Glenda Jackson

Glenda May Jackson, CBE is a British actress and Labour Party politician. She first became a Member of Parliament in 1992, and represented Hampstead and Kilburn until 2015.

Jackson was born in Birkenhead on the Wirral, Cheshire, where her father was a builder, and her mother worked in shops and as a cleaner. Jackson was educated at the West Kirby County Grammar School for Girls, and performed at the Towns Womens Guild drama group during her teens. She worked for two years in a branch of the Boots the Chemist chain before taking up a scholarship in 1954 to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

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