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Acting

Glenda Jackson

Career: Active from 1965 to 2025, with a break from 1995 to 2018, busiest in 1971 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 43
top three billing

Average score: 62/100

Highest rated: Elizabeth Is Missing
84/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

Academy Awards · Actress in a Leading Role
1974 · Won · 46th Academy Awards
A Touch of Class
Source: Wikidata
Primetime Emmy Awards · Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
1972 · Won · 24th Primetime Emmy Awards
Elizabeth R
Source: Wikidata
Primetime Emmy Awards · Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
1972 · Won · 24th Primetime Emmy Awards
Elizabeth R
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actress in a Leading Role
1971 · Won · 43rd Academy Awards
Women in Love
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actress in a Leading Role
1976 · Nominated · 48th Academy Awards
Hedda
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actress in a Leading Role
1972 · Nominated · 44th Academy Awards
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Source: Wikidata

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 25 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Glenda Jackson Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.6, average 5.4
Scare
1.2, average 2.6
Violence
2.8, average 4.1
Adrenaline
3.5, average 4.8

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

Social Commentary 7
Character-Driven 4
Literary Adaptation 4
Complex Relationships 3
Psychological Drama 3
Complex Characters 3
Historical Drama 3
Character Study 3
Mind Games 2
Melancholic 2
Historical Romance 2
Historical Setting 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

60

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

4 titles · average score 67

Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders

as Archive

The Great Escaper

68

as Irene Jordan

Mothering Sunday

65

as Jane (Older)

Mothers of the Revolution

as Narrator (voice)

2010s

1 title · average score 84

Elizabeth Is Missing

84

as Maud Palmer Horsham

1990s

6 titles · average score 62

A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai

as Alexandra Kollontai (voice)

The Secret Life of Arnold Bax

as Harriet Cohen

A Murder of Quality

61

as Alisa Brimley

The House of Bernarda Alba

as Bernarda

King of the Wind

63

as Queen Caroline

The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty

as Glitch the Witch (voice)

1980s

14 titles · average score 59

The Rainbow

61

as Anna Brangwen

Doombeach

as Miss Ricketts

Salome's Last Dance

57

as Herodias / Lady Alice

Strange Interlude

TV show · as Nina Leeds

Beyond Therapy

27

as Charlotte

Turtle Diary

75

as Neaera Duncan

Sakharov

as Yelena Bonner

The Return of the Soldier

57

as Margaret Grey

Giro City

as Sophie

The Patricia Neal Story

67

as Patricia Neal

Hopscotch

76

as Isobel

HealtH

47

as Isabella Garnell

1970s

18 titles · average score 61

House Calls

47

as Ann Atkinson

Stevie

70

as Stevie Smith

The Class Of Miss MacMichael

52

as Conor MacMichael

The Romantic Englishwoman

65

as Elizabeth

The Tempter

as Sister Geraldine

A Touch of Class

75

as Vicki Allessio

Bequest to the Nation

64

as Lady Hamilton

The Triple Echo

61

as Alice Charlesworth

Elizabeth R

80

TV show · as Queen Elizabeth I

Sunday Bloody Sunday

76

as Alex Greville

Mary, Queen of Scots

54

as Queen Elizabeth

The Music Lovers

64

as Antonina 'Nina' Milyukova

1960s

15 titles · average score 74

Women in Love

77

as Gudrun Brangwen

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

TV show · as Marina Palek

Negatives

60

as Vivien

Let's Murder Vivaldi

as Julie

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

83

as Charlotte Corday

Half Hour Story

TV show · as Claire Foley

Horror of Darkness

as Cathy

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Margaret Schlegel

National Geographic Specials

78

TV show · as Narrator

The Wednesday Play

TV show · as Cathy / Julie

World in Action

TV show

This Sporting Life

86

as Singer at Party (uncredited)

1950s

2 titles · average score 66

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show

The Extra Day

63

as Extra (uncredited)