Glenda Jackson’s long hiatus from acting certainly didn’t detract from the industry’s appreciation of the two-time Oscar winner. After leaving the stage and screen behind for U.K. politics in 1996, she returned 25 years later to star in a West End production of “King Lear,” a role that landed her a fifth Olivier Award nomination. She won a Tony Award in 2018 for lead actress in a play for “Three Tall Women” on Broadway, which she followed up with a BAFTA-winning turn in 2019 BBC One mystery “Elizabeth Is Missing.” The celebrated actress just received yet another honor: the British Independent Film Awards’ Richard Harris Award. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the news.

The award, given “for outstanding contribution by an actor to the British film industry,” counts Emma Thompson, Judi Dench, and Vanessa Redgrave among its previous recipients.

“Glenda Jackson is a pioneer of stage and screen whose choice of roles has often challenged and changed the narrative around both class and female representation,” said BIFA. “Her incredible body of work has spanned many genres and generations and she remains, to this day, one of the U.K.’s most talented and beloved thespians.”

A four-time Oscar nominee, Jackson took home the award for “A Touch of Class” and “Women in Love.”

While speaking with The Guardian in 2016, Jackson suggested that her return to acting didn’t lead to many interesting job offers. “That is one of the really shocking things that hasn’t changed in my 25 years of being out of it. Creative writers still don’t find women interesting,” she observed.” They are hardly ever the dramatic engine, they are mostly an adjunct, and I find that very bizarre.”