: Best Actress in 1969 and 1973: MovieActors.com 1969: WOMEN IN LOVE (Drama – R) Glenda Jackson won her first Oscar for her performance as Gudrun Brangwen, who was caught in a tragic love affair with an executive (Oliver Reed). 1973: A TOUCH OF CLASS (Romantic Comedy – PG) Glenda Jackson won her second Oscar for her performance as a London business woman who was flirting with a married American man (George Segal).

About Glenda Jackson (1936 – ) Glenda Jackson was born on May 9th, 1936 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, to a bricklayer/Navy man. He was recruited into the Navy where he worked on a minesweeper. She graduated from school at 16, and worked in a pharmacy, which bored her, being a young lady with high intelligence. She applied to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and was accepted into the prestigious institution at eighteen. Her ability really impressed everyone who saw her. After working on the stage, Glenda started working in films. Glenda Jackson won the Best Actress Oscar for her work in the 1969 Ken Russell film adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novel, WOMEN IN LOVE, with Alan Bates and Oliver Reed. Glenda Jackson was nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role as a sculptor in an abusive relationship with a competitive man. In SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY (1971), Jackson played a divorced business woman, who was the dejected female lover of a bisexual man, Played by Peter Finch, who was perpetrating a menage a trois.

In the same year, 1971, Glenda played Queen Elizabeth I in MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. She also played Queen Elizabeth I in the BBC bio pic mini series ELIZABETH R, to great critical acclaim. Glenda Jackson won an Oscar for her performance in A TOUCH OF CLASS (1973), a romantic comedy about a family man and a divorcee, who fall in love while having a fling together. Jackson was again nominated for an Oscar for her performance in HEDDA (1976). She continued working in films in the '80s and into the early 90's. Glenda stopped her acting career when she was elected to the British Parliament in 1992, and served until the end of the 2015 term. She unsuccessfully ran for mayor of London in 2000 and 2005. Glenda has the distinction of being the only Member of Parliament that has won an oscar. Glenda Jackson, who did not appear at the Academy Awards either time she won an Oscar quipped of her Oscars "My mother polishes them to within an inch of their lives until the metal shows.

That sums up the Academy Awards - all glitter on the outside and base metal coming through. Nice presents for a day. But they don't make you any better." On her acting methods, Jackson wryly commented, "When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life." Glenda Jackson also received Best Actress nominations for: SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY(1971) Glenda Jackson's notable movie credits include... THIS SPORTING LIFE (1963) KING OF THE WIND (1990) DOOMBEACH (1989) Glenda Jackson's television credits include...

THE PATRICIA NEAL STORY (TV Movie 1981) GIRO CITY (1982) ELIZABETH R (TV Mini-Series 1971) THE PATRICIA NEAL (TV Movie 1981) SAKHAROV (TV Movie 1984) THE REAL STORY OF HUMPTY DUMPTY(1990) THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA (TV Movie 1991) A MURDER OF QUALITY (TV Movie 1991) SECRET LIFE OF SIR ARNOLD BAX (TV Movie 1992) A WAVE OF PASSION: THE LIFE OF ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI (1994) THE SKETCH SHOW STORY - (TV Series) Glenda Jackson in HOPSCOTCH (1980). Glenda Jackson in A TOUCH OF CLASS (1973). Glenda Jackson in HOUSE CALLS (1978). Best "Best Actress" of the 1970s Follow DL on Best "Best Actress" of the 1970s Who do you think was most deserving of the prize?

The winners:%0D %0D 1970: Glenda Jackson in "Women in Love"%0D %0D 1971: Jane Fonda in "Klute"%0D %0D 1972: Liza Minnelli in "Cabaret"%0D %0D 1973: Glenda Jackson in "A Touch of Class"%0D %0D 1974: Ellen Burstyn in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"%0D %0D 1975: Louise Fletcher in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"%0D %0D 1976: Faye Dunaway in "Network"%0D %0D 1977: Diane Keaton in "Annie Hall"%0D %0D 1978: Jane Fonda in "Coming Home"%0D %0D 1979: Sally Field in "Norma Rae" by Anonymous reply 63 01/25/2011 Fonda in Klute, Burstyn and Dunaway are all tops; in the end, I went with Dunaway.

by Anonymous reply 1 01/22/2011 Looking at that list makes me sad for the state of movies today. Every one of those actresses and the movies they won for were wonderful, and I doubt any of them could get made today in our dumbed-down culture.%0D %0D I'll tie with Liza and Faye, but they were all great performances. by Anonymous reply 2 01/22/2011 This is the hardest of the best actress decade polls. Movies were really great in the 70s. I voted Louise Fletcher, but what competition. by Anonymous reply 3 01/22/2011 Least deserving was Glenda in that crock of shit Touch of Class.%0D %0D Keaton really won for both Annie Hall & Goodbar combined and for those two she gets my vote. by Anonymous This makes me realize how amazing movies were in the 70s. by Anonymous reply 5 01/22/2011 Fonda is my choice.%0D %0D Damn, but this list stomps all over the others that have been posted.

by Anonymous reply 6 01/22/2011 Glenda completely deserved it for Women in Love. But the competition nominated in 73 was on the weak side. Maybe Babs for The Way We Were? The Exorcist obviously wasn't the one for Burstyn. Marsha Mason--eh. Joanne Woodward for a very obscure movie? Not that Touch of Class is anything earthshaking. by Anonymous "Touch of Class" just sucks. And Jackson--a very talented performer--is dreadful in it. by Anonymous reply 8 01/22/2011 Burstyn for me. She is probably one of the most natural actors ever. She never looks like she's acting. And ADLHA is still a great film. by Anonymous [quote]Who do you think was most deserving of the prize? GENA ROWLANDS THAT'S WHO, OP. by Anonymous Sorry but Mason was unbelievable in Cinderella Liberty. by Anonymous reply 11 01/22/2011 It wasn't a lead role, but I still can't believe Dianne Kay wasn't nominated for her work alongside Wendie Jo Sperber in Spielberg's "1941".

by Anonymous reply 12 01/22/2011 "1941" is one of those movies that was trashed with a great deal of gusto, but was actually pretty good. by Anonymous Kathleen Quinlan "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden." Amazing performance. by Anonymous I just love how the awards queens think this matters somewhere in the universe. by Anonymous I love people like R15, who think this is anything but a diversion. by Anonymous reply 16 01/22/2011 Among the actresses who turned down Nurse Ratched:%0D %0D Jane Fonda%0D Geraldine Page (which is CRIMINAL -- she'd have been BRILLIANT)%0D Anne Bancroft%0D Colleen Dewhurst (again,she'd have been terrific)%0D Angela Lansbury by Anonymous reply 17 01/22/2011 I thought Lily Tomlin was the most high-profile actress who was almost Nurse Ratched. She turned it down to do Nashville? by Anonymous reply 18 01/22/2011 Hold the phone, R16.

