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Glenda Jackson: I began acting so that I could eat

Glenda Jackson has said she went into acting because “if you didn’t work, you didn’t eat”.

The 86-year-old Oscar-winning actress and former politician told The Times Magazine she only started acting after she failed her school certificate, leaving her with no option but to start working at the age of 16.

“I come from a family where if you didn’t work, you didn’t eat. That was the class structure,” she said of her childhood on the Wirral, Merseyside.

She joined a friend at the YMCA amateur dramatics society while was working at Boots. She later attended the RADA drama school after receiving a grant from Cheshire county council.

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