Star fuelled by boredom
Glenda Jackson has said boredom drew her to acting after she grew up learning that “if you didn’t work, you didn’t eat”.
The 86-year-old former politician has won the Oscar for best actress twice.
Jackson only began acting after she failed her school certificate, and started working at Boots at 16.
She said: “I wrote to the only drama school I’d heard of. They said, ‘If we had the money, we’d give you a scholarship. But we haven’t’, so the manager of Boots wrote to Cheshire Council, which gave me a grant.”