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At 84, Glenda Jackson has lived many lives over. Born in Cheshire to a builder and a shop assistant, Jackson won a scholarship to the prestigious drama school RADA before becoming a highly respected theater performer within the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her breakout screen role in Ken Russellâs
Women in Love earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1971, the first of two she would receive over the course of her career. Following acclaimed appearances on Broadway, an Emmy-winning turn as Queen Elizabeth I, and even a stint in comedy working with the English double act Morecambe and Wise, she retired from acting in 1992 to become a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party, largely in response to what she saw as the âdestructionâ wrought by Margaret Thatcher on Britainâs working classes. Then, after retiring from politics, she made a surprise return to the London stage as King Lear, receiv