Two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson, who mixed acting with politics, dies at 87

Jackson’s agent Lionel Larner mentioned she died on Thursday at her dwelling in London after a brief sickness.

He mentioned she had just lately accomplished filming The Great Escaper, during which she co-starred with Michael Caine.

Jackson was one of many largest British stars of the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s, and received two Academy Awards, for Women in Love in 1970 and A Touch of Class in 1973.

She then went into politics, successful election to Parliament in 1992.

She spent 23 years as a Labour Party lawmaker, serving as a minister for transport in prime minister Tony Blair’s first authorities in 1997.

She got here to be at odds with Blair over the 2003 invasion of Iraq. She mentioned Blair’s resolution to enter the US-led battle with out United Nations’ authorisation left her “deeply, deeply ashamed”.

“The victims will be as they always are, women, children, the elderly,” she informed The Associated Press earlier than the invasion.

Jackson returned to appearing after leaving Parliament in 2015 and had a few of her most acclaimed roles, together with the title character in Shakespeare’s King Lear.