Editing Glenda Jackson (section)

==Acting career==

===1957–1968: Rise to prominence ===
In January 1957, Jackson made her professional stage debut in [[Ted Willis]]'s ''Doctor in the House'' at the [[Connaught Theatre]] in [[Worthing]].<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=30, 255 |oclc=42790640}}</ref> This was followed by [[Terence Rattigan]]'s ''[[Separate Tables]]'', while Jackson was still at RADA,<ref name="Peacock">D. Keith Peacock "Jackson, Glenda [May]" in Colin Chambers (ed) ''The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre'', London: Continuum, 2002 [2005], p.398.</ref> and she began appearing in repertory theatre.<ref name="Oxford">[http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100015264 "Glenda Jackson (1936– )"], in ''Who's Who in the Twentieth Century'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. {{ISBN|9780192800916}}</ref> She was also a stage manager at Crewe in repertory theatre.<ref name="WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO-2007" />

From 1958 to 1961, Jackson went through a period of two and a half years in which she was unable to find acting work. She unsuccessfully auditioned for the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] (RSC), and undertook what she later described as "a series of soul-destroying jobs". This included waitressing at [[The 2i's Coffee Bar]], clerical work for a large [[City of London]] firm, answering phones for a theatrical agent, and a role at [[British Home Stores]]. She also worked as a Bluecoat at [[Butlin's Pwllheli]] holiday resort on the [[Llŷn Peninsula]] in [[North West Wales]], where her new husband and fellow actor Roy Hodges was a [[Butlins Redcoats|Redcoat]]. Jackson eventually returned to repertory theatre in [[Dundee]], but worked in bars in between acting jobs.<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=38–42 |oclc=42790640}}</ref>

Jackson made her film debut in a bit part in the [[kitchen sink drama]] ''[[This Sporting Life]]'' (1963). A member of the RSC for four years from 1963, she originally joined for director [[Peter Brook]]'s [[Theatre of Cruelty]] season, which included [[Peter Weiss]]'s ''[[Marat/Sade]]'' (1965), in which she played an inmate of an insane asylum portraying [[Charlotte Corday]], the assassin of [[Jean-Paul Marat]].<ref>{{cite news |first=David |last=Edgar |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2010/jul/18/best-performance-david-edgar-marat-sade |title=The best performance I've ever seen |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |date=18 July 2010 |access-date=10 November 2018}}</ref> The production ran on Broadway in 1965 and in Paris<ref name="Oxford" /> (Jackson also appeared in the 1967 [[Marat/Sade (film)|film version]]). She appeared as [[Ophelia]] in [[Peter Hall (director)|Peter Hall]]'s production of ''[[Hamlet]]'' the same year.<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC – Hamlet – Past Productions: 1965 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/hamlet/past_productions/rsc_stage_1965.shtml |access-date=2 January 2024|publisher=BBC}}</ref> Critic [[Penelope Gilliatt]] thought Jackson was the only Ophelia she had seen who was ready to play [[Prince Hamlet|the Prince himself]].<ref>Penelope Gilliatt. [http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2524-making-sunday-bloody-sunday "Making ''Sunday Bloody Sunday''"], The Criterion Collection, reprint of Gilliatt's introduction to the US publication of the script (1971).</ref>

The RSC's staging at the [[Aldwych Theatre]] of ''[[US (play)|US]]'' (1966), a protest play against the [[Vietnam War]], also featured Jackson, and she appeared in its film version, ''Tell Me Lies''.<ref>[http://www.rsc.org.uk/about-us/press/releases/peter-brook-returns-to-the-rsc.aspx "Peter Brook Returns to the RSC to Host a Theatre of Protest Event"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150613075605/http://www.rsc.org.uk/about-us/press/releases/peter-brook-returns-to-the-rsc.aspx |date=13 June 2015 }}, RSC, October 2011. A documentary of the stage production also exists, see Stuart Heaney [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1379869/index.html "''Benefit of the Doubt'' (1967)"], BFI screenonline</ref> Later that year, she starred in the psychological drama ''[[Negatives (film)|Negatives]]'' (1968), which was not a huge financial success, but won her more good reviews.

