Winner of best leading
Actress award tells pre-show panel she fears for equality in the arts
Glenda Jackson, winner of the leading actress award at this year’s Bafta TV awards for the
BBC drama Elizabeth Is Missing, has voiced her fears about gender equality in the arts.
Taking part in a virtual, pre-show panel for Bafta alongside fellow nominees Suranne Jones and Jodie Comer, Jackson, 84, said that she would like to see more parts for female actors who were “the dramatic engine” of a piece. “I find it incomprehensible [that] contemporary writers still find us so boring,” Jackson said. “They never, or hardly ever, place us as the central engine.”