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Glenda May Jackson, CBE (born 9 May 1936) is a British actress and Labour Party politician. She first became a Member of Parliament (MP) in 1992, and represented Hampstead and Kilburn until 2015. As a professional actress from the late 1950s, she spent four years as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964, being particularly associated with the work of director Peter Brook. During her film career, she won two Academy Awards for Best Actress: for ''Women in Love'' (1970) and ''A Touch of Class'' (1973). Other award-winning performances include Alex in the film ''Sunday Bloody Sunday'' (1971) and the BBC television serial ''Elizabeth R'' (also 1971); for the latter she received an Emmy. From 1992 to 2010, Jackson was the MP for Hampstead and Highgate, and early in the government of Tony Blair served as a Junior Transport minister from 1997 to 1999, later becoming critical of Blair. After constituency boundary changes for the 2010 general election, her majority of 42 votes was one of the closest results of the entire election. She announced in 2011 that she would stand down as an MP at the 2015 general election. ==Early life and career== Jackson was born in Birkenhead on the Wirral, Cheshire, where her father was a builder, and her mother worked in shops and as a cleaner.〔Andrea Chambers ("With More Than a Touch of Sass and Stamina, Glenda Jackson Enjoys Her Strange Interlude Oh Broadway" ), ''People'', 23:11, 18 March 1985〕 Jackson was educated at the West Kirby County Grammar School for Girls, and performed at the Towns Women's Guild drama group during her teens.〔 She worked for two years in a branch of the Boots the Chemist chain before taking up a scholarship in 1954 to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.〔Jennifer Uglow, et al. ''The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography.'' London: Macmillan, 1999, p. 276 (US: Boston: Northeastern University Press)〕 Jackson made her professional stage debut in Terence Rattigan's ''Separate Tables'' in 1957 while at RADA.〔D. Keith Peacock "Jackson, Glenda ()" in Colin Chambers (ed) ''The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre'', London: Continuum, 2002 (), p.398〕 and appeared in repertory for the next six years.〔("Glenda Jackson (1936- )" ), in ''Who's Who in the Twentieth Century'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999 ISBN 9780192800916〕 Her film debut was a bit part in ''This Sporting Life'' (1963). A member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for four years from 1964, she originally joined for director Peter Brook's 'Theatre of Cruelty' season which included Peter Weiss' ''Marat/Sade'' (1965) in which she played an inmate of an asylum portraying Charlotte Corday, the assassin of Marat.〔David Edgar ("The best performance I've ever seen" ), ''The Guardian'', 18 July 2010〕 The production ran on Broadway in 1965 and in Paris〔 (Jackson appeared in the 1967 film version) and Jackson also appeared as Ophelia in Peter Hall's production of ''Hamlet'' in the same year.〔("''Hamlet'': Past Productions: On the RSC stage - 1965" ), BBC〕 Critic Penelope Gilliatt thought Jackson was the only Ophelia she had seen who was ready to play the Prince himself.〔Penelope Gilliatt ("Making ''Sunday Bloody Sunday''" ), The Criterion Collection, reprint of Gilliatt's introduction to the US publication of the script (1971).〕 The RSC's staging at the Aldwych Theatre of ''US'' (1966), a protest play against the Vietnam War, also featured Jackson, and she appeared in its film version, ''Tell Me Lies''.〔("Peter Brook Returns to the RSC to Host a Theatre of Protest Event" ), RSC, October 2011. A documentary of the stage production also exists, see Stuart Heaney ("''Benefit of the Doubt'' (1967)" ), BFI screenonline〕 Later that year, she starred in the psychological drama ''Negatives'' (1968), which was not a huge financial success, but won her more good reviews. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Glenda Jackson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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