According to her agent, she had recently completed filming The Great Escaper with Michael Caine.
Glenda Jackson, a two-time Academy Award-winning performer who had a second career in politics as a British lawmaker, has died at 87.“She recently completed filming The Great Escaper in which she co-starred with Michael Caine," he said.
FILE - British actress Glenda Jackson, Oscar and television award winner for her part as Queen Elizabeth I, is again Elizabeth of England, shown May 13, 1971 at Shepperton Studios, Middlesex, England for a new film Hal Wallis's production of Mary Queen of Scots. Jackson was one of the biggest British stars of the 1960s and 70s, and won two Academy Awards, for Women In Love and A Touch of Class.
She then went into politics, was elected to Parliament and spent 23 years as a Labour Party lawmaker. She returned to acting after leaving Parliament and had some of her most acclaimed roles, including the title character in Shakespeare's King Lear.
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