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Sir Michael Caine, 90, paid tribute to actress and former Labour MP Glenda Jackson, calling her one of our greatest movie actresses. They had been working together for a new film just weeks ago.

Glenda Jackson, a star of the screen and UK politics, started acting in the 1950s and went on to win two Academy Awards.

Glenda Jackson, the British actress who hit the snooze bar on her acting career for a 23-year career in politics, died on Thursday, as per her representatives. During her peak years in the 1970s and 80s, she won two Oscars (and was nominated for two more) and two Emmy Awards. She was nominated for four

LONDON (Reuters) - Actor Glenda Jackson, a two-time Oscar winner who won acclaim for playing an English queen but later served as a socialist politician in ...

Jackson was an Oscar and Tony Award winner, as well as a member of the British parliament for two decades.

Frank and witheringly funny, Jackson, who has died at 87, didn't care about her fame or her Oscars

Glenda Jackson, the two-time Oscar winner who starred in Women in Love and Touch of Class and served as a member of the U.K. parliament, has died.

In addition to her work as an actor, Ms. Jackson was a British Member of Parliament for 23 years.

Not afraid to embrace difficult material, by the early 1970s Jackson was established as the most emotionally intelligent female actor of her generation

Actor who was a fearless, ferocious presence in theatre, cinema and television, then turned to politics as a Labour MP