- Only British Member of Parliament to win an Oscar.
- Retired from acting in 1992 to run for Parliament in the Labour Party.
- Won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in "Three Tall Women".
- Since returning to acting after being a member of the British parliament for decades she has won a Tony, Bafta and International Emmy .
- Member of Parliament representing the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in north London from 2010 to 2015.
- The first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress for a role in which she appeared significantly 'nude' (Women in Love, 1969).
- Because she was working in England at the times of both Oscar wins, she was not present to receive either award.
- She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama.
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State responsible for London Transport from 1997 to 1999.
- Along with Vivien Leigh, she is one of only two British actresses to have won an Academy Award on two occasions: Leigh won Best Actress for Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) while Jackson won Best Actress for Women in Love (1969) and A Touch of Class (1973). Although Elizabeth Taylor - who won Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 (1960) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - was born in London, her parents were American and she was raised in the United States from the age of seven.
- Has a theatre named after her.
- She played Queen Elizabeth I in both Elizabeth R (1971) and Mary, Queen of Scots (1971).
- Nominated for Best Actress, for Elizabeth is Missing, Broadcasting Press Guilds Awards 2020.
- Is one of 14 Best Actress Oscar winners to have not accepted their Academy Award in person. Jackson was not present to accept either win (for Women in Love (1969) or A Touch of Class (1973)). The others are Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, Judy Holliday, Vivien Leigh, Anna Magnani, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, Anne Bancroft, Patricia Neal, Elizabeth Taylor, Maggie Smith and Ellen Burstyn.
- She was hospitalized after breaking her wrist and hip in a fall on the way to give a speech on March 22, 2002. She was able to give most of her speech before the pain forced her to go to the hospital.
- Named after actress Glenda Farrell.
- In 2018, Jackson became the 26th performer to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony). She won the 1971 and 1974 Best Actress Oscars for Women in Love (1969) and A Touch of Class (1973), the 1972 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Emmy Award for Elizabeth R (1971), and the 2018 Best Leading Actress in a Play Tony Award for "Three Tall Women".
- She learned her craft (in part, at least) as a member of the Dundee Repertory Company in the early 1960s alongside Edward Fox, Michael Culver and Nicol Williamson.
- Gave birth to her only child at age 32, a son Daniel Pearce Jackson Hodges (political blogger Dan Hodges) in March 1969. Child's father is her now ex-husband, Roy Hodges.
- Born on the same day as Albert Finney.
- Is a huge fan of the TV series The Wire (2002).
- Has been nominated for Broadway's Tony Award five times: as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic), in 1966 for portraying Charlotte Corday in Peter Weiss' "Marat/Sade," a performance recreated in the film version of the same title, Marat/Sade (1967); and, as Best Actress (Play): in 1981 for "Rose;" in 1985 for playing Nina Leeds in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," a role she recreated in a television version of the same title, Strange Interlude: Part 1 (1988); in 1988 for playing Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's "Macbeth"; and in 2018 for "Three Tall Women." She finally won the award for the latter performance.
- In The Rainbow (1989) she plays the mother of the character she had played twenty years earlier in Women in Love (1969) .
- Starred as King Lear on Broadway, early 2019.
- Member of Parliament representing the Hampstead and Highgate constituency in north London from 1992 to 2010.
- She along with Marlon Brando Gary Cooper, Bette Davis, Olivia de Haviland, Vivien Leigh ,Frederick March, Luise Rainer, Elizabeth Taylor and Spencer Tracy all won 2 Oscars each.
- She's the only actor to receive an Oscar nomination for an adaptation of a Henrik Ibsen play (Hedda (1975)).
- Pictured on one of a set of eight British commemorative postage stamps celebrating the 200th anniversary of The Old Vic Theatre, issued 30 August 2018.. The stamp shows Jackson in a 2016 performance of "King Lear". Other performers appearing on stamps in this set are Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Maggie Smith, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Sharon Benson, Judi Dench, John Stride, and Richard Burton.
- She was awarded the 1984 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actress for her best performance in Strange Interlude.
- Is mentioned in an early version of Warren Zevon's song "Werewolves of London" featured on the posthumous release in 2007: Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings.
- Won Broadcasting Press Guilds Award 2020 for Best Actress in 'Elizabeth is Missing'.
- In 1974 there were plans to make a bio pic of actress Francis Farmer directed by Ida Lupino and staring Glenda.
- An Associate Member of RADA.
- Prior to military service, her father worked as a bricklayer.
- Is one of two actresses who have won both the Best Actress Oscar (hers being for Women in Love (1969) and A Touch of Class (1973)) and the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Emmy (hers being for Elizabeth R (1971)). The other actress is Sally Field.
- One of the nominees for a 1980 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her performance in 'Rose' but lost out to Frances de la Tour.
- Is one of 17 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony). The others in chronological order are Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Audrey Hepburn, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Ellen Burstyn, Helen Mirren, Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange and Viola Davis.
- One of four British actresses to win two best actress Oscars . The other three are Vivien Leigh Dame Olivia De Havilland and Dame Elizabeth Taylor . Dame Emma Thompson also has two wins best actress and best screenplay and Dame Maggie Smith also has two wins best actress and best supporting actress.
- Is one of 25 actresses to have won an Academy Award for their performance in a comedy; hers being for A Touch of Class (1973). The others, in chronological order, are: Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night (1934)), Loretta Young (The Farmer's Daughter (1947)), Josephine Hull (Harvey (1950)), Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday (1950)), Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday (1953)), Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower (1969)), Lee Grant (Shampoo (1975)), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall (1977)), Maggie Smith (California Suite (1978)), Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard (1980)), Jessica Lange (Tootsie (1982)), Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck (1987)), Cher (Moonstruck (1987)), Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy (1989)), Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King (1991)), Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny (1992)), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway (1994)) Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite (1995)), Frances McDormand (Fargo (1996)), Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets (1997)), Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)), and Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook (2012)).
- Is one of 14 actresses to have won both the Best Actress Academy Award and the Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe for the same performance; hers being for A Touch of Class (1973). The others, in chronological order, are: Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday (1950), Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins (1964), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Cher for Moonstruck (1987), 'Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Helen Hunt for As Good as It Gets (1997), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Marion Cotillard for La Vie En Rose (2007), and Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook (2012).
- She had her appendix removed in October of 1999.
- Maternal granddaughter of Robert (1881-1970) and Harriet (née Roberts) Pearce (1883-1950).
- She died only one day before her Elizabeth R (1971) co-star Angela Thorne.
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