Early Life and Education
Jackson was born in Birkenhead on the Wirral, Cheshire where her father was a bricklayer. Jackson was educated at the West Kirby County Grammar School for Girls, then worked for two years in a Boots chemist shop, before studying at RADA in Bloomsbury.
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