Rest in Peace, Ms. Jackson. A success in two very different careers, I'm sure that you were in inspiration to many and will be missed. Can't wait to see the movie she made with Sir Michael Caine.
I saw her on Broadway in her last appearances as Lady Macbeth. Now THAT could be called her greatest performance too!! She grabbed that role by the balls, the most amazing Lady Macbeth I've ever seen.
Brilliant actress. In Return of the Soldier opposite another great British actor Alan Bates, Glenda played a plain n dowdy country hsewife, yet her role outshone the two other charming actresses in the movie - the beautiful Julie Christie and American sweetheart Ann Margret. Powerful acting all round.
Christophe Pena It’s quite simple. Either don’t read my comments or mute me. Until that orange maggot rips up the First Amendment I’m still allowed free speech.
She completely did not do any professional acting on stage or screen from 1992 to 2015 when she was MP. Then in her second stage outing after a quarter of a century, she immediately wins an acting award. This is testament to her genius as an actor. Are Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Maggie Smith (all about a year and a half older then Glenda Jackson) somehow threatened by the return of an old rival (and colleague, of course)? Recalling, many of Judi Dench's Oscar wins and nominations were between 1992 and 2015 (Shakespeare in Love in 1998, Mrs. Brown in 1997, Isis in 2001, Chocolat in 2002) when Glenda Jackson focused full-time on public service as a politician and did not act at all. Maggie Smith rose to new fame with a new generation of audience with Harry Potter (2001-2011) and Downton Abbey (2010-2015) again when Glenda Jackson was absent from acting. Eileen Atkins's screen performances were all but minor before 1992 and only did the big parts again between 1992 and 2015 (Cranford in 2007, Upstairs Downstairs in 2010). So these three veterans and contemporaries of Glenda Jackson from way back in the early 1960s, rose to new fame and popularity with a younger generation of audience when Glenda Jackson was ABSENT from acting because she was MP. How would things change now?
Wow so that’s what it’s like for her to give an acceptance speech! That was good. I always wondered since she never picked up her two Oscars in person.
She doesn't have the voice for it but she is as down to earth as any actor or actress I know, she has a way of cutting through the bullshit of showbusiness.
... and made a 'comeback' with King Lear! We were very lucky in Glasgow to see her final performances before she embarked upon a political career - Mother Courage at the great Citizen Theatre. She was, as you might imagine, extraordinary. I'm so glad she's come back to the stage.
She stood down from her constituency seat in the 2015 general election. The reason for this may attributed to age. She was 79 in 2015. The other reason may be due to electoral uncertainty. In the 2010 general election she won only by a very slim margin over her Conservative challenger. By less than a hundred votes, I think. Maybe she thought it was time for someone younger to take over who could be a fresh face for the constituents. I think Labour won her seat again in the 2015 general election.
Tulip Sadiq won the for Labour in the two subsequent elections after Glenda. Also the Labour Party has been falling apart, as had British politics, for a long time before she decided to step down and if you see her Margaret Thatcher speech in the house of commons, she was well and truly disenchanted by the experience. Blair's decision to invade Iraq disappointed most of us on the left of the Party. I wonder what she makes of Jeremy Corbyn's successes as leader of the Party?
glenda jackson left a successful acting career to become a political leader and champion for millions in the UK who were suffering under thatcher's dictatorship. i'd call that the essence of being a good person through and through....
@@justinpaulson1985 I didn't bring up politics but since you did, let's not forget the fact that she won three general elections and the last two were landslide victories. That's called 'democracy', mate. It's not a dictatorship.
@@ppuh6tfrz646 ohh! a thatcherite! why didn't you say so? at least now i KNOW why you're leaving random comments like "she's 'cold' and 'hard to like'" about a woman you don't know haha
@@justinpaulson1985 If anybody is making a random (and baseless) comment here, it's you because I'm certainly not a Thatcherite. And you're the one who brought politics into this, not me. I was referring to Jackson's personality and her manner. The point I was making (which you clearly failed to understand) in response to your irrelevant remark is that Thatcher's policies could not have been universally unpopular if she won 3 general elections. We live in a democracy and the UK electorate had a choice and they chose Thatcher every time. Or are you going to suggest that those elections were rigged and we should maybe have a January 6th-like insurrection and storm the Houses of Parliament?
