Glenda Jackson's biography

According to year of birth 1936 she belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 9th of May means she is Taurus. Taurus is most stable sign of Zodiac, that is the reason it is also included in the earthy sign of the Zodiac Belt. One born with this Moon Sign (Not a Rising Sign) is very stable and balanced through their mind.

She is native english speaker. She is citizen of United Kingdom. Her primary profession is to be politician. You can know her also as film actor, stage actor. She is recently known as actor.

Glenda Jackson's schools

We found 2 schools She attended. Complete list of schools: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, West Kirby Grammar School.

Glenda Jackson's career

She is also a member of Royal Shakespeare Company.

Awards and competitions

Glenda Jackson's Awards

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 awarded the 1984 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actress for her best performance in Strange Interlude.
The first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress for a role in which she appeared significantly 'nude' (Women in Love, 1969).
One of the nominees for a 1980 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her performance in 'Rose' but lost out to Frances de la Tour.
Won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in "Three Tall Women".
Nominated for Best Actress, for Elizabeth is Missing, Broadcasting Press Guilds Awards 2020.
Won Broadcasting Press Guilds Award 2020 for Best Actress in 'Elizabeth is Missing'.

Glenda Jackson's Nominations

She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work Sunday, Bloody Sunday in 1971
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress

What Glenda Jackson has done for a first time

The first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress for a role in which she appeared significantly 'nude' (Women in Love, 1969).

Glenda Jackson's quotes

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 (1971) 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.
[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 wanted to amount to much; plums don't drop into plain girls' laps.
I was never part of the glitzy, glamory, show-bizzy 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.
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.
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.
Acting is always hard. Why else would you bother to do it?
I do wonder why contemporary dramatists find female characters so uninteresting, why we are never or rarely ever the driving force of anything
A theater is a theatre is a theatre. It's a dark space which strangers fill, and you're in the light. Hopefully, something from the light goes into the dark, and the dark increases that and sends it back, and you create this perfect circle.
I was quite happy when I got the second Oscar. Now my mum has a proper set of bookends.
[on Ken Russell] I enjoy working with him. He doesn't know anything about acting, and he leaves you alone.

Glenda Jackson's body shape

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Glenda Jackson