Glenda Jackson: Oscar-winning actress and former MP dies aged 87 .

Oscar-winning actress and former MP Glenda Jackson has died at the age of 87, her agent has said.

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Jackson became an international star in the 1970s, winning Oscars for Women In Love and A Touch of Class, and receiving two further nominations.

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She also starred as Queen Elizabeth I in the acclaimed BBC drama Elizabeth R.

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Politics was always important, and she gave up acting to join the House of Commons as a Labour MP in north London from 1992 to 2015.

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That included two years as a junior transport minister in Tony Blair's New Labour government from 1997.

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died peacefully at her home in Blackheath, London this morning after a brief illness with her family at her side.

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