Two-Time Oscar Winner Glenda Jackson Dies At 87

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, Elizabeth Piper and Kyllie MacLellan reported for Reuters.

Photo Insert: After more than three decades on stage and film, Jackson quit acting and took her no-nonsense, straight-talking style into politics.

One of four daughters of a bricklayer and a cleaning lady in northwest England, Jackson left school at the age of 15 and found work in a shop before winning a place at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

After more than three decades on stage and film, Jackson quit acting and took her no-nonsense, straight-talking style into politics.

She had been angered by the damage she believed was inflicted on the working classes by Margaret Thatcher, Britain's Conservative prime minister from 1979 until 1990.

In 1992, at the age of 55, Jackson won a seat in parliament representing Labor in a constituency in north London. “We must work for the poor, the homeless, the unemployed, the frail, the sick," she told supporters.

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