===1969–1980: Breakthrough and acclaim ===
[[File:Glenda-Jackson-in-the-movie-Tempter-352118614265.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.9|160px|Jackson in a trailer for ''[[The Devil Is a Woman (1974 film)|The Devil Is a Woman]]'' (1973)]]

Jackson's starring role in [[Ken Russell]]'s film adaptation of [[D. H. Lawrence]]'s ''[[Women in Love (film)|Women in Love]]'' (1969) led to her first [[Academy Award for Best Actress]]. [[Brian McFarlane (writer)|Brian McFarlane]], the main author of ''The Encyclopedia of British Film'', wrote: "Her blazing intelligence, sexual challenge and abrasiveness were at the service of a superbly written role in a film with a passion rare in the annals of British cinema."<ref name="McFarlane">{{cite book|editor-first=Brian|editor-last=McFarlane|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film|publisher=Methuen/BFI|location=London, England|date=2003|isbn=978-0413773081|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofbr0000unse/page/n380 339]|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofbr0000unse|url-access=registration}}</ref> In the process of gaining funding for ''[[The Music Lovers]]'' (1970) from [[United Artists]], Russell explained it as "the story of a homosexual who marries a [[nymphomania]]c",<ref>{{cite magazine|first=David|last=Del Valle|url=http://www.filmsinreview.com/2012/06/20/camp-david-june-2012-tchaikovsky-is-just-not-that-into-you|title=Camp David June 2012: Tchiakovsky is Just Not That Into You|magazine=[[Films in Review]]|date=20 June 2012}}</ref> the couple being the composer [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] ([[Richard Chamberlain]]) and [[Antonina Miliukova]], played by Jackson. The film received mixed reviews in the US; the anonymous reviewer in ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' wrote of the two principals, "Their performances are more dramatically bombastic than sympathetic, or sometimes even believable."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/1970/film/reviews/the-music-lovers-1200422371/|title=Review: ''The Music Lovers''|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|location=Los Angeles, California|date=31 December 1970|access-date=10 November 2018}}</ref> ''The Music Lovers'' was a box-office success in Europe, reaching No. 1 in the UK's weekly rankings in March 1971. It was the first of four films starring Jackson which topped the box-office charts in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gallagher |first=Paul |date=23 April 2021 |title=Press Book for The Music Lovers: 'The Story of a Homosexual who Fell in Love with a Nymphomaniac' – 1971 |url=https://flashbak.com/press-book-for-the-music-lovers-the-story-of-a-homosexual-who-fell-in-love-with-a-nymphomaniac-1971-440600/ |access-date=25 July 2022 |website=Flashbak |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Swern-1995">{{cite book |last=Swern |first=Phil |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60281094 |title=The Guinness book of box office hits |date=1995 |publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]] |isbn=0-85112-670-7 |location=Enfield |oclc=60281094 |author-link=Phil Swern}}</ref> Jackson was initially interested in the role of Sister Jeanne in ''[[The Devils (film)|The Devils]]'' (1971), Russell's next film, but turned it down after script rewrites and deciding that she did not wish to play a third neurotic character in a row.<ref>{{cite book|last=Crouse|first=Richard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RA71s6Ih9D8C&pg=PT47|title=Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of ''The Devils''|publisher=ECW Press|date=2012|pages=47–48|isbn=9781770902817}}</ref>