Our votes here don't count for a special Academy Award being announced on this year's broadcast? by Anonymous reply 19 01/22/2011 The role of Linnea Reese was created for and by Louise Fletcher, who herself was the daughter of two deaf parents and knew sign language. The role was eventually played by Lily Tomlin. Tomlin concluded that things worked out in the end because she was offered the role of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and turned it down, which enabled Fletcher to eventually get it, so in a sense they simply traded roles. by Anonymous reply 20 01/22/2011 I never understood the appeal of Cuckoo's Nest.%0D Everyone thought it was so fantastic at the time. It bored me. by Anonymous There's not a single performance on that list that I like. by Anonymous 01/22/2011 And it was a career killer for Louise Fletcher, R21. Angela Lansbury was offered the part and wisely turned it down. She explained this on Larry King a few years ago.

by Anonymous reply 23 01/22/2011 [quote]There's not a single performance on that list that I like%0D %0D Please name a performance that you do like.%0D I'm fascinated. by Anonymous reply 24 01/22/2011 Fonda or Keaton. Of course the best actress of the decade is Liv Ullmann, but she never won. by Anonymous reply 25 01/22/2011 Jane Fonda earned her first Oscar for [italic]Klute[/italic], a very rich and observant performance. Especially that scene where she's bored with the trick and eyes her watch for the next appointment. The second one, [italic]Coming Home[/italic], Acad voters fucking blew it -- and it should have gone to Jill Clayburgh ([italic]An Unmarried Woman[/italic]) followed by Ingrid Bergman (who should not have won for [italic]Murder on the Orient Express[/italic] but, if she had to win a third statue, was more worthy for [italic]Autumn Sonata[/italic]).

by Anonymous reply 26 01/22/2011 I am so tired of jealous queens who denigrate Ingrid Bergman's performance in Orient Express as unworthy of an Academy Award. It is, in fact, a master class in film acting. Especially her big scene done in one uninterrupted take in close up. And despite what dear, generous Ingrid said herself, that god-awful Italian ham, Valentina Corteses did not deserve to win for leaving her molar impressions all over the Mediterranean scenery. by Anonymous reply 28 01/22/2011 I'm sorry, R27, but I could never get into Ingrid Bergman's acting. If it was up to me she would not have any Oscars at all. None of her 3 Oscars were deserved IMO. by Anonymous reply 29 01/22/2011 Fonda, Liza, Faye and Ellen certainly, plus Keaton (though maybe not for Annie Hall). %0D %0D Anyone but Glenda in 73 - I had no interest in seeing that comedy.

by Anonymous reply 30 01/22/2011 I'm sorry too, r27, really sorry, but I feel exactly the same as R29. I think she's a terrinbly mannered actress. I'm so sorry about that. Maybe, as you say, I'm jealous. What I'm jealous of I'm not sure, but maybe I am. I also hate her big face and annoying accent. Jealousy does strange things to one I guess. by Anonymous reply 31 01/22/2011 Ingrid and Liv should have jointly won for Autumn Sonata in 78 - that scene at the piano is a masterclass in acting by both of them. by Anonymous Karen Black was the QUEEN of the 70's. by Anonymous reply 36 01/22/2011 I agree with R35, yet I think it was appropriate for the Chayefsky script. Yet, I still don't think Dunaway's performance was oscar-worthy, as good as it was.%0D %0D Liza? Are you queens crazy? Liza is always just playing Liza.

%0D %0D Fletcher is entirely mannered in her performance, as good as it is. There is no nuance in it. It's all 'bitch on wheels' who can't be pleased.%0D %0D I went with Norma Rae, because I actually remember sympathizing with her character and rooting for her. Every part of Field's performance seemed completely real to me...and I don't really like Sally so that's saying something.%0D %0D Don't confuse 'great movies' with 'great actresses'. The thing that made 70's movies great in retrospect was the fact that real looking people were cast, and the screenwriters were all in a class by themselves, competing with each other. Hollywood stood for a great story, above all else, even above acting. Don't give the performers all the credit.

by Anonymous reply 41 01/22/2011 As much as I liked Glenda Jackson in A Touch of Class, in 1973, Barbra Streisand deserved the Oscar for The Way We Were.%0D %0D However, I read that Babs was not too popular in Hollywood that year, and it was a grudge vote against her. by Anonymous reply 42 01/22/2011 Fletcher was fired from Nashville because Altman and Fletcher's then husband got into a dispute and ultimately cost Fletcher the part in Nashville. [quote]And it was a career killer for Louise Fletcher, [R21]. Not at all. Fletcher was a 41 year old TV character actress who was just getting back into the industry after taking a decade off to raise a family. She didn't become a huge superstar but has worked pretty much non stop since her Oscar win. Something that would not have happened w/out Cuckoo's nest. Anne Bancroft turned down Cuckoo's Nest, Network, and The Godfather.

She was also attached at one time to Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as well as The Exorcist but got pregnant and had to bow out. She made a few unmemorable movies (including Lipstick) during that time and lobbied hard for The Turning Point part. by Anonymous reply 43 01/22/2011 [quote]However, I read that Babs was not too popular in Hollywood that year, and it was a grudge vote against her. No it wasn't. There wasn't a consensus of who was going to win that year and the rumor was that Jackson only won by one vote and there was only a 4 vote spread between first and fifth place that year. by Anonymous reply 44 01/22/2011 [quote]Hollywood stood for a great story, above all else, even above acting. Don't give the performers all the credit.%0D %0D I think you're right. Actors weren't nearly as hyped up then. A lot of the people in the list were just lucky to be acting during a very good era, when quality counted.

Look at the stuff Diane Keaton has done over the last 15 years! They give her no credibility at all. by Anonymous reply 45 01/22/2011 R45, quality counts today as well. The issue with today is that the 'fame machine' has become such a well greased machine that it gets in the way of the story for many mainstream films. %0D %0D But every year, quality gets made, it's just deeper underground with less profit. by Anonymous One more vote for Karen Black. She owns this thread. by Anonymous reply 47 01/22/2011 I second the notion that Streisand should have won in 73 for TWWW. She gave a brilliant performance in a part that nobody else could have played as well as she did. Judgmental Hollywood gave the Oscar to someone undeserving, just as they did in 54 with Garland and Kelly. Liza gives a brilliant performance in Cabaret and is one of the decades best. Again, no one else could have played that part as well as she did. I also think Fonda in Klute is great and deserves to be remembered.

by Anonymous Rowlands is dynamite in the Casavettes movies, especially Opening Night and Woman Under The Influence. by Anonymous 01/22/2011 "Among the actresses who turned down Nurse Ratched: Jane Fonda Geraldine Page (which is CRIMINAL -- she'd have been BRILLIANT) Anne Bancroft Colleen Dewhurst (again,she'd have been terrific) Angela Lansbury" I think they were all smart to do so. Fonda wasn't right for the role. Page probably felt she could do it in her sleep and be brilliant but it offered her nothing new, no real change from many roles she had done before. Bancroft, Dewhurst and Lansbury would similarly offer yet another predictable bitchy role to their reps. Fletcher was perfect and Ullman would have been amazing. Both women have a natural mellow quality which balances Ratched's underlying dangeousness. by Anonymous reply 53 01/22/2011 Surprised Burstyn wasn't offered Ratched. She and Fletcher are so similar and Bustyn, unlike Fletcher, was a big star.

