An Associate Member of RADA.
Appointed Junior transport minister in 1997.
Has a theatre named after her.
Has been nominated for Broadway's Tony Award four times: as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic), in 1966 for portraying Charlotte Corday in Peter Weiss' "Marat/Sade," a performance recreated in the film version of the same title, Marat/Sade (1967); and, as Best Actress (Play): in 1981 for "Rose;" in 1985 for playing Nina Leeds in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," a role she recreated in a television version of the same title, "American Playhouse: Strange Interlude (#7.1)" (1988); and in 1988 for playing Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's "Macbeth." She has yet to win.
In The Rainbow (1989) she plays the mother of the character she had played twenty years earlier in Women in Love (1969) .
In 1992 closed the curtain on her acting career and became Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate.
March, 2002 - was hospitalized for serious injuries sustained to her wrist and hip.
Mother to Daniel Pearce Jackson Hodges (b. 1969).
Named after actress Glenda Farrell.
On 5th May 2005 she has been re-elected MP for Hampstead & Highgate for the 4th time.
Only British Member of Parliament to win an Oscar.
Prior to military service, her father worked as a bricklayer.
Represented the north London communities of Hampstead and Highgate in Parliament.
She had her appendix removed. [October 1999]
She learned her craft (in part, at least) as a member of the Dundee Repertory Company in the early 1960s alongside Edward Fox, Michael Culver and Nicol Williamson.
She played Queen Elizabeth I in both "Elizabeth R" (1971) and Mary, Queen of Scots (1971).
She was awarded the 1984 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actress for her best performance in Strange Interlude.
She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1978 Queen's Honours List for her services to drama.
She was not present to receive either of her Oscars.