[[File:Elizabeth1England.jpg|thumb|right|160px|Jackson portrayed Queen [[Elizabeth I]] in the [[BBC]] serial ''[[Elizabeth R]]'' (1971) earning two [[Primetime Emmy Awards]] for the role]] 
Jackson had her head shaved to play [[Queen Elizabeth I]] in the [[BBC]]'s serial ''[[Elizabeth R]]'' (1971). After the series aired on [[PBS]] in the US, she received two [[Primetime Emmy Award]]s for her performance. She also played Queen Elizabeth in the film ''[[Mary, Queen of Scots (1971 film)|Mary, Queen of Scots]];'' and gained an [[Academy Award]] nomination as well as a [[BAFTA Award]] for her role in [[John Schlesinger]]'s ''[[Sunday Bloody Sunday (film)|Sunday Bloody Sunday]]'' (both 1971).<ref>{{Cite web|title=1972 Film Actress &#124; BAFTA Awards|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1972/film/actress|access-date=2 January 2024|website=awards.bafta.org}}</ref> In July, ''Sunday Bloody Sunday'' topped the UK box-office charts for two weeks.<ref name="Swern-1995" /> That year, British exhibitors voted her the sixth most popular star at the British box office.<ref>Peter Waymark. "Richard Burton top draw in British cinemas." ''The Times'', London, 30 December 1971: 2. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 11 July 2012.</ref> Jackson's popularity was such that 1971 saw her receive Best Film Actress awards from the [[Variety Club of Great Britain]] (who also rewarded her similarly in 1975 and 1978), the [[1971 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics]] and the US [[National Society of Film Critics]].<ref name="WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO-2007" /> ''Mary, Queen of Scots'' was premièred in December 1971 in Los Angeles and was the 1972 [[Royal Film Performance]] in Britain, attended by the [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother|Queen Mother]], [[Princess Margaret]] and [[Lord Snowdon]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mary, Queen of Scots Blu-ray review {{!}} Cine Outsider |url=http://cineoutsider.com/reviews/bluray/m/mary_queen_of_scots_br.html |access-date=25 July 2022 |website=cineoutsider}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Queen Mother {{!}} Princess Margaret {{!}} British Royalty {{!}} Royal Film premier{{!}} 1972 | date=3 February 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x9abdC0Zu0 |language=en |access-date=25 July 2022}} via YouTube. [[Thames Television|ThamesTv]].</ref> The film reached No. 1 in the UK box-office charts in April that year, a position it held for five consecutive weeks.<ref name="Swern-1995" /> 

Jackson made the first of several appearances with [[Morecambe and Wise]] in their 1971 Christmas special. Appearing in a comedy sketch as [[Cleopatra]] for the BBC ''[[The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968–1977)|Morecambe and Wise Show]]'', she delivered the line, "All men are fools and what makes them so is having beauty like what I have got."<ref>{{Cite news |date=1 October 2015 |title=Eric Morecambe jokes and one-liners |language=en-GB |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/comedians/eric-morecambe-jokes/ |access-date=7 July 2022 |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> Her later appearances included a song-and-dance routine (where she was pushed offstage by Eric), a period drama about [[Queen Victoria]], and another musical routine (in their [[Thames Television]] series) where she was elevated ten feet in the air by a misbehaving swivel chair.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Two – The Morecambe and Wise Show, Christmas Show 1971 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gw1d0 |access-date=7 July 2022 |publisher=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Glenda Jackson |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f689afe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324211132/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f689afe |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 March 2016 |access-date=7 July 2022 |publisher=British Film Institute |language=en}}</ref> Jackson and Wise also appeared in a 1981 information film for the [[Blood Transfusion Service]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Blood Donor : Glenda and Ernie (1981) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/51804201a6335 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916060555/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/51804201a6335 |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 September 2020 |access-date=7 July 2022 |publisher=British Film Institute |language=en}}</ref>