I think the most interesting choice for Ratched at the time would have been Jane Alexander. by Anonymous They should have offered Nurse Ratched to Joan Crawford, who would have been amazing. by Anonymous reply 55 01/22/2011 May I veer OT for a minute and offer that I hate the movie of Cuckoo's Nest? I adored the book when I read it as a kid, but the movie is so awful and heavy-handed. Fletcher's work is very good, but watching it I was rooting for her to get Nicholson lobotomized. Not what you're supposed to feel, right? by Anonymous reply 56 01/22/2011 "There wasn't a consensus of who was going to win that year and the rumor was that Jackson only won by one vote and there was only a 4 vote spread between first and fifth place that year"%0D %0D I've heard a similar story, but it was applied to Streisand's first oscar win. The reason for the tie was that she was given membership that year and had voted for herself. If she voted for someone else, Hepburn would have been the sole winner.

%0D %0D by Anonymous reply 57 01/22/2011 I voted for Jane Fonda, and while she was great in "Klute", she really should have won for "They Shoot Horses, Don't They". Ellen Burstyn was a very close second, though. by Anonymous reply 58 01/22/2011 As good as Liza was, I truly do not think she deserved it over Diana Ross%E2%80%99 superb film debut performance in LADY SINGS THE BLUES. I can%E2%80%99t help but wonder if they didn%E2%80%99t give Liza the Oscar to make up for her mother Judy not getting an Oscar for A STAR IS BORN. by Anonymous reply 59 01/22/2011 Umm...no R59. As Liza herself said in her acceptance speech, "Thank you for giving ME this award." by Anonymous reply 60 01/22/2011 good lord, r59, I can't disagree with you more.

Ross is fine is LSTB, but she is not brilliant. Liza is brilliant in Cabaret. Anyone else in the role wouldn't have had half the effect she did. by Anonymous Glenda Jackson | Parliament | ZoomInfo.com Current MP, actress Glenda Jackson, is not running for re-election. Glenda Jackson Member of Parliament for Hampstead and Kilburn Glenda Jackson Member of Parliament for Hampstead and Kilburn Seven Things to Know About Glenda ... Seven Things to Know About Glenda Jackson | 7:01 PM | 9 comments ... Seven Things to Know About Glenda Jackson 1. After a stellar career in film, television, and the stage, Glenda Jackson retired from acting in 1992 and ran for a seat in the British Parliament as a Labor Party candidate. She won the election and is still serving as a Member of Parliament. Click here to visit 2. She played Queen Elizabeth in a TV series and a theatrical motion picture in the same year. In 1971, she performance in the title role of the critically-acclaimed BBC miniseries Elizabeth R. Later that year, she portrayed Elizabeth again opposite Vanessa Redgrave in Mary, Queen of Scots. 3.

Actually, 1971 was a pretty impressive year for Glenda Jackson. She also won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Ken Russell's adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love. Ms. Jackson won a second Oscar in 1974 for the romantic comedy A Touch of Class. ... 4. In 1989's The Rainbow, Glenda Jackson played the mother of the character she portrayed in Women in Love. ... 6. Glenda Jackson was nominated for four Tony Awards for her stage performances, once in 1966 and three times in the 1980s. However, she Glenda Jackson - Biography - IMDb Glenda Jackson Biography Showing all 67 items Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (26) | Personal Quotes (31) | Salary (3) Overview (3) 5' 6½" (1.69 m) Mini Bio (1) Few in modern British history have come as far or achieved as much from humble beginnings as Glenda Jackson has.

From acclaimed actress to respected MP (Member of Parliament), she is known for her high intelligence and meticulous approach to her work. She was born to a working-class household in Birkenhead, where her father was a bricklayer and her mother was a cleaning lady. When she was very young, her father was recruited into the Navy, where he worked aboard a minesweeper. She graduated from school at 16 and worked for a while in a pharmacy. However, she found this boring and dead-end and wanted better for herself. Her life changed forever when she was accepted into the prestigious Royal Acadamy of Dramatic Art (RADA) at the age of 18. Her work impressed all who observed it. In addition, she married Roy Hodges at 22. Her first work came on the stage, where she won a role in an adaptation of "Separate Tables", and made a positive impression on critics and audiences alike. This led to film roles, modest at first, but she approached them with great determination. She first came to the public's notice when she won a supporting role in the controversial film Marat/Sade (1967), and is acknowledged to have stolen the show.

She quickly became a member of Britian's A-List. Her first starring role came in the offbeat drama Negatives (1968), in which she out-shone the oddball material. The following year, controversial director Ken Russell gave her a starring role in his adaptation of the 1920s romance Women in Love (1969), in which she co-starred with Oliver Reed . The beautifully photographed film was a major success, and Jackson's performance won her an Academy Award for Best Actress. In the process, she became an international celebrity, known world-wide, yet she didn't place as much value on the status and fame as most do. She did, however, become a major admirer of Russell (who had great admiration for her in return) and acted in more of his films. She starred in the controversial The Music Lovers (1970), even though it required her to do a nude scene, something that made her very uncomfortable. The film was not a success, but she agreed to do a cameo appearance in his next film, The Boy Friend (1971). Although her role as an obnoxious actress was very small, she once again performed with great aplomb.

1971 turned out to be a key year for her. She took a risk by appearing in Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), as a divorced businesswoman in a dead-end affair with a shallow bisexual artist, but the film turned out to be another major success. Also, she accepted the starring role in the British Broadcasting Corporation's much anticipated biography of Queen Elizabeth I, and her performance in the finished film, Elizabeth R (1971), was praised not only by critics and fans, but is cited by historians as the most accurate portrayal of the beloved former queen ever seen. The same year, she successfully played the role of Queen Elizabeth I again in the historical drama Mary, Queen of Scots (1971). That same year, she appeared in the popular comedy series The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968) in a skit as Queen Cleopatra, which is considered on of the funniest TV skits in British television, and also proof that she could do comedy just as well as costume melodrama. One who saw and raved about her performance was director Melvin Frank , who proceeded to cast her in the romantic comedy A Touch of Class (1973), co-starring George Segal .

