Glenda Jackson in Elizabeth R. Posted by Getty
Though Glenda Jackson has been absent from the screen and stage for almost a quarter of a century when she devoted herself to her political career, she has managed to play a wide variety of roles on both sides of her tenure as an MP.
Almost uniquely among actors of her generation, she managed to balance between lead actress and character actor, being both a profitable star and a charmingly unpredictable performer who would spice up any film or production she was in. It's hard to imagine that she has ever performed poorly, but these five roles, from the beginning to the end of her career, perfectly epitomize her eclectic and dazzling talent.
1. Marat/Sade (1965)
Jackson did not make her theater debut in Peter Weiss's Persecution and Murder of Jean-Paul Marat by the Marquis de Sade (usually abbreviated as Marat/Sade), but it was her first performance that alerted the public to her presence among them. new significant star.
Glenda Jackson in Marat/Sad. Authors: Getty
Like the revolutionary aristocrat Charlotte Corday, Jackson was magnetic and changeable; Critic Roger Ebert said of her performance in the film adaptation that «[she] vacillates between the melancholy of her mental illness and the fire of the role she plays.»
2. Women in Love (1969)
Jackson didn't have to strip for this adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's poignant and down-to-earth novel, unlike her co-stars Alan Bates and Oliver Reed, but she gave her character a powerful sexual charge. , artistic Gudrun Brangwen.
Glenda Jackson in Women in Love. Author: Alamy
She was chosen against the original wishes of the film's director Ken Russell, who did not believe that Jackson was sensual or erotic enough to explain why men fall so madly in love with her. Jackson not only proved him wrong, but also blew the screen with her tough and passionate performance, which established her as one of Britain's leading actresses and won her the first of her two Oscars.
3. Elizabeth R. (1971)
It's a funny irony that Jackson — the least regal and affected of the main actresses — is to play Elizabeth I in the BBC's premier drama about her life, consisting of six 90-minute films and featuring a virtual «Who's Who» of the main characters in support.
Robert Hardy and Glenda Jackson in Elizabeth R. Authors: Alamy
No one, however, can take the spotlight off the true queen herself, who plays the role with a mixture of naturalism and arrogance that brings the monarch to life in far more captivating fashion than anyone else until Cate Blanchett appeared in 1998. Jackson managed to win two separate Emmy Awards for her performance and was nominated for a Bafta Award, which she was also expected to receive.
4. Music Lovers (1971)
Jackson's second collaboration with Ken Russell was less satisfying than her first, as the director unleashed the self-righteous pyrotechnics he largely kept in «Women in Love.» She later said of him that «Ken questions how we as recipients put creative people on some sort of pedestal.
He was always interested in the viewer, not the participant. However, not only did she perform brilliantly as Tchaikovsky's disillusioned wife, but in the film's most infamous scene, when she is writhing naked on the floor of a train, she was briefly injured by a falling prop, causing the operator, in her flashback, to sit on her bare knees, muttering like a mantra: «I'm a mmmm married man, I'm a mmmm married man.»
5. King Lear in The Old Vic (2016)
After a distinguished career in politics, Jackson returned to acting in 2015, but her stage comeback came in 2016 when she played King Lear on the Old Vic stage; a role she later reprized on Broadway in 2019. The ferocity and power of her playing, which the Telegraph called «stunning… she accomplished one of those 11-hour feats of human effort that will surely be talked about for years to come. those who see it» was a reminder to many who were too young to see her in her earlier stage roles that she was a great and versatile performer, even if she was characteristically self-deprecating and violent off stage.
Glenda Jackson in King Lear Credit: Alastair Muir
When one cheeky interviewer asked about her casting, she replied, “I'm perfect for King Lear. As my ex-husband told me, now you don't have to worry about makeup.»
6. Elizabeth Gone Missing (2019)
Jackson continued to act in television and film for the rest of her life, and her last film, The Great Fugitive, was a collaboration with Michael Caine, with whom she starred in The Romantic English Girl in 1975 , will be displayed. will be released later this year. However, her last defining role came a few years ago, in which she played Maude Horsham, an elderly woman suffering from dementia who tries to solve a mystery even as it fades.
Elisabeth is missing Credit: BBC
She won almost every award for this role, including another Emmy and a Bafta, as Anita Singh of The Daily Telegraph predicted, writing, «If you're an actress hoping to win a Bafta in February and your name isn't Glenda Jackson, I'm sorry to tell you this is not your year.» She turned out to be correct.
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