Actress with a Touch of Class

 

British actress Glenda Jackson has passed at 87. Her career began in the sixties and encompassed stage and screen.  She won an Oscar for Women in Love and repeated with another Oscar in A Touch of Class. Other notable films included Sunday Bloody Sunday, Mary, Queen of Scotts, Hedda, Hopscotch, and her biggest box office hit, House Calls. She also won three Emmy Awards. She devoted much of her career to British politics serving in Parliament and later returned to acting winning a Tony Award as recently as 2018 for Three Tall Women. A thespian to the end, she just finished filming The Great Escaper (with Michael Caine) to be released posthumously.