Jessica Lange
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1949-04-20 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
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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Acting
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
as Self (archive footage)
The Year of Magical Thinking
as Joan Didion
(2025)