Filmmaker [[Melvin Frank]] saw Jackson's comedy skills in the ''Morecambe and Wise Show'' and offered her the lead female role in his romantic comedy ''[[A Touch of Class (film)|A Touch of Class]]'' (1973), co-starring [[George Segal]], which was a UK box-office No. 1 in June 1973.<ref name="Swern-1995" /> In February 1974, Jackson's role in the film won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. She continued to work in the theatre, returning to the RSC for the lead in [[Henrik Ibsen]]'s ''[[Hedda Gabler]]''. A later film version directed by [[Trevor Nunn]] was released as ''[[Hedda (1975 film)|Hedda]]'' (1975), for which Jackson was nominated for an Oscar. In ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Vincent Canby]] wrote: "This version of ''Hedda Gabler'' is all Miss Jackson's Hedda and, I must say, great fun to watch ... Miss Jackson's technical virtuosity is particularly suited to a character like Hedda. Her command of her voice and her body, as well as the Jackson mannerisms, have the effect of separating the actress from the character in a very curious way."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=950DE1DB123DE532A25755C2A9679C946790D6CF|title=Hedda on Film Is All Glenda Jackson|last=Canby|first=Vincent|access-date=24 June 2018|language=en}}</ref> 

In 1978, she starred in the romantic comedy ''[[House Calls (1978 film)|House Calls]],'' co-starring [[Walter Matthau]], with the film spending two weeks at No. 1 in the US box-office rankings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=House Calls (1978) – Financial Information |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/House-Calls |access-date=21 July 2022 |website=The Numbers}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=3 May 1978 |title=50 Top-Grossing Films |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page=15}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=10 May 1978 |title=50 Top-Grossing Films |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page=15}}</ref> ''House Calls'' was the biggest box-office hit of her career in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glenda Jackson – Box Office |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/person/70680401-Glenda-Jackson |access-date=25 July 2022 |website=The Numbers}}</ref> That year, she was awarded a [[CBE]].<ref name="WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO-2007" /> In 1979, she reunited with her ''A Touch of Class'' colleagues Segal and Frank for the romantic comedy ''[[Lost and Found (1979 film)|Lost and Found]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LOST AND FOUND |url=https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/lostandfound |access-date=21 July 2022 |website=[[Sony Pictures]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Lost and Found |url=https://www.parkcircus.com/film/114561-Lost-and-Found |access-date=21 July 2022 |website=Park Circus |language=en}}</ref> Jackson and Matthau teamed again in the comedy ''[[Hopscotch (film)|Hopscotch]]'' (1980), which debuted at No. 1 in its opening weekend at the US box office, also spending its second week in the top spot.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=8 October 1980 |title=50 Top-Grossing Films |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1980-10-08_300_10/page/n8 |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=1 October 1980 |title='Hopscotch,' 'People' Lead Week's Pack of B.O. Contenders |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1980-10-01_300_9/page/3 |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=15 October 1980 |title=50 Top-Grossing Films |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1980-10-15_300_11/page/9 |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page=9}}</ref>

===1980–1991: Established actor ===
For her 1980 appearance on ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', Jackson told the producers she would perform any material they liked. In her appearance, she has a delusion that she is a pirate captain who takes over the Muppet Theatre as her ship.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilkie |first=Matt |date=6 November 2020 |title=The Muppet Show: 40 Years Later – Glenda Jackson |url=https://toughpigs.com/tms40-glenda-jackson/ |access-date=21 July 2022 |website=ToughPigs |language=en-US}}</ref> Fifteen years after the New York engagement of ''[[Marat/Sade]]'', Jackson returned to Broadway in [[Andrew Davies (writer)|Andrew Davies]]'s ''Rose'' (1981) opposite [[Jessica Tandy]]; both actresses received Tony nominations for their roles.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 January 2009 |title=Tony Awards 1981 {{!}} WestendTheatre.com |url=https://www.westendtheatre.com/11957/news/awards/tony-awards-1981/ |access-date=21 July 2022 |website=westendtheatre.com |language=en-GB}}</ref>  In September 1983, The Glenda Jackson Theatre in Birkenhead was named in her honour. The theatre was attached to [[Wirral Metropolitan College]], but demolished in 2005 following the establishment of a purpose-built site for students.<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 February 2005 |title=I'm glad it's going |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/im-glad-its-going-3535792 |access-date=21 July 2022 |website=[[Liverpool Echo]] |language=en}}</ref>

