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LONDON (AP) – Glenda Jackson, a two-time Academy Award-winning performer who had a second career in politics as a British lawmaker, has died at 87.<\/p>\n
Jackson’s agent, Lionel Larner, said he died Thursday at his home in London after a short illness. He said he had recently finished filming “‘The Great Escaper,'” in which he co-starred with Michael Caine.<\/p>\n
Jackson was one of the biggest British stars of the 1960s and 1970s, winning two Academy Awards, for “Women in Love” in 1970 and “A Touch of Class” in 1973.<\/p>\n
She then turned to politics, winning election to Parliament in 1992. She spent 23 years as a Labor MP, serving as transport minister in Prime Minister Tony Blair’s first government in 1997.<\/p>\n
She came to be at odds with Blair over the invasion of Iraq in 2003. She said Blair’s decision to enter the US-led war without UN authorization left her “deeply, deeply ashamed”.<\/p>\n
“The victims will be as they always are, women, children, the elderly,” he told The Associated Press before the invasion.<\/p>\n
Jackson returned to acting after leaving Parliament in 2015 and had some of his most acclaimed roles, including the title character in Shakespeare’s “King Lear.”<\/p>\n