Glenda Jackson left school at 15 and worked at Boots Chemist. Apparently her ambition was to get a transfer from the medical counter to cosmetics.
But after studies at RADA she worked as an actress from the late 1950s onwards - the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964, where Glenda Jackson worked with director Peter Brook during 'Theatre of Cruelty' season (Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade (1965) and subsequently in the 1967 film version – which had a profound impact on myself as a photographer.
Glenda Jackson also worked with other extraordinary directors like Ken Russell, Melvin Frank and Peter Hall and has won two Academy Awards for Best Actress: for Women in Love (1970) and A Touch of Class (1973).
At the same time she was present on TV – like when playing Queen Elizabeth I in the BBC's serial Elizabeth R (1971).
As if it was not enough Jackson stood for election to the House of Commons in the 1992 general election, subsequently becoming the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate.
Recently Glenda Jackson returned to the stage playing the title role in William Shakespeare's King Lear.
This portrait of Glenda Jackson was taken during one of her last performance in pre-political stage of Glenda Jackson’s life, in a theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue.