Glenda won her Oscars for Women in Love and A Touch of Class, and after several decades as a full-time performer, she decided to shift her career away from acting and toward politics. Glenda became a Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate in the 1992 election, and her political career lasted for several decades until she retired in 2015.

More recently, Glenda had returned to the world of acting, and reports suggest that she had just finished filming a movie called The Great Escaper alongside Michael Caine. In 2018, she won a Tony Award for her performance in Three Tall Women, proving that she had not lost a beat since the 1970s. In both the acting world and the political realm, those who knew Glenda expressed their sorrow at the news of her death.

"Devastated to hear that my predecessor Glenda Jackson has died," Tulip Siddiq, the women who succeeded her as MP for Hampstead and Highgate, wrote on Twitter. "A formidable politician, an amazing actress and a very supportive mentor to me. Hampstead and Kilburn will miss you Glenda."

"The now sadly late Glenda Jackson won her first Oscar for her tremendous performance in Ken Russell’s Women in Love (1969). She really was a hugely talented, intelligent & charismatic Actress," Michael Warburton added. Glenda had legendary careers that spanned two totally distinct realms, and she will be remembered for her work in both of them.