Glenda Jackson CBE (1936–), actor and politician, has earned the ‘Triple Crown of
Acting’, one of the very few performers to have ever done so.
Born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, to a working class family, she attended West Kirby
County Grammar School for Girls and performed in a local drama group as a teenager
before securing a scholarship for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1954. Jackson
made her stage debut in Terence Rattigan’s Separate Tables (1957) and her film debut in
This Sporting Life (1963) before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964–8.
Returning to the RSC in 1975 for Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, directed by Trevor Nunn, the
play was adapted and released as a film titled Hedda (1975), for which Jackson was
nominated for an Academy Award.
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Glenda Jackson CBE (1936–), actor and politician, has earned the ‘Triple Crown of
Acting’, one of the very few performers to have ever done so.
Born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, to a working class family, she attended West Kirby
County Grammar School for Girls and performed in a local drama group as a teenager
before securing a scholarship for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1954. Jackson
made her stage debut in Terence Rattigan’s Separate Tables (1957) and her film debut in
This Sporting Life (1963) before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964–8.
Returning to the RSC in 1975 for Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, directed by Trevor Nunn, the
play was adapted and released as a film titled Hedda (1975), for which Jackson was
nominated for an Academy Award.
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