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Glenda Jackson

June 2024

  • Glenda Jackson and Michael Caine in The Great Escaper.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    The Great Escaper to Poolman: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Glenda Jackson’s swansong – and probably Michael Caine’s – is an impossibly moving drama about the D-day’s 70th-anniversary bash in Normandy. Plus, Chris Pine’s jolly, silly mashup of The Big Lebowski and Chinatown

March 2024

  • a photo of late actor Matthew Perry is displayed

    Matthew Perry, Richard Lewis, Glenda Jackson and Alexei Navalny remembered at Oscars

    Annual sequence devoted to recently deceased figures in the film industry also recognised Tom Wilkinson and William Friedkin

December 2023

  • Glenda Jackson in 1974.

    The Observer's obituaries of 2023
    Glenda Jackson remembered by Gordon Brown

    The politician recalls the actor and fellow Labour MP, a passionate campaigner for social justice who never exploited fame to advance her career

October 2023

  • Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson in The Great Escaper.

    The Great Escaper review – Michael Caine is gruffly heartbreaking in this veteran adventure

  • Legendary performer … Sir Michael Caine as Bernard Jordan in The Great Escaper

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    The Great Escaper review – Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson exude ineffable class

September 2023

  • ‘We’re just so bloody old!’ … Michael Caine and John Standing.

    ‘I’m 90. I worry if I’m gonna make it to lunch’: Michael Caine and John Standing on wives, war and feeling like the Queen

    The actors star alongside the late Glenda Jackson in The Great Escaper, the moving real-life story of a D-day veteran. They reflect on class, communism and female cage-fighting
  • Glenda Jackson<br>British actress and Labour Party politician Glenda Jackson, UK, 27th May 1975. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    Letter: Glenda Jackson obituary

    Albert Beale writes: Glenda Jackson was both charming and intimidating
  • Glenda Jackson with the MP Tulip Siddiq.

    Brief letters
    Glenda Jackson: a working-class act

    Brief letters: Origins of a political actor | Scottish tenements | Bee-eaters’ wasted journey | Croquet resistance
  • Glenda Jackson in 1999.

    In memory of Glenda Jackson: ‘She touched something central about what it means to be alive’

    Two people who watched the actor and Labour politician closely remember the desire to get to the truth that made her so powerful on stage, screen and in parliament
  • Glenda Jackson in Mothering Sunday.

    ‘The fists were up and ready’: working with the returning Glenda Jackson

    After retiring from politics, Glenda Jackson made three films: one for TV, Elizabeth is Missing, and two for the big screen, Mothering Sunday and the upcoming The Great Escaper. The people behind those projects remember a fierce, funny and formidable titan
  • Tulip Siddiq and Glenda Jackson

    My mentor Glenda Jackson taught me to be a rebel with a cause

    Tulip Siddiq
  • Glenda Jackson as Cleopatra, centre, with Eric Morecambe, right, and Ernie Wise rehearsing a sketch for The Morecambe and Wise Show.

    ‘Principled, gifted, committed’: politicians and actors salute Glenda Jackson

  • Glenda Jackson, who has died at the age of 87.

    Share your tributes and memories of Glenda Jackson

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Fierce, sensual, cerebral: Glenda Jackson brought class to cinema

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Glenda Jackson: a life in pictures

  • Glenda Jackson was piercingly intelligent and unafraid to take risks

    Michael Billington
  • Glenda Jackson, fearless actor and politician, dies aged 87

July 2022

  • ‘Always demanding the truth’ … Peter Brook at the Bouffes du Nord, Paris.

    ‘The greatest director the world has ever seen’ – actors salute Peter Brook

    Adrian Lester stripped back Hamlet with him, Janet Suzman can still hear the audience gasp, Glenda Jackson dug deep for the director and for Frances de la Tour he was incomparable

June 2022

  • Glenda Jackson: ‘I’ve been very lucky in the parts I’ve had the opportunity to do’

    The reader interview
    Glenda Jackson answers your questions: ‘I think that’s a gross insult about politicians and actors, frankly’

  • Glenda Jackson.

    The reader interview
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