The two stars had a chemistry which brought out the best in each other, and the film was not only a major hit in both the United States and Great Britian, but won her a second Academy Award. She continued to impress by refusing obvious commercial roles and seeking out serious artistic work. She gave strong performances in The Romantic Englishwoman (1975) and The Incredible Sarah (1976), in which she portrayed the legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt . However, some of her films didn't register with the public, like The Triple Echo (1972), The Maids (1975), and Nasty Habits (1977). In addition, her marriage fell apart in 1976. But her career remained at the top and in 1978 she was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire. That year, she made a comeback in the comedy House Calls (1978), co-starring Walter Matthau . The success of this film which led to a popular television spin-off in the United States the following year.

In 1979, she and Segal re-teamed in Lost and Found (1979), but they were unable to overcome the routine script. She again co-starred with Oliver Reed in The Class of Miss MacMichael (1978), but the film was another disappointment. During the 1980s, she appeared in Hopscotch (1980) also co-starring Walter Matthau , and HealtH (1980) with Lauren Bacall , with disappointing results, although Jackson herself was never blamed. Her performance in the TV biography Sakharov (1984), in which she played Yelena Bonner , devoted wife of imprisoned Russian nuclear scientist Andrei Sakharov opposite Jason Robards , won rave reviews. However, the next film Turtle Diary (1985), was only a modest success, and the ensemble comedy Beyond Therapy (1987) was a critical and box office disaster and Jackson herself got some of the worst reviews of her career. As the 1980s ended, Jackson continued to act, but became more focused on public affairs. She grew up in a household that was staunchly supportive of the Labour Party.

She had disliked the policies of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , even though she admired some of her personal attributes, and strongly disapproved of Thatcher's successor, John Major . She was unhappy with the direction of British government policies, and in 1992 ran for Parliament. Although running in an area (Hampstead and Highgate) which was not heavily supportive of her party, she won by a slim margin and immediately became its most famous newly elective member. However, those who expected that she would rest on her laurels and fame were mistaken. She immediately took an interest in transportation issues, and in 1997 was appointed Junior Transportation Minister by Prime Minister Tony Blair . However, she was critical of some of Blair's policies and is considered an intra-party opponent of Blair's moderate faction. She is considered a traditional Labour Party activist, but is not affiliated with the faction known as The Looney Left. In 2000, she ran for Mayor of London, but lost the Labour nomination to fellow MP Frank Dobson , an ally of Blair's, who then lost the election to an independent candidate, Ken Livingstone .

In 2005, she ran again and won the nomination, but lost to Livingstone, winning 38% of the vote. When Blair announced he would not seek reelection as Prime Minister in 2006, Jackson's name was mentioned as a possible successor, although she didn't encourage this speculation. - IMDb Mini Biography By: annynomous Spouse (1) (1958 - 26 January 1976) (divorced) (1 child) Trade Mark (2) Good diction and strong speaking voice. Trivia (26) Only British Member of Parliament to win an Oscar. She had her appendix removed in October of 1999. She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama. She was hospitalized after breaking her wrist and hip in a fall on the way to give a speech on March 22, 2002. She was able to give most of her speech before the pain forced her to go to the hospital. Named after actress Glenda Farrell .

In The Rainbow (1989) she plays the mother of the character she had played twenty years earlier in Women in Love (1969) . Retired from acting in 1992 to run for Parliament in the Labour Party. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State responsible for London Transport from 1997 to 1999. Has a theatre named after her. She was awarded the 1984 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actress for her best performance in Strange Interlude. An Associate Member of RADA.

Has been nominated for Broadway's Tony Award four times: as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic), in 1966 for portraying Charlotte Corday in Peter Weiss ' "Marat/Sade," a performance recreated in the film version of the same title, Marat/Sade (1967); and, as Best Actress (Play): in 1981 for "Rose;" in 1985 for playing Nina Leeds in a revival of Eugene O'Neill 's "Strange Interlude," a role she recreated in a television version of the same title, American Playhouse: Strange Interlude (1988); and in 1988 for playing Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's "Macbeth." She has yet to win. She learned her craft (in part, at least) as a member of the Dundee Repertory Company in the early 1960s alongside Edward Fox , Michael Culver and Nicol Williamson . She was not present to receive either of her Oscars. Prior to military service, her father worked as a bricklayer. Member of Parliament representing the Hampstead and Highgate constituency in north London from 1992 to 2010.

She played Queen Elizabeth I in both Elizabeth R (1971) and Mary, Queen of Scots (1971). Gave birth to her only child at age 32, a son Daniel Pearce Jackson Hodges (political blogger Dan Hodges ) in March 1969. Child's father is her now ex-husband, Roy Hodges. The first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress for a role in which she appeared significantly 'nude' (Women in Love, 1969). She's the only actor to receive an Oscar nomination for an adaptation of a Henrik Ibsen play ( Hedda (1975)). Member of Parliament representing the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in north London from 2010 to 2015. Is one of 14 Best Actress Oscar winners to have not accepted their Academy Award in person. Jackson was not present to accept either win (for Women in Love (1969) or A Touch of Class (1973)).

The others are Katharine Hepburn , Claudette Colbert , Joan Crawford , Judy Holliday , Vivien Leigh , Anna Magnani , Ingrid Bergman , Sophia Loren , Anne Bancroft , Patricia Neal , Elizabeth Taylor , Maggie Smith and Ellen Burstyn . Along with Vivien Leigh , she is one of only two British actresses to have won an Academy Award on two occasions: Leigh won Best Actress for Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) while Jackson won Best Actress for Women in Love (1969) and A Touch of Class (1973). Although Elizabeth Taylor - who won Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 (1960) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - was born in London, her parents were American and she was raised in the United States from the age of three. Is one of 14 actresses to have won both the Best Actress Academy Award and the Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe for the same performance; hers being for A Touch of Class (1973).

The others, in chronological order, are: Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday (1950), Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins (1964), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Cher for Moonstruck (1987), 'Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Helen Hunt for As Good as It Gets (1997), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose (2007), and Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook (2012). Born on the same day as Albert Finney . Personal Quotes (31) I had no real ambition about acting. But I knew there had to be something better than the bloody chemist's shop. [on her Oscars] My mother polishes them to within an inch of their lives until the metal shows.

