Glenda jackson, a two-time academy award-winning performer, died at 87
She had also a second career in politics as a British lawmaker. Recently, she completed filming The Great Escaper, in which she co-starred with Michael Caine. Jackson was born in 1936 in Birkenhead, North West England.
She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She became one of the biggest British stars of the 1960s and '70s, and won two Academy Awards for Women in Love in 1971 and A Touch of Class in 1974.She then went into politics and won election to Parliament in 1992. She spent 23 years as a Labour Party lawmaker, serving as a minister for transport in prime minister Tony Blair's first government in 1997.
In 2015, Jackson returned to acting after leaving Parliament.
Daniel Ellsberg, renowned whistleblower of the pentagon papers, passes away at 92
