Glenda Jackson in Scenes from an Execution at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 1989. Photo: Tristram Kenton
Indomitable, multiple award-winning actor and Labour MP whose early career ignited at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1960s and who took a 23-year hiatus from acting to enter politics, returning to play King Lear in 2016
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