That sums up the Academy Awards - all glitter on the outside and base metal coming through. Nice presents for a day. But they don't make you any better. If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem. An actor can do "Hamlet" right through to "Lear", men of every age and every step of spiritual development. Where's the equivalent for women? I don't fancy hanging around to play Nurse in "Romeo and Juliet". Life's too short. [speaking in 1974] Ideally, one would love to work in England. But if no one in England is going to take their courage in both hands and dig into their pockets and finance films - then, you're going to have to work abroad. I was the archetypal spotty teenager who suffered the tortures of the damned because I wasn't like those girls in the magazines. I had lank, greasy hair and I was fat and spotty. If anyone thinks I looked sexy stripped in The Music Lovers (1970) they must think Minnie Mouse is sexy. [on acting] You'd think it's something one would grow out of. But you grow into it.

The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy it is to be lousy and how very difficult to be good. Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward. You see women in America who've had facelifts - faces as smooth as melons. It makes my stomach turn to think about voluntarily putting myself under a surgeon's knife. One of the most depressing remarks that was made when I first came to the House of Commons was made by an MP who said, "What d'you want to come here for? You're famous already". [on acting] When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life. If all the star system can offer its talent is the crap it does, then producers should pay through the eyes, ears, nose, mouth - any orifice you can think of. Why put make-up on when you only have to take it off again? I used to empty ashtrays for the cigarette butts, re-roll them and make myself a fag. I used to live on a pound of sausages and a cooking apple.

I was five months pregnant when I made that nude scene in Women in Love (1969). I'd never had such a marvelous bosom. [upon learning of her unexpected second Oscar victory in 1974] I was working but I doubt that I would have been there even if I hadn't been. Watching it on television here in my hotel suite, I kept telling myself that I ought to turn it off and go to bed. I felt disgusted with myself--as though I were attending a public hanging . . . No one should have a chance to see so much desire, so much need for a prize, and so much pain when it was not given. Funny things do happen, though. "Harper's" wanted to include me in their gallery of "Most Beautiful Women". That was hilarious. It was all a terrible mistake, of course. I wound up on a separate page as "a stern young beauty bursting upon London". Stern, you see. Not that I'm really tough. [on Hollywood] One has to have a reason for going there. If you have a job there, it's like a passport or a visa, and you can always get out.

But I should think to be stuck there all the time you'd go mad. On work: I knew early on that I'd have to work, work, work if I was wanted to amount to much; plums don't drop into plain girls' laps. [Observation, 1970] It's ridiculous when you think how hard I'm working right now, when for so many years nobody even knew I existed.But I don't want to wake up one morning and find myself stuck in the hermetically sealed, centrally heated, showbiz world which can destroy you. I wouldn't like to think that I couldn't go to the launderette when I felt like it. I was never part of the glitzy, glamoury, showbizzy part of the entertainment world. I don't think I could ever have been. It wouldn't have interested me and, you know... I wouldn't have been any good at it. [on gender roles in theatrical plays] There was the male and female lead, the male and female juvenile lead, and the male and female character lead, and the male and female juvenile character lead, and if you didn't fit into any of those boxes then you didn't work.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant. My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man. I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious. At a meeting you might present an idea and it will be listened to and someone will say, 'Oh yes, that's fine.' Ten minutes later a man down the table will produce the same idea, but possibly reworked in its presentation, and there will be unanimous acceptance of what a good idea it was. Also you will be talked over, that's the other thing, you sort of become invisible, and if you protest this, you are deemed to be some form of extreme harridan. One has to begin to take all the work and redirect it into a way in which the problem is actually solved, not merely managed. [on Margaret Thatcher ] The first Prime Minister of female gender, OK. But a woman? Not on my terms. I was meticulous in not being personally rude. I didn't know the woman: I did know the policies.

I spoke up because history has been rewritten over the past week. I lived through the Thatcher period. I know what it was like. I know what it was like for my constituents. The reality bore no resemblance to what's being presented. [on Oliver Reed , in a 1994 interview]: Oliver and I have absolutely nothing to say to each other off-screen. As people, we are chalk and cheese. What I admire in Oliver is his consummate professionalism. It doesn't matter what state he may be in physically, when they say "Action!", he is ready, and that was the aspect of working with him that I liked. I've worked with him a lot and he is an infinitely better actor than he gives himself credit for. Salary (3) Oscars' best actresses of all time - CNN.com Oscars' best actresses of all time By Lisa Respers France, CNN Updated 3:10 PM ET, Fri February 28, 2014 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Brie Larson accepts the best actress award at the 88th annual Academy Awards on February 28, 2016.

Larson won for her role in "Room." Here are all the other actresses who have captured the prize over the years: Hide Caption 1 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Janet Gaynor (1929) – Douglas Fairbanks Sr. hands Janet Gaynor her best actress Oscar in 1929 for Gaynor's performance in the 1927 film ''Sunrise." It was the first best actress Oscar ever awarded. Hide Caption 2 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Mary Pickford (1930) – In 1930, there were actually two Oscar ceremonies. Actress Mary Pickford, seen here, receives her best actress Oscar in April 1930 for her performance in the 1929 film "Coquette." Hide Caption 3 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Norma Shearer (1930) – Norma Shearer receives a best actress Oscar in October 1930 for her role in "The Divorcee." Giving her the award is Conrad Nagel, who starred with her in the film released earlier that year.

Hide Caption 4 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Marie Dressler (1931) – Marie Dressler and Lionel Barrymore collect their best actress and best actor Oscars in 1931. Dressler won for "Min and Bill" and Barrymore won for "A Free Soul." Hide Caption 5 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Helen Hayes (1932) – Film producer Louis B. Mayer presents the best actress Oscar to Helen Hayes for her role in "The Sin of Madelon Claudet." Hide Caption 6 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Katharine Hepburn (1934) – Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Katharine Hepburn appear in the 1933 film "Morning Glory." Hepburn's performance earned her the best actress Oscar in 1934. There was no Academy Awards ceremony in 1933; films from that year and the last half of 1932 were eligible to win at the 1934 ceremony.

Hide Caption 7 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Claudette Colbert (1935) – Claudette Colbert won the best actress Oscar in 1935 for "It Happened One Night," a film that was the first to win all five of the major Academy Award categories -- best picture, best director, best actor, best actress and best screenplay. Hide Caption 8 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Bette Davis (1936) – Bette Davis and film producer Jack L. Warner hold Davis' best actress Oscar at the ceremony held in 1936. Davis won her first Oscar for her role in the film "Dangerous." Hide Caption 9 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Luise Rainer (1937) – Luise Rainer, second from left, is seen at the 1937 ceremony with, from left, Louis B. Mayer, Louise Tracy and Frank Capra.

