Glenda May Jackson, CBE, (born 9 May, 1936) is a two-time Academy Award-winning British actress and politician, currently Labour Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden.
<p>She was born in Birkenhead, The Wirral, Cheshire, across the River Mersey from Liverpool, into a working-class family, and once worked in a Boots pharmacy store.
<p>She has one son by her ex-husband, Roy Hodges.
<p>Having studied acting at RADA, Jackson made her professional stage debut in Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables in 1957, and her film debut in This Sporting Life in 1963. Subsequently a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, she worked for director Peter Brook in several productions, including of Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade as Charlotte Corday. Jackson also appeared in the film version.
<p>Fame came with Jackson's starring role in the controversial Women in Love (1969) for which she won her first Academy Award for Best Actress, and another controversial...
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