Glenda Jackson has said she hopes the coronavirus crisis will bring the issue of social care “up the political ladder”. The veteran actress and former MP returned to screens to play a woman living with dementia in Elizabeth Is Missing, and was rewarded with a best actress TV Bafta. Based on the best-selling novel, Jackson stars as Maud, a woman determined to solve the mystery of her missing friend Elizabeth while slowly losing herself to the disease. On your feet for the icon that is Glenda Jackson, picking up the #VirginMediaBAFTAs Award for Leading Actress for her performance in Elizabeth is Missing 👏 pic.twitter.com/S62jbWBk8R — BAFTA (@BAFTA) July 31, 2020Speaking after her win, she said: “It’s a subject that is of particular interest to me because it’s waiting for us all, we are as a society living much longer. “Perhaps one of the benefits to this Covid pandemic is that social care has gone up the political ladder.

Source: Irish Independent July 31, 2020 21:33 UTC