She was a ‘formidable’ force in film, on stage and at Westminster
Fearless, sharply intelligent and sometimes caustic, Glenda Jackson, who has died aged 87, “had a career unmatched by any of her contemporaries”, said Michael Billington in The Guardian. From 1957, she enjoyed huge success on film (she won two Oscars) and on stage; then, in 1992, she gave it all up to become a Labour MP. She served diligently, as a junior minister in the Blair government and on the backbenches, for 23 years before returning to the stage in 2016, aged 80, as a “magnificent Lear”.