Rainer won for "The Great Ziegfeld." Hide Caption 10 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Luise Rainer (1938) – For her performance in "The Good Earth," Luise Rainer won the best actress Oscar for the second consecutive year. Hide Caption Bette Davis (1939) – Bette Davis won her second Oscar in 1939, this time for "Jezebel." Hide Caption 12 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Vivien Leigh (1940) – Vivien Leigh accepts her Oscar in 1940 for her performance in "Gone With the Wind." Hide Caption 13 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Ginger Rogers (1941) – Actors James Stewart and Ginger Rogers smile after winning Oscars in 1941.

Stewart won best actor for his performance in "The Philadelphia Story," while Rogers won best actress for her performance in "Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman." Hide Caption 14 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Joan Fontaine (1942) – Joan Fontaine looks at the best actress Oscar she won for her role in the film "Suspicion." Hide Caption 15 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Greer Garson (1943) – After winning the best actress Oscar in 1943, Greer Garson gets a congratulatory kiss from her "Mrs. Miniver" co-star Walter Pidgeon. Hide Caption 16 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Jennifer Jones (1944) – Jennifer Jones holds the best actress Oscar she won in 1944 for her performance in "Song of Bernadette." To her right is actress Ingrid Bergman. Hide Caption 17 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Ingrid Bergman (1945) – Ingrid Bergman didn't have to wait long to hold her own best actress award.

Here, she poses with the Oscar she earned for her role in the film "Gaslight." Hide Caption 18 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Joan Crawford (1946) – Joan Crawford receives her Academy Award in bed because of an illness. She was recognized for her performance in the 1945 film "Mildred Pierce." Hide Caption 19 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Olivia de Havilland (1947) – Olivia de Havilland receives her best actress Oscar from actor Ray Milland for her performance in "To Each His Own." Hide Caption 20 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Loretta Young (1948) – Loretta Young, second from left, won the best actress Oscar in 1948 for her role in "Farmer's Daughter." Hide Caption 21 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Jane Wyman (1949) – Jane Wyman stands by a doorway backstage at the Academy Awards.

She won her best actress Oscar for the film "Johnny Belinda." Hide Caption 22 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Olivia de Havilland (1950) – Olivia de Havilland looks at her two best actress Oscars. She won her second in 1950 for her role in "The Heiress." Hide Caption 23 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Judy Holliday (1951) – Judy Holliday bursts into tears in 1951 after winning the best actress Oscar for her performance in "Born Yesterday." Hide Caption 24 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Vivien Leigh (1952) – Vivien Leigh appears with Karl Malden in "A Streetcar Named Desire." Her performance in the film earned her a second Oscar. Hide Caption 25 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Shirley Booth (1953) – Shirley Booth wins the best actress Oscar for "Come Back, Little Sheba" in 1953.

Hide Caption 26 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Audrey Hepburn (1954) – Audrey Hepburn is surrounded by reporters as she holds her best actress Oscar for "Roman Holiday." Hide Caption 27 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Grace Kelly (1955) – Grace Kelly poses with her Oscar after the Academy Awards ceremony in 1955. She won the statuette for her role in "The Country Girl." Hide Caption 28 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Anna Magnani (1956) – Anna Magnani enthusiastically holds the Oscar she won for "Rose Tattoo." The award was presented to her by U.S. Ambassador Clare Luce at the Villa Taverna in Rome. Hide Caption 29 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Ingrid Bergman (1957) – Ingrid Bergman, right, appears with Helen Hayes in a scene from the movie "Anastasia." Her performance earned her a second Oscar for best actress.

Hide Caption 30 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Joanne Woodward (1958) – Joanne Woodward smiles while holding her best actress Oscar (and a cigarette). She received the award for her role in the film "Three Faces of Eve." Hide Caption 31 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Susan Hayward (1959) – From left, actor Burl Ives, actress Susan Hayward and actor David Niven pose with their Oscars in 1959.

Hayward won for her role in "I Want to Live!" Hide Caption 32 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Simone Signoret (1960) – Actress Simone Signoret, seen here next to actor Rock Hudson at the Academy Awards ceremony in 1960, won the best actress Oscar for her role in "Room at the Top." Hide Caption 33 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Elizabeth Taylor (1961) – Elizabeth Taylor is seen with her Oscar after being named best actress for her part in "Butterfield 8." Hide Caption Sophia Loren (1962) – Sophia Loren reacts after winning best actress for the film "La Ciociara." Hide Caption 35 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Anne Bancroft (1963) – Anne Bancroft cries in her New York apartment as she accepts a congratulatory phone call following her win for "The Miracle Worker." Hide Caption 36 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Patricia Neal (1964) – Patricia Neal and her three children look at her Oscar statuette, which she won in 1964 for her role in "

Hud." Hide Caption 37 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Julie Andrews (1965) – Julie Andrews looks at the Academy Award she won for "Mary Poppins'" in 1965.

The role was her film debut. Hide Caption 38 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Julie Christie (1966) – Julie Christie is seen with her Academy Award, which she won for her role in "Darling." Hide Caption 39 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Elizabeth Taylor (1967) – Elizabeth Taylor holds up her second Oscar, this one for the film "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf." Hide Caption 40 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Katharine Hepburn (1968) – Katharine Hepburn and Cecil Kellaway appear in a scene from "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." Hepburn won her second Oscar more than 30 years after her first. Hide Caption 41 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Barbra Streisand (1969) – Barbra Streisand gazes at the best actress statuette she won for "Funny Girl." There was a tie for the award in 1969, with the other winner being Katharine Hepburn.

Hide Caption 42 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Katharine Hepburn (1969) – Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole appear in "The Lion in Winter." The film earned Hepburn her third Oscar for best actress. Hide Caption 43 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Maggie Smith (1970) – Maggie Smith, who won for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," celebrates with her husband at the time, Robert Stephens. Hide Caption 44 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Glenda Jackson (1971) – Glenda Jackson won the best actress Oscar for her part in "Women In Love." Hide Caption Liza Minnelli (1973) – Liza Minnelli holds the Oscar she won for "Cabaret." Hide Caption 47 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Glenda Jackson (1974) – George Segal and Glenda Jackson appear in a scene from "A Touch of Class," which snagged Jackson the best actress Oscar in 1974.

Hide Caption 48 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Ellen Burstyn (1975) – Ellen Burstyn, left, appears in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," which won her the best actress Oscar in 1975. Hide Caption 49 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Louise Fletcher (1976) – From left, producer Saul Zaentz, actor Jack Nicholson, actress Louise Fletcher and producer Michael Douglas pose with their Oscars at the 1976 Academy Awards ceremony. They all won for the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," which swept the major categories that year. Hide Caption 50 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Faye Dunaway (1977) – Faye Dunaway rests by the Beverly Hills Hotel swimming pool the morning after she received the best actress Oscar for "Network." Hide Caption 51 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Diane Keaton (1978) – Diane Keaton places her Oscar on a restaurant table after the Academy Awards ceremony in 1978.

