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In April 2013, Jackson gave a speech in parliament following the death of Margaret Thatcher. A member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) for four years from 1964, she originally joined for director Peter Brook's Theatre of Cruelty season, which included Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade (1965), in which she played an inmate of an insane asylum portraying Charlotte Corday, the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat.

On 31 October 2006, Jackson was one of 12 Labour MPs to back Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party's call for an inquiry into the Iraq War.[29]. Jackson also appeared as Ophelia in Peter Hall's production of Hamlet in the same year. [14], Following the House of Commons vote on 29 August 2013 against possible military involvement in the Syrian civil war, and objecting to Ed Miliband's conduct, Hodges left the Labour Party.

The Gospel Oak and Highgate wards became part of Holborn & St Pancras, and the new Hampstead & Kilburn constituency switched into Brent to include Brondesbury, Kilburn and Queens Park wards (from the old Brent East and Brent South seats). [16], Hodges announced his resignation from the Labour Party a second time in a December 2015 op-ed for The Daily Telegraph accusing party members of abuse and intimidation against Labour MPs. She did, however, win the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress at the 2017 Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her performance. [22] In February 1992, he lost the sight of his left eye trying to stop a fight in a bar. [34][35], In 2015, Jackson returned to acting following a 23-year absence, having retired from politics. She stated: "I will be almost 80 and by then it will be time for someone else to have a turn. Her command of her voice and her body, as well as the Jackson mannerisms, have the effect of separating the actress from the character in a very curious way. Celebrities and Notable People Who Have Had Coronavirus. Roy Hodges is an actor, theatre director and art dealer. She also called for him to resign following the Judicial Enquiry by Lord Hutton in 2003 surrounding the reasons for going to war in Iraq and the death of government adviser Dr. David Kelly. He worked for the successful No to AV campaign in 2011, but attracted controversy for one particularly provocative poster relating to the death of babies. [28], By October 2005, her disagreements with Blair's leadership swelled to a point where she threatened to challenge the Prime Minister as a stalking horse candidate in a leadership contest if he did not stand down within a reasonable amount of time. [44] They had a son, Dan Hodges (born 1969), who is now a newspaper columnist and former Labour Party adviser and commentator. No ifs, no buts. But it's the voice that really thrills. The Daily Telegraph's John Barber wrote of her performance, "Wonderfully impressive . In 2018, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in a revival of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, thus becoming one of the few performers to have achieved the "Triple Crown of Acting" in the US. [40] Director Sam Gold describes her portrayal of Lear in The New York Times Magazine : "She is going to go through something most people don't go through. [10] Later that year, she starred in the psychological drama Negatives (1968), which was not a huge financial success, but won her more good reviews.