Glenda Jackson passed away at the age of 87 in her London home following “a brief illness.”
She is one of the few artists to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, having won two Academy Awards, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award.
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Cause of Death
Her agent, Lionel Larner, released the following statement: “Glenda Jackson, two-time Academy Award-winning actress and politician, died peacefully at her home in Blackheath, London, this morning after a brief illness with her family by her side.”
Net Worth
Glenda Jackson had an estimated net worth of $5 million before her death.
Age
Jackson was born in 1936 in Birkenhead, Merseyside, the first of four daughters to a bricklayer father and a cleaning mother. She was 87 years old at the time of her death
Career
Jackson role in Lindsay Anderson’s This Sporting Life had given her a brief screen debut. Two years later, her acting career really took off when she portrayed the abrasively sexual Gudrun in Ken Russell’s version of DH Lawrence’s novel Women in Love. She went on to win two Oscars for best actress, none of which she showed up to accept.
Even though she was outspoken about the paucity of positive roles for women, she found them well into her fifties, when she made the shocking choice to give it all up and run for office. She abandoned her prior fame from the time she was elected in 1992 until she resigned in 2015, dedicating herself to serving as a Labor MP for the London neighborhoods of Hampstead and Kilburn.
Following her triumphant return to the stage as King Lear, she won another prize for her portrayals of the stumbling, vituperative 92-year-old widow A in a Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women and Maud, the protagonist of Elizabeth Is Missing who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
In her later years, she gave up her north London stronghold in favour of a basement apartment in her son Dan Hodges’ south London home. Dan Hodges, who was then a political columnist, held views that were distinctly at odds with her own. In this apartment, she gardened, watched her grandson grow up, and continued to pour the finest sort of scorn on any passing foolishness or hypocrisy.
Family and Relationship
Glenda Jackson got married to Roy Hodges. They were married from 1958 to 1976.
Glenda Jackson is survived by one child called Daniel Pearce Jackson Hodges.
