Glenda Jackson: 'My mother polished the gold plating off my Oscars'

Tuesday July 12, 2011
By TOM FOOT

GLENDA Jackson revealed on Sunday that her Oscars ended up on her mother's sideboard, insisting the awards had meant little to her personally.

The Hampstead and Kilburn MP, who won two Academy Awards during her distinguished acting career, told an audience at the Tricycle: "My mother used to keep them on the sideboard, and she polished everything within an inch of life. It didn't take long for the surface gold plating to come off and show the base metal on the inside which, I thought, was a neat analogy. Awards don't make you better – and no I didn't pick them up.”

Ms Jackson took part in a packed out question and answer session at the Kilburn cinema after a special screening of A Touch Of Class, one of the films for which she was honoured at the Oscars.

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