Glenda Jackson, the double Oscar-winning actor and former Labour MP, has died aged 89 after a “brief illness”.
Her agent issued a statement that said Jackson died at her home in Blackheath, south-east London.
“Glenda Jackson, two-time Academy Award-winning actress and politician, died peacefully at her home in Blackheath, London this morning after a brief illness with her family at her side,” Lionel Larner said.
“She recently completed filming The Great Escaper in which she co-starred with Michael Caine.”
The screen star and former Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1970, for her performance as Gudrun Brangwen in Ken Russell’s adaptation of the DH Lawrence novel, Women in Love.
She won her second Best Actress Oscar three years later for A Touch Of Class, the 1973 romantic comedy about an adulterous couple having an affair. Jackson did not attend the ceremony on either occasion.
Despite her successful career, which also included two Emmy Awards and a Tony, Jackson previously said she never had any interest in the glamorous side of the film industry.
She gave up acting for politics more than a quarter of a century ago and served as a Labour MP for 23 years.
In 1992, she was elected as the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate and served as a junior transport minister from 1997 to 1999 during Sir Tony Blair’s government. She stood down as an MP at the 2015 general election and returned to acting.
She won a Bafta for best actress in 2019 for her role in Elizabeth Is Missing, which followed the story of a woman suffering from dementia.
Additional reporting by Press Association