[[File:Amerikaanse tv-show Laat Polen Polen zijn op de televisie. Glenda Jackson tijd, Bestanddeelnr 931-9473.jpg|thumb|right|Jackson on ''[[Let Poland be Poland (TV)|Let Poland be Poland]]'' (1982)]]
In 1985, she played Nina Leeds in a revival of [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s ''[[Strange Interlude]]'' at the [[Nederlander Theatre]] in a production which had originated in London the previous year and ran for eight weeks.<ref name="Chambers" /> John Beaufort for ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'' wrote: "Bravura is the inevitable word for Miss Jackson's display of feminine wiles and brilliant technique."<ref>Beaufort, John. [http://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0226/lude.html "Lively revival of O'Neill's stormy ''Strange Interlude''"], ''The Christian Science Monitor'', 26 February 1985.</ref> [[Frank Rich]] in ''The New York Times'' thought Jackson, "with her helmet of hair and gashed features", when Leeds is a young woman, "looks like a cubist portrait of [[Louise Brooks]]", and later when the character has aged several decades, is "mesmerizing as a [[Zelda Fitzgerald]]esque neurotic, a rotting and spiteful middle-aged matron and, finally, a spent, [[sphinx]]-like widow happily embracing extinction."<ref>Rich, Frank (22 February 1985). [https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/22/arts/theater-a-fresh-look-for-o-neill-s-interlude.html "Theater: A Fresh Look for O'Neill's ''Interlude''"]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved 18 April 2020.</ref> [[Herbert Wise]] directed the drama on television where it was first broadcast in the US as part of PBS's ''[[American Playhouse]]'' in 1988.<ref>{{cite news|last=O'Connor|first=John J.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/18/arts/tv-reviews-glenda-jackson-in-strange-interlude.html|title=TV Reviews; Glenda Jackson in 'Strange Interlude'|work=The New York Times|date=18 January 1988|access-date=18 April 2020|url-access=registration}}</ref>

In November 1984, Jackson appeared in the title role of [[Robert David MacDonald]]'s English translation of [[Jean Racine|Racine]]'s ''[[Phèdre]]'', titled ''Phedra'', at [[The Old Vic]]. The play was designed and directed by [[Philip Prowse]], and [[Robert Eddison]] played [[Theramenes]].<ref>{{cite book|title =Phedra [theatre programme] |date =1984|publisher =Proscenium, for The Old Vic }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=London The Old Vic Theatre – Phedra – 1984 | website= Theatre Memorabilia .co.uk | url=https://www.theatrememorabilia.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2642 | access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''<nowiki/>'s John Barber wrote of her performance, "Wonderfully impressive ... The actress finds a voice as jagged and hoarse as her torment". [[Benedict Nightingale]] in the ''[[New Statesman]]'' was intrigued that Jackson did not go in for nobility, but played Racine's feverish queen as if to say that "being skewered in the guts by 
[[Cupid]] is an ugly, bitter, humiliating business".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-05-ca-11662-story.html|title=Glenda Jackson Shows Firepower In 'Phedre'|last= Sullivan| first=Dan| date=5 January 1985|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=26 June 2018|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref> The costume which Prowse designed for Jackson's performance is in the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]],<ref>{{cite web  | title=Theatre Costume, 1984, [by] Prowse, Philip | website=[[Victoria and Albert Museum]] | year=1984 | url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O102297/theatre-costume-prowse-philip/ | access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> and iconic photographs of Jackson in the role can be found online.<ref>{{cite web | title=MW_SC008 : Glenda Jackson | website=Iconic Images | date=6 September 2019 | url=https://iconicimages.net/photo/mw-sc008-glenda-jackson/ | access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Photostage.co.uk | website=Photostage Ltd | date=21 February 2019 | url=https://www.photostage.co.uk/stock-photo-phedra-by-jean-racine-english-stage-version-by-robert-david-macdonald-photostage-image00098792.html | access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref>

