{"id":17170,"date":"2023-06-16T19:28:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T14:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=17170"},"modified":"2023-06-16T19:28:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T14:28:53","slug":"two-times-oscar-winner-glenda-jackson-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/showbiz\/two-times-oscar-winner-glenda-jackson-dies-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-times Oscar-winner Glenda Jackson dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-times Oscar-winning actor-turned-politician, Glenda Jackson died on Thursday, after a short period of illness. She was 87.<\/p>\n<p>As per the reports from foreign-based news agencies, the former UK politician breathed her last at her London home yesterday, confirmed her agent, Lionel Larner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlenda Jackson, two-time Academy Award-winning actress and politician, 87, died peacefully at her home in London this morning after a short illness with her family by her side,\u201d Larner confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe recently completed filming \u2018The Great Escaper\u2019 in which she co-starred with Michael Caine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Larner also grieved about losing a \u2018best friend of over 50 years\u2019 in Jackson.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/showbiz\/treat-williams-everwood-star-dies-in-road-accident.html\">Treat Williams: &#8216;;Everwood&#8217; star dies in road accident<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, her final co-star Caine, also paid tribute to \u2018one of our greatest movie actresses\u2019. \u201cIt was a privilege to work with her on The Great Escaper recently, our second film together. It was as wonderful an experience this time as it was 50 years ago. I shall miss her,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1936, in the northwestern town of Birkenhead in England, Glenda Jackson joined an amateur theatre group as a teenager before winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After graduating, the veteran featured on London\u2019s West End and also made her Broadway debut in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>She won her first Oscar in 1970 for the period drama \u2018Women in Love\u2019, while the second came a couple of years later for the British romantic comedy, \u2018A Touch of Class\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson turned to politics in 1992, becoming a Labour MP in opposition, a role she continued for 23 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-times Oscar-winning actor-turned-politician, Glenda Jackson died on Thursday, after a short period of illness. She was 87. As per the reports from foreign-based news agencies, the former UK politician breathed her last at her London home yesterday, confirmed her agent, Lionel Larner. \u201cGlenda Jackson, two-time Academy Award-winning actress and politician, 87, died peacefully at her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[295],"class_list":["post-17170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}