Obituary: Glenda Jackson: outstanding, ferocious presence in theatre and on screen
Actor gave time to single-issue campaigns, such as human rights and abortion before running for election in 1992
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Actor gave time to single-issue campaigns, such as human rights and abortion before running for election in 1992
Her acting was self-critical and unsentimental, driven, director Charles Marowitz said, by a “loathing for lame and easy effects.”
Glenda Jackson, who has died aged 87, was one of Britain’s most arrestingly forthright and abrasively intelligent exponents of the classics on stage and screen.
Actor who was a fearless, ferocious presence in theatre, cinema and television, then turned to politics as a Labour MP
Theatre director best known for his three major productions of Death of a Salesman, written by his hero Arthur Miller