In 1989, Jackson appeared in Ken Russell's ''[[The Rainbow (1989 film)|The Rainbow]]'', playing Anna Brangwen, mother of Gudrun, the part for which she had won her first Academy Award twenty years earlier. The same year, she played Martha in a Los Angeles production of [[Edward Albee]]'s ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' at the Doolittle Theatre (now the [[Ricardo Montalbán Theatre]]). Directed by the playwright himself, this staging featured [[John Lithgow]] as George. [[Dan Sullivan (critic)|Dan Sullivan]] in the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' wrote that Jackson and Lithgow performed "with the assurance of dedicated character assassins, not your hire-and-salary types" with the actors being able to display their character's capacity for antipathy.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sullivan|first=Dan|date=6 October 1989|title=STAGE REVIEW : A Lower-Key George and Martha|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-06-ca-799-story.html|access-date=2 January 2024|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref> Albee was disappointed with this production, pointing to Jackson, who he thought "had retreated back to the thing she can do very well, that ice cold performance. I don't know whether she got scared, but in rehearsal she was being Martha, and the closer we got to opening the less Martha she was!"<ref>Stephen J. Bottoms ''Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 67–68.</ref> She performed the lead role in [[Howard Barker]]'s ''[[Scenes from an Execution]]'' as Galactia, a sixteenth-century female [[Venice|Venetian]] artist, at the [[Almeida Theatre]] in 1990.<ref>{{cite news|first=Matt|last=Wolf|date=11 March 1990|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/11/theater/theater-a-new-london-theater-team-is-attracting-stars.html|title=Theater; A New London Theater Team Is Attracting Stars|work=The New York Times|access-date=18 April 2020|url-access=registration}}</ref> It was an adaptation of Barker's 1984 radio play in which Jackson had played the same role.<ref>Milling, Jane. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kanLd67izZUC&pg=RA2-PT30 ''Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations''], A & C Black, 2012, p. 30.</ref>

