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Two-time Oscar-winning actress, Glenda Jackson, has passed on.
She died at the age of 87 following a short illness.
Her demise was confirmed by her Lionel Larner.
“Glenda 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,” Lionel Larner confirmed to CNN on Thursday.
“She recently completed filming ‘The Great Escaper’ in which she co-starred with Michael Caine.”
Adding a personal comment about his relationship with Jackson, he said: “Today we lost one of the world’s greatest actresses and I have lost a best friend of over 50 years.”
Tributes are pouring in for the late British actor and politician.
Hollywood actor Michael Caine, the last of Jackson’s co-stars, said after her death that she was “one of our greatest movie actresses,” adding: “It 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,” he continued.
Born in the northwestern town of Birkenhead in England in 1936, Jackson joined an amateur theater group as a teenager before winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
After graduating she starred on London’s West End and made her Broadway debut in 1965 in a production of “Marat/Sade.”
The screen followed. She won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for her role opposite Oliver Reed in the 1969 period drama “Women in Love.”
Her second came soon after for the 1973 romantic comedy “A Touch of Class” – two years after her notable depictions of Queen Elizabeth I in both the BBC’s biographic film “Elizabeth R” and the historical drama “Mary, Queen of Scots.”
May her soul rest in peace!