She received the award for her role in "Annie Hall." Hide Caption 52 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Jane Fonda (1979) – Jane Fonda is ecstatic about winning her second Academy Award, this one for "Coming Home." Hide Caption Cher (1988) – Cher wears that dress in 1988, when she won the Academy Award for "Moonstruck." Hide Caption 62 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Jodie Foster (1989) – Jodie Foster holds her Oscar in the press room after winning for her role in "The Accused." Hide Caption 63 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Jessica Tandy (1990) – Jessica Tandy acknowledges applause after receiving the Oscar for her role in "Driving Miss Daisy." Hide Caption 64 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Kathy Bates (1991) – Kathy Bates, far left, clutches the best actress award for her role in "Misery." To her left are fellow Oscar winners Jeremy Irons, Whoopi Goldberg and Joe Pesci.

Hide Caption 65 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Jodie Foster (1992) – Jodie Foster holds up her second Oscar, this one for her role in "The Silence of the Lambs." Hide Caption 66 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Emma Thompson (1993) – Emma Thompson poses with her Oscar after winning best actress for her role in "Howards End." Hide Caption 67 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Holly Hunter (1994) – Holly Hunter poses in the press room after being awarded the best actress Oscar for her performance in "The Piano." Hide Caption 68 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Jessica Lange (1995) – Jessica Lange holds the Oscar she won for her role in the film "Blue Sky." Hide Caption Charlize Theron (2004) – Charlize Theron poses with her Oscar after winning for the film "Monster." Hide Caption 78 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Hilary Swank (2005) – Hilary Swank grabbed her second Academy Award in 2005 for the film "Million Dollar Baby

." Hide Caption 79 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Reese Witherspoon (2006) – Reese Witherspoon kisses then-husband Ryan Phillippe before going on stage to accept the best actress award for "Walk the Line." Hide Caption 80 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Helen Mirren (2007) – Director Taylor Hackford kisses his wife, Helen Mirren, after Mirren won the best actress Oscar for her role in "The Queen." Hide Caption Kate Winslet (2009) – Kate Winslet reacts after winning the best actress Oscar for "The Reader." Hide Caption 83 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Sandra Bullock (2010) – Best actress Sandra Bullock gives her acceptance speech after winning for "The Blind Side." Hide Caption 84 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Natalie Portman (2011) – Natalie Portman poses in the press room after winning the best actress Oscar for "Black Swan." Hide Caption 85 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Meryl Streep (2012) – Meryl Streep, right, laughs with Sandra

 Bullock after Streep's win for her role in "The Iron Lady." Hide Caption 86 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Jennifer Lawrence (2013) – Jennifer Lawrence charms the audience in 2013 as she accepts the best actress Oscar for her performance in "Silver Linings Playbook." Hide Caption 87 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Cate Blanchett (2014) – Cate Blanchett won an Oscar in 2014 for her turn as a modern-day Blanche DuBois in the Woody Allen film "Blue Jasmine." Hide Caption 88 of 89 Photos: Oscar-winning best actresses Matthew McConaughey presents Julianne Moore with the Oscar for best actress at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015.

She won for her role in "Still Alice." Hide Caption Glenda Jackson: 2-Time Best Actress Oscar Winner, Former MP Comeback Glenda Jackson: Actress and former Labour MP. Two-time Oscar winner and former Labour MP Glenda Jackson returns to acting Two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson set aside her acting career after becoming a Labour Party MP in 1992. Four years ago, Jackson, who represented the Greater London constituency of Hampstead and Highgate, announced that she would stand down the 2015 general election – which, somewhat controversially, was won by right-wing prime minister David Cameron's Conservative party. [1] The silver lining: following a two-decade-plus break, Glenda Jackson is returning to acting. Now, Jackson isn't – for the time being – returning to acting in front of the camera.

The 79-year-old is to be featured in the Radio 4 series Emile Zola: Blood, Sex and Money, described on their website as a “mash-up” adaptation of 20 Emile Zola novels collectively known as “Les Rougon-Macquart.” [2] Part 1 of the three-part Radio 4 series will be broadcast daily during an “intensive and addictive week” beginning on Saturday, Nov. 21. The two other week-long installments will follow at six-month intervals. 'Emile Zola: Blood, Sex and Money' Emile Zola: Blood, Sex and Money is thus described on the BBC / Radio 4 site: … [It's] a multi-stranded immersive experience that draws us into 19th century France and the tragic, farcical reign of Napoleon III, as it marches forward towards a modern, industrialised society. The ride will be pacey, challenging, exciting. Zola's work shocked our great-great-grandparents and he will shock us again. Emile Zola is arguably literature's greatest whistleblower.

He tells the truth about the society he sees around him, taking a sharp look at organisations, professions and people in power, regardless of whom he offends and whose interests he crosses. This is an unflinching portrait of society, the frankness and fury of which is still relevant to contemporary Britain. Indeed, if Emile Zola were around today – whether in France, the U.K., or elsewhere – in all likelihood he'd be either in prison, in hiding, or under the careful watch of government agencies. [3] 104-year-old Adelaide Fouque In Emile Zola: Blood, Sex and Money, Glenda Jackson will play 104-year-old, nursing-home-bound Adelaide Fouque a.k.a. Tante Dide (Aunt Dide), who, decades earlier, “gave birth to two dynasties that dominated French society: one rich, powerful, obsessive and corrupt; the other poor, vulnerable, weak and depraved.” These colorful folks are the Rougons and the Macquarts. The drama takes place inside Fouque's mind, as she ponders, “What did I bring into this world? Wolves… I have raised a family of Wolves… I have watched their years.

I will tell their story. Crime by crime. Blood by blood.” Glenda Jackson to play an Emile Zola character for Radio 4. Pictured with Ashley Margolis, Fenella Woolgar and Robert Lindsay. Glenda Jackson's Emile Zola: Blood, Sex and Money co-stars are: Robert Lindsay (Grace of Monaco). BAFTA TV Award winner Georgina Campbell (Murdered by My Boyfriend). Fenella Woolgar (Mr. Turner). Ian Hart (Professor Quirinus Quirrell in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone). Ashley Margolis (the TV show Hollyoaks). Glenda Jackson and the future But besides Emile Zola and Radio 4, what else does the future hold for the former Labour MP? “Will you stop trying to get me to decide what the future holds,” she recently snapped at Ham&High 's Tim Lamden. “I don't know! I keep saying to people, 'I'll sit down and take a deep breath.' I haven't been in a position where I haven't been working for more than 60 years.” Even so, a return to either the stage or the screen – or both – remains a possibility.