===2015–2023: Return to acting===
[[File:GlendaJackBFI050722 (10 of 23) (52196800013) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|left|Jackson at BFI London in 2022]]
In 2015, Jackson returned to acting following a 23-year absence, having retired from politics. She took the lead role of Dide, the ancient matriarch, in ''Blood, Sex and Money'', a [[radio drama]] series based on the ''[[Les Rougon-Macquart]]'' novel series by [[Émile Zola]] and aired on [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]] from November 2015 to October 2016.<ref name="spectator-20151203">{{cite news |last=Chisholm |first=Kate |date=3 December 2015 |title=There will be blood |newspaper=The Spectator |url=https://beta.spectator.co.uk/article/there-will-be-blood-3-december-2015 |access-date=2 March 2020}}</ref> She returned to the stage at the end of 2016, playing [[Leir of Britain|the title role]] in [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[King Lear]]'' at the [[Old Vic]] Theatre in London, in a production running from 25 October to 3 December. Jackson was nominated for Best Actress at the [[Olivier Awards]] for her role but ultimately lost out to [[Billie Piper]]. She won the [[Natasha Richardson]] Award for Best Actress at the 2017 [[Evening Standard Theatre Awards]] for her performance.<ref name="lear">{{cite news |date=5 December 2017 |title=Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2017: Who won and why |work=Evening Standard |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/theatre/evening-standard-theatre-awards-2017-who-won-and-why-a3709411.html |access-date=9 December 2017}}</ref> Dominic Cavendish of ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'' wrote, "Glenda Jackson is tremendous as King Lear. No ifs, no buts. In returning to the stage at the age of 80, 25 years after her last performance (as the [[Clytemnestra]]-like Christine in [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' at the [[Citizens Theatre|Glasgow Citizens]]), she has pulled off one of those 11th-hour feats of human endeavour that will surely be talked about for years to come by those who see it."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cavendish |first=Dominic |date=5 November 2016 |title=King Lear, Old Vic, review: 'Glenda Jackson's performance will be talked about for years' |language=en-GB |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/king-lear-old-vic-review-glenda-jacksons-performance-will-be-tal/ |url-status=live |url-access=limited |access-date=18 April 2020 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/king-lear-old-vic-review-glenda-jacksons-performance-will-be-tal/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 2018, Jackson returned to [[Broadway (theatre)|Broadway]] in a revival of [[Edward Albee]]'s ''[[Three Tall Women]]'' acting alongside [[Laurie Metcalf]] and [[Allison Pill]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://observer.com/2018/03/broadway-review-glenda-jackson-returns-in-albees-three-tall-women/|title= 'Three Tall Women' Sets the Benchmark for Broadway in 2018|website= Observer|date= 30 March 2018|accessdate= 20 March 2024}}</ref> The role earned her the [[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.broadway.com/buzz/192455/three-tall-women-star-glenda-jackson-wins-first-tony-award-what-a-thrill/|title= Three Tall Women Star Glenda Jackson Wins First Tony Award: 'What a Thrill'|website= Broadway.com|accessdate= 20 March 2024}}</ref> [[Marilyn Stasio]] of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' wrote, "Watching Glenda Jackson in theatrical flight is like looking straight into the sun. Her expressive face registers her thoughts while guarding her feelings. But it's the voice that really thrills. Deeply pitched and clarion clear, it's the commanding voice of stern authority. Don't mess with this household god or she'll turn you to stone."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stasio |first=Marilyn |date=29 March 2018 |title=Broadway Review: 'Three Tall Women' With Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf |language=en-US |work=Variety |url=https://variety.com/2018/legit/reviews/three-tall-women-review-broadway-1202739273/ |access-date=24 June 2018}}</ref> Jackson returned to the title role of ''[[King Lear]]'' on Broadway in a production that opened in April 2019.<ref>{{Cite news |last=McHenry |first=Jackson |date=28 June 2018 |title=The Indefatigable Glenda Jackson Will Return to Broadway As Lear in a New King Lear |language=en-US |work=Vulture |url=http://www.vulture.com/2018/06/glenda-jackson-will-return-to-broadway-in-a-new-king-lear.html |access-date=28 June 2018}}</ref> Director [[Sam Gold]] described her portrayal of Lear in ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'': "She is going to go through something most people don't go through. You're all invited. Glenda Jackson is going to endure this, and you're going to witness it."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sehgal |first1=Parul |date=27 March 2019 |title=At 82, Glenda Jackson Commands the Most Powerful Role in Theater |magazine=[[The New York Times Magazine]] |location=New York City |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/magazine/glenda-jackson-king-lear.html |url-access=registration |access-date=18 April 2020}}</ref> In 2019, after a 27-year absence, Jackson returned to television drama, portraying an elderly grandmother struggling with dementia in ''[[Elizabeth Is Missing]]'' on [[BBC One]], based on the novel of the same name by [[Emma Healey]], for which she won the [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actress|BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress]] and [[International Emmy Award for Best Actress]].<ref>{{cite news |date=6 December 2019 |title=TV: Glenda Jackson on screen for the first time in over 25 years |language=en |work=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]] |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/18086358.tv-glenda-jackson-screen-first-time-25-years/ |access-date=9 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Mangan |first1=Lucy |author-link=Lucy Mangan |date=8 December 2019 |title=Elizabeth Is Missing review – Glenda Jackson shines in this heartrending whodunnit |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/dec/08/elizabeth-is-missing-review-glenda-jackson-shines-in-this-heartrending-whodunnit |access-date=9 December 2019}}</ref> From February 2020 to January 2022, she starred in the lead role of Constance Sterling in the radio drama series ''Fault Lines: Money, Sex and Blood'' for Radio 4, another adaptation of ''Les Rougon-Macquart''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mangan |first1=Lucy |author-link=Lucy Mangan |date=8 December 2019 |title=Fault Lines: Money, Sex and Blood |work=[[BBC]] |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fgjf |access-date=5 December 2024}}</ref>

