Glenda May Jackson CBE (9 May 1936 – 15 June 2023) was an English actress and politician. She was one of the few artists to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, having won two Academy Awards, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. She was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1978.
She has died on 15 June 2023 following a brief illness, at the age of 87.
Damn! She was Elizabeth I for me, having played the role in Elizabeth R on Masterpiece Theater and in the theatrical film Mary, Queen of Scots.
But she was Charlotte Corday in Marat/Sade, too. Aside from Turtle DiaryI don’t think I saw her other notable performances.
In her recent late blooming, she was brilliant in the TV play Elizabeth Is Missing - and I wish I’d seen her King Lear.
But she’ll also be remembered as acting the celebrity stooge for Morecambe and Wise:
Not to mention the Muppets
(It wouldn’t let me link to it)
Well, damn. I’m glad I saw her play King Lear on Broadway when I had the chance.
The only thing I remember her from is Ken Russell’s The Last Dance of Salome which was a very strange movie.
A brilliant actress. I know her mainly from Elizabeth R and Hedda.
RIP.
I remember her co-starring with Walter Matthau in several comedy movies. Hopscotch is a favorite. A CIA op gets revenge (writes book) for being retired by the agency.
Glenda was always interesting in her roles.
She was fantastic alongside Walter Matthau in both House Calls and Hopscotch. I just watched Hopscotch yesterday, and loved so many of her lines.
To CIA agent Follet, who’s tailing her in Salzburg: Oh, do stop following me around. You’re making my dog very nervous. He detests the smell of stupidity!
HA! aceplace57 knows what I’m talking about! 
I watched Hopscotch last winter. It’s a fun movie.
IMDb link.
The first thing I saw her in was The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1967) where she played the crucial character of Charlotte Corday. Excellent as the fragile/eerie assassin.
Then she had a great early run that included: The Maids, A Touch of Class, Mary, Queen of Scots, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Elizabeth R and Women in Love .
I enjoyed her very much in A Touch of Class and Nasty Habits, but mostly House Calls.
I got to see her at the Old Vic in Lear. Tiny woman. Tremendous presence.
She said the best bit of direction she ever got was from Eric Morecambe. “Again. This time louder, and faster.”
Most of Ms. Jackson’s films have no appeal to me. Consequently, I’ve only seen bits and pieces of several of them. She was excellent in Mary, Queen of Scots, but the film takes great liberties with history. Women in Love was beautifully shot, but as good as Ms. Jackson may have been in it, I really only remember the nude wrestling scene between Oliver Reed and Alan Bates. I have enjoyed Salome’s Last Dance several times – Imogen Millais-Scott gives an incredible performance as (a maid playing) Salome, all the more so because she was nearly blind at the time – and Ms. Jackson is her usual formidable presence as Queen Herodias (in the play within the film).
Re: Marat/Sade - Hate to nitpick here, but Glenda Jackson and (most of) the cast are playing inmates of an asylum performing a play. With the exception of Patrick Magee as de Sade (and maybe one or two others), they are not actual historical characters. Jackson is a narcoleptic and depressive and (as I recall) doesn’t have much to do in the film besides clipping Marat in his bathtub, though she does a make quite an impression.
I realized that I didn’t make that clear a while later. Yeah, she’s playing someone who’s playing Corday.