The only MP to win an entire trophy-cabinet’s worth of prestigious film awards, including two Academy Awards and a BAFTA, Glenda Jackson was never one for going along with “the rules”.
From playing sexually empowered female characters at a time when women were widely portrayed as unassuming and submissive eye-flutterers, to famously turning down the role of M to Pierce Brosnan’s Bond because it was “boring”, Jackson determinedly defied expectations.