“It would depend on what it was,” she told Lamden. “But I don't think you can necessarily go back.” Perhaps as long as the offer doesn't involve her playing some Meryl Streep admirer in a sequel to The Iron Lady, there's a chance. After all, regarding her entry into politics, Jackson explained to Lamden, “Anything that I could have done that was legal to get rid of Margaret Thatcher and her government I was prepared to do.” That was when the then former actress defeated Tory candidate Oliver Letwin – ironically, as Lamden remarks, “now one of David Cameron's closest allies in government.” In case you're wondering, Jackson's favorite actors are fellow two-time Oscar winner Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront, The Godfather) and one-time Oscar winner Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons). The former sent her a note of congratulations at the time she beat Letwin for the Hampstead and Highgate seat.

Glenda Jackson movies Back in her day, Glenda Jackson was the sort of actress – whether at her most subtle or at her most ostentatious – who would have made the dinosaurs in Jurassic World, Arnold Schwarzenegger and his fellow weapon-toting Terminator Genisys cast members, and all the superheroes (and supervillains) in The Avengers: Age of Ultron cower in awe. She won her two Best Actress Academy Awards for the following: Women in Love (1969). Cast: Alan Bates . Oliver Reed . Glenda Jackson. Jennie Linden. Eleanor Bron. Alan Webb. A Touch of Class (1973). Dir.: Melvin Frank. Cast: Glenda Jackson. George Segal . Paul Sorvino. K Callan. The former was an artistically daring critical – and to some extent commercial (thanks to some man-on-man nude wrestling) – sensation. The latter was a disappointingly bland mainstream effort, and, unsurprisingly, a major box office hit. In addition, Jackson received two other Best Actress Oscar nominations. Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971). The Patricia Neal Story (1981, TV). Dir.: Anthony Harvey. Anthony Page.

Cast: Glenda Jackson (as Patricia Neal). Dirk Bogarde (as Roald Dahl). Ken Kercheval. Jane Merrow. John Reilly. Mildred Dunnock. Sydney Penny. Christopher Murray. James Hayden (as Martin Sheen). Cameos: Patricia Neal. Rock Hudson . Salome's Last Dance (1988). Dir.: Ken Russell. Cast: Glenda Jackson (delightfully chewing on the scenery in a supporting role). Stratford Johns. Imogen Millais-Scott. Nickolas Grace. Douglas Hodge. Denis Lill. Russell Lee Nash. Ken Russell (billed as Alfred Russell). David Doyle. Warren Saire. King of the Wind (1990). Dir.: Peter Duffell. Cast: Richard Harris . Glenda Jackson (her last film role to date). Frank Finlay. Jenny Agutter. Nigel Hawthorne. Navin Chowdhry. Anthony Quayle. Peter Vaughan. Ian Richardson. Neil Dickson. Barry Foster. Ralph Bates. Jill Gascoine. Joan Hickson.

Besides her Academy Award wins and nominations, Glenda Jackson was shortlisted for the following: Eight Golden Globes, winning one (A Touch of Class). Four Emmys, winning two – both for her performance as Elizabeth I in the 1971 miniseries Elizabeth R. (Curiously, the same year she played the Virgin Queen in Mary, Queen of Scots on the big screen.) Five BAFTAs (film and TV), winning one (Sunday Bloody Sunday). Two David di Donatello Awards, co-winning both times (Mary, Queen of Scots, shared with Vanessa Redgrave; Hedda, shared with Isabelle Adjani for The Story of Adele H). Other Glenda Jackson award wins include: Montreal World Film Festival (Stevie). National Board of Review (Women in Love, Stevie).* National Society of Film Critics (Women in Love). New York Film Critics Circle (Women in Love, Stevie).* San Sebastián Film Festival (A Touch of Class, tied with Françoise Fabian for Happy New Year). * Stevie played briefly in Los Angeles for Academy Award consideration in 1978, but it would reach New York City screens only in 1981.

Iris Murdoch on Radio 4 As an aside: in other Radio 4 news, in August Jeremy Irons will star as theater director Charles Arrowby in a two-part adaptation of Iris Murdoch's Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, The Sea. Additionally, Helen McCrory will play Murdoch in a presentation of Robin Brooks' Murdoch's Dream. Judi Dench received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of the older Iris Murdoch in Richard Eyre's 2001 drama Iris, also featuring Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner Jim Broadbent (as John Bayley) and Best Supporting Actress nominee Kate Winslet (as the youthful Iris). Glenda Jackson in 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' trailer, with Peter Finch and Murray Head. 'Glenda Jackson Returning to Acting' notes [1] As a result of redistricting, in 2010 Hampstead and Highgate became the reformatted constituency of Hampstead and Kilburn. That year, Glenda Jackson won the general election with a mere 42 votes ahead of the runner-up candidate. But, however marginally, Hampstead and Kilburn has remained a Labour constituency. This year's winner was Tulip Siddiq.

[2] The “Les Rougon-Macquart” literary series, published between 1871 and 1893, includes many of the best-known Emile Zola novels. Among them: Nana (1880). On film, Nana was played by the likes of Catherine Hessling (1926, for husband-director Jean Renoir ), Anna Sten (1934, with great fanfare for producer Samuel Goldwyn and directors Dorothy Arzner and George Fitzmaurice ), and Martine Carol (1955, for director Christian-Jaque), among others. Pot-Bouille (1882). In 1957, Julien Duvivier directed the film version (a.k.a. Lovers of Paris), starring Gérard Philipe, Dany Carrel, and Anouk Aimée . Au Bonheur des Dames (1883). Julien Duvivier directed the 1930 film version, starring Dita Parlo. Germinal (1885). Yves Allégret directed the 1963 version featuring Jean Sorel.

Three decades later, Claude Berri directed Gérard Depardieu and Miou-Miou. La Bête Humaine (1890). Jean Renoir's updated 1938 film version starred Jean Gabin , Simone Simon , and Fernand Ledoux. Fritz Lang's failed 1954 Hollywood remake, Human Desire, starred Glenn Ford , Gloria Grahame , and Broderick Crawford. L'Argent (1891). Marcel L'Herbier 's classic 1928 adaptation featured Pierre Alcover, Marie Glory, and Brigitte Helm.* * Robert Bresson's L'Argent (1983) is actually based on a Leo Tolstoy story. [3] Emile Zola (1840–1902) has been the subject of several films, most notably William Dieterle 's Best Picture Academy Award winner The Life of Emile Zola (1937), about Zola's outrage over the unjust espionage conviction of Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus. In the Warner Bros.

release, Paul Muni starred as Zola, while Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner Joseph Schildkraut played Dreyfus.

Question: Glenda Jackson won Best Actress Oscar in 1971 for her role in 'Women In Love' and again in 1974 for a role in which film?
Answer: A TOUCH OF CLASS