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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 20, 1949
Place of Birth:
Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
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Jessica Lange
Biography
Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is an American actress. She is the 13th actress to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, having won two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award, along with a Screen Actors Guild Award and five Golden Globe Awards.
Lange made her professional film debut in Dino De Laurentiis's 1976 remake of the 1933 action-adventure classic King Kong, for which she also won her first Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. In 1979, she starred in the acclaimed musical film All That Jazz. In 1983, she won her second Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a soap opera star in Tootsie (1982) and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the troubled actress Frances Farmer in Frances (1982). Lange received three more nominations for Country (1984), Sweet Dreams (1985) and Music Box (1989), before winning her third Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as a bipolar housewife in Blue Sky (1994).
In 2010, Lange won her first Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's aunt Big Edie in HBO's Grey Gardens (2009). Between 2011 and 2014, she won her first Screen Actors Guild Award, first Critics Choice Award, fifth Golden Globe Award, three Dorian Awards and her second and third Emmy Awards for her performances in the first, second and third seasons of FX's horror anthology series American Horror Story (2011–2015, 2018). In 2016, Lange won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for her performance in the Broadway revival of Long Day's Journey into Night. She also had a supporting role in Louis C.K.'s Peabody Award-winning web series Horace and Pete. In 2017, for her portrayal of actress Joan Crawford in the miniseries Feud, Lange received her eighth Emmy, 16th Golden Globe, sixth Screen Actors Guild Award and second TCA Award nominations. In 2019, she received a tenth Emmy nomination for her performance in American Horror Story: Apocalypse.
Lange is also a photographer with four published books of photography. She has been a foster parent and holds a Goodwill Ambassador position for UNICEF, specializing in HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Russia.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Long Day's Journey into Night | Mary Tyrone |
| 2024 | The Great Lillian Hall | Lillian Hall |
| 2023 | Marlowe | Dorothy Quincannon |
| 2018 | Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco | Self |
| 2016 | Wild Oats | Maddie |
| 2014 | The Gambler | Roberta |
| 2014 | Scorsese's Women | Star |
| 2013 | In Secret | Madame Raquin |
| 2012 | Shepard & Dark | Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | The Vow | Rita Thornton |
| 2012 | Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story | Self |
| 2009 | Grey Gardens | Big Edie |
| 2008 | A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' | Self |
| 2007 | Sybil | Dr. Cornelia Wilbur |
| 2006 | Bonneville | Arvilla Holden |
| 2005 | Broken Flowers | Carmen |
| 2005 | Don't Come Knocking | Doreen |
| 2005 | Neverwas | Katherine Pierson |
| 2005 | The Peace! | Self |
| 2004 | Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Big Fish | Sandra Bloom (senior) |
| 2003 | Masked and Anonymous | Nina Veronica |
| 2003 | Normal | Irma Applewood |
| 2001 | Prozac Nation | Mrs. Wurtzel |
| 2001 | The Making of 'Cape Fear' | Self |
| 2001 | A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances | Herself |
| 1999 | Titus | Tamora |
| 1998 | Hush | Martha Baring |
| 1998 | Cousin Bette | Cousin Bette |
| 1997 | A Thousand Acres | Ginny Cook Smith |
| 1995 | Rob Roy | Mary MacGregor |
| 1995 | Losing Isaiah | Margaret Lewin |
| 1995 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Blanche DuBois |
| 1994 | Blue Sky | Carly Marshall |
| 1992 | Night and the City | Helen Nasseros |
| 1992 | O Pioneers! | Alexandra Bergson |
| 1991 | Cape Fear | Leigh Bowden |
| 1990 | Men Don't Leave | Beth Macauley |
| 1990 | Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond | Self - Host |
| 1989 | Music Box | Ann Talbot |
| 1988 | Everybody's All-American | Babs Rogers Grey |
| 1988 | Far North | Kate |
| 1986 | Crimes of the Heart | Meg Magrath |
| 1986 | King Kong Lives | Dwan (archive footage) |
| 1985 | Sweet Dreams | Patsy Cline |
| 1984 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Maggie |
| 1984 | Country | Jewell Ivy |
| 1983 | Notre Dame de la Croisette | Self (uncredited) |
| 1982 | Frances | Frances Farmer |
| 1982 | Tootsie | Julie Nichols |
| 1981 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | Cora Papadakis |
| 1980 | How to Beat the High Cost of Living | Louise |
| 1979 | All That Jazz | Angelique |
| 1976 | King Kong | Dwan |
| The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion | |
| Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life | Self (archive footage) |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | The Politician | Dusty Jackson |
| 2017 | FEUD | Joan Crawford |
| 2017 | FEUD | Lillie Mae Faulk |
| 2016 | Horace and Pete | Marsha |
| 2015 | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Self |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self |
| 2011 | American Horror Story | Fiona Goode |
| 2011 | American Horror Story | Constance Langdon |
| 2011 | American Horror Story | Sister Jude Martin |
| 2011 | American Horror Story | Elsa Mars |
| 1997 | The View | Self |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self |
| 1993 | Intimate Portrait | Self |
| 1973 | The American Film Institute Salute to ... | Self |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1952 | Today | Self |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Alexandra Bergson |
| 1948 | Bambi-Verleihung | Self |