Glenda Jackson: a life in pictures

Glenda Jackson was born in Birkenhead in 1936. After working in Boots for two years, she took up a scholarship to Rada in 1954. Here she is in September 1964, just after she had joined the Royal Shakespeare Company

Jackson stayed with the RSC for four years. Here she is on 17 August 1965 rehearsing the part of Ophelia with David Warner, who played Hamlet, and director Peter Hall

Jackson in 1967

Jackson, Avril Elgar and Marianne Faithfull starred in Chekhov’s The Three Sisters at the Royal Court, London, in 1967

Jackson appeared opposite Oliver Reed in Women in Love, Ken Russell’s 1969 film adaptation of the DH Lawrence novel. Her performance won her an Academy award

Jackson with her husband, Roy Hodges, in London in 1971. They were married from 1958 until their divorce in 1976, and had one son

Jackson with her Oscar for Women in Love in 1971. She was unable to attend the ceremony in Los Angeles as she was filming Mary, Queen of Scots, so the award was presented to her in the UK

Jackson in Elizabeth R, a 1971 BBC drama series, for which she won a Primetime Emmy for best actress and a Bafta nomination

Jackson, right, as Queen Elizabeth I, with Vanessa Redgrave in the 1971 film Mary, Queen of Scots. She was nominated for a best actress Golden Globe for her performance

As Queen Elizabeth I during the filming of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1971

Jackson with co-star Murray Head and screen family in the 1971 film Sunday Bloody Sunday. She won a best actress Bafta and was nominated for an Academy award for her performance

Jackson as Cleopatra, with comedians Ernie Wise as Mark Anthony and Eric Morecambe as Octavian Caesar, in a sketch for the BBC’s Morecambe and Wise Show in 1971

Jackson was politically active from a young age. Here she is in 1973 with Malcolm McDowell, Lindsay Anderson, Michael Medwin and Albert Finney outside the Indonesian embassy in London protesting about the abuse of human rights

Jackson with co-star George Segal in the 1973 film A Touch of Class

Jackson during 1974 fashion shoot in 1974

She was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe for her role in Hedda, a 1975 film adaptation of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler

Jackson in 1975

Here she is as Sarah Bernhardt in The Incredible Sarah, 1976

Jackson played the poet Stevie Smith in the 1978 biographical film Stevie

Jackson circa 1980. She was awarded a CBE in 1978

Jackson portrayed stroke patient Patricia Neal, wife of the novelist Roald Dahl, in the 1981 television film The Patricia Neal Story

Jackson in 1984

In the 1984 TV film Sakharov, she played the wife of Russian dissident Andrei Sakharov

In the early 1990s, Jackson gave up acting to concentrate on politics. Here she is pictured after being elected as a Labour member of parliament for Hampstead and Highgate in 1992

Jackson in 1999. Portraits of her by Guardian and Observer photographers are housed in the GNM Archive

After 25 years away from the stage, Jackson returned to the stage in 2016 as Lear, pictured here with Sargon Yelda as Kent, in King Lear at the Old Vic, London

Jackson with Sir Michael Caine in 2022. The pair star alongside one another in the film The Great Escaper.