Sad news, oscar-winning actress and former MP Glenda Jackson has died at the age of 87.
In a statement on Thursday, her agent Lionel Larner said: "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 at her side.Jackson got bitten by the acting bug after joining an amateur dramatics group as a teen while working in Boots near her tome town of Birkenhead in Merseyside.
She won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1963. After making her name on stage, she won her first Oscar for playing a headstrong artist in director Ken Russell's film of DH Lawrence's novel Women in Love. Her second Academy Award came three years later for A Touch of Class, a romantic comedy in which she played s fashion designer caught up in a catastrophic love affair with a US businessman."All awards are very nice to have," she told BBC Radio 4's This Cultural Life last year. "But they don't make you any better.""Devastated to hear that my predecessor Glenda Jackson has died.
"A formidable politician, an amazing actress and a very supportive mentor to me. Hampstead and Kilburn will miss you Glenda."
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