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==Personal life== [[File:Glenda Jackson (40443371183).jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Jackson on Broadway, March 2019]] === Marriage and relationships === In 1957, Jackson met Roy Hodges, a stage manager and fellow actor in their repertory theatre company. The pair soon embarked upon a relationship.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bryant |first=Christopher |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42790640 |title=Glenda Jackson: the biography |date=1999 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=0-00-255911-0 |location=London |pages=34β35 |oclc=42790640}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Woodward |first=Ian |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11658097 |title=Glenda Jackson: a study in fire and ice |date=1985 |publisher=[[Weidenfeld & Nicolson]] |isbn=0-297-78533-8 |location=London |pages=27β28 |oclc=11658097}}</ref> Jackson and Hodges were married on 2 August 1958 at St Marylebone Register Office in London.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bryant |first=Christopher |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42790640 |title=Glenda Jackson: the biography |date=1999 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=0-00-255911-0 |location=London |pages=36β37 |oclc=42790640}}</ref> Their son, [[Daniel Pearce Jackson Hodges|Dan]], was born in 1969; Jackson was six months pregnant when filming on ''Women in Love'' was completed.<ref>{{cite web |last=Stott |first=Catherine |date=28 November 2017 |title=An interview with Glenda Jackson β archive, 28 November 1969 |url=http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/nov/28/glenda-jackson-interview-women-in-love-1969 |access-date=7 July 2022 |website=The Guardian}}</ref> Daniel is a former Labour Party adviser and commentator, who works as a newspaper columnist for ''[[The Mail on Sunday]]''.<ref name="pr">{{cite news |last=Hall |first=Ian |title=Profile: Dan Hodges, Freedom To Fly |url=http://www.prweek.com/news/171693/ |date=28 February 2003 |work=[[PR Week]] |access-date=4 November 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Hasan |first=Mehdi |author-link=Mehdi Hasan |title=Mehdi Hasan: Dan Hodges. The Truth. And me. |date=20 October 2011 |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2011/10/dan-hodges-labour-miliband|magazine=[[New Statesman]]|access-date=18 April 2020 |url-access=registration}}</ref> When told by her son that he was going to write for a Conservative newspaper, Jackson replied, "Well, I'll have to emigrate!"<ref name="The Guardian-2019" /> Jackson's marriage was running into difficulties by the early 1970s, and in 1975, she began an affair with Andy Phillips, the lighting director for the production of ''Hedda Gabler'' in which she was starring at the time.<ref name="Bryant-1999-2">{{cite book |last=Bryant |first=Christopher |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42790640 |title=Glenda Jackson: the biography |date=1999 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=0-00-255911-0 |location=London |pages=131β141, 144β146 |oclc=42790640}}</ref> Hodges sued Jackson for divorce on the grounds of her adultery with Phillips in November that year, and they were divorced in 1976.<ref name="Bryant-1999-2" /><ref name="time">{{cite magazine |date=9 February 1976 |title=Milestones |magazine=Time |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,917985,00.html |url-status=dead |access-date=4 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100417111408/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,917985,00.html |archive-date=17 April 2010}}</ref> Jackson and Phillips were in an on-off relationship until 1981.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bryant |first=Christopher |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42790640 |title=Glenda Jackson: the biography |date=1999 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=0-00-255911-0 |location=London |pages=170 |oclc=42790640}}</ref> It was reported in 2016 that she had been "happily single for decades".<ref name="The Guardian-2016" /> === Interests === During the early years of her career, Jackson and her husband lived in [[Swiss Cottage]], northwest London, an area she would later represent as an MP.<ref>{{cite web |date=16 June 2022 |title=Glenda Jackson answers your questions: 'I think that's a gross insult about politicians and actors, frankly' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/16/glenda-jackson-answers-your-questions-i-think-thats-a-gross-insult-about-politicians-and-actors-frankly |access-date=7 July 2022 |website=The Guardian}}</ref> In the late 1960s, the pair moved to [[Blackheath, London|Blackheath]], southeast London.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bryant |first=Christopher |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42790640 |title=Glenda Jackson: the biography |date=1999 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=0-00-255911-0 |location=London |pages=94 |oclc=42790640}}</ref> Later, she lived in a basement [[granny flat]] there, with her son, daughter-in-law and grandson upstairs.<ref name="The Guardian-2020" /> Jackson listed her interests in ''[[Who's Who (UK)|Who's Who]]'' as cooking, gardening and reading [[Jane Austen]].<ref name="WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO-2007" /> ===Death=== Jackson died at her Blackheath home on 15 June 2023, at the age of 87 following a brief illness.<ref name="BBC News-2023" /> In tribute to Jackson, on the day of her death, the BBC broadcast a repeat of her interview with [[John Wilson (broadcaster)|John Wilson]] first shown in an edition of ''This Cultural Life'' in October 2022,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001crx3/this-cultural-life-series-2-glenda-jackson |title=This Cultural Life Series 2: Glenda Jackson |date=15 June 2023 |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 June 2023}}</ref> followed by the 2019 drama ''Elizabeth Is Missing''.<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Four β Schedules |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6b |access-date=16 June 2023 |publisher=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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