A Woman Grapples with Two Mysteries: "Elizabeth Is Missing" on MASTERPIECE, Sunday, Sept 26 at 9 p.m. woub.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from woub.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In her novel Elizabeth is Missing published in 2014, writer Emma Healey’s main character is an 80 years old woman struggling with memory loss.Maud Horsham’s daily life is not easy, she can’t remember where she is or the people who visit her (including her aid and family) even what she went to buy from the supermarket. She keeps writing notes to remind.
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In early January, WMHT and other PBS stations ran a feature film from 2019 starring Glenda Jackson as part of their Masterpiece series. It’s called Elizabeth Is Missing, and its available on DVD and streaming on PBS Passport. Looking haggard at the age of 85, Jackson proves that her acting ability is in topnotch condition, even as her wrinkled face and scrawny physique show advanced age. She embodies the lead character of Maud Horsham, a woman who is sinking, or has sunk, into dementia.
Elizabeth Is Missing is a UK production shot in Paisley, Scotland. Andrea Gibb wrote the screenplay, which is based on a novel by Emma Healey. Gibb has quite a resume, having penned episodes of PBS series Sanditon and Call the Midwife, as well as such humanist feature films as AfterLife about a journalist who cares for a sister with Downs Syndrome and Dear Frankie, the story of a mother who forges letters and hires a stranger to pose as her young son’s missing father.
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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