In February 2021, it was reported that Jackson would star with [[Michael Caine]] in ''[[The Great Escaper]]'', a film telling the true story of Bernard Jordan's escape from his care home to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the [[D-Day]] landings in France. Caine would play Jordan, with Jackson as his wife Rene.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ramachandran |first=Naman |date=19 February 2021 |title=Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson Set for 'The Great Escaper,' Pathe to Sell at Berlin EFM |url=https://variety.com/2021/film/global/michael-caine-glenda-jackson-the-great-escaper-pathe-berlin-efm-1234911210/ |access-date=21 July 2022 |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Caine and Jackson previously starred together in ''[[The Romantic Englishwoman]]'' (1975).<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Romantic Englishwoman (1976) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b792e1182 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831063307/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b792e1182 |url-status=dead |archive-date=31 August 2017 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=British Film Institute |language=en}}</ref> Jackson had completed filming on ''The Great Escaper'' in September 2022; it was to be her last film.<ref name=iNews33>{{cite news|url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/film/directed-glenda-jackson-final-film-astonishing-2421475|title=I directed Glenda Jackson's final film – it was an astonishing few weeks|first=Oliver|last=Parker|work=[[i (British newspaper)|i]]|date=19 June 2023|access-date=29 July 2023}}</ref><ref name=Guardian33>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/jun/16/working-with-glenda-jackson-on-her-return-to-tv-and-film|title='The fists were up and ready': working with the returning Glenda Jackson|work=The Guardian|date=16 June 2023|access-date=29 July 2023}}</ref><ref name=Pathe33>{{cite news|url=https://pathe.co.uk/news/the-great-escaper1/|title=The Great Escaper|work=Pathe UK|date=8 September 2022|access-date=29 July 2023}}</ref> It was released on 6 October 2023.<ref name="BBC News-2023">{{cite web |date=15 June 2023 |title=Oscar-winning actress Glenda Jackson dies at 87 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65916692 |access-date=13 September 2024 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Obituaries |first=Telegraph |date=15 June 2023 |title=Glenda Jackson, 'electrifying' double Oscar-winning actress who spent 23 years as a Labour MP – obituary |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/06/15/glenda-jackson-actress-double-oscar-labour-mp-died-obituary/ |access-date=15 June 2023 |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> In July 2022, the [[British Film Institute]] celebrated her film and television career with a month-long retrospective season at the [[BFI Southbank]] in London. As well as screenings of her work, the programme included ''Glenda Jackson in Conversation'', in which she was interviewed about her career live on stage by broadcaster [[John Wilson (broadcaster)|John Wilson]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Announcing July 2022 at BFI Southbank: Satyajit Ray, Glenda Jackson, In the Black Fantastic and more |date=18 May 2022 |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/july-2022-bfi-southbank-satyajit-ray-glenda-jackson-black-fantastic |access-date=6 July 2022 |publisher=British Film Institute |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Griffiths-2022">{{Cite web |last=Griffiths |first=Robbie |date=6 July 2022 |title=Londoner's Diary: Glenda Jackson: Keir Starmer's voice is his big drawback |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/londoners-diary-glenda-jackson-keir-starmer-thor-boris-johnson-theresa-may-b1010538.html |access-date=6 July 2022 |website=[[Evening Standard]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=5 July 2022 |title=Glenda Jackson in Conversation |url=https://bfidatadigipres.github.io/events/2022/07/05/glenda-jackson-in-conversation/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |website=BFI Southbank Programme Notes |language=en}}</ref>