LONDON—Actress Glenda Jackson, a two-time Oscar winner who later served as a socialist politician in the British parliament for 23 years, has died. She was 87.
Her agent said she had died at her home in southeast London after a brief illness.
Jackson had starred on stage, television, and film before quitting to take up politics with the Labour Party, declaring: “An actor’s life is not interesting.”
The current lawmaker for Jackson’s former seat in parliament said she was devastated to hear of her predecessor’s death.
“A formidable politician, an amazing actress, and a very supportive mentor to me,” Tulip Siddiq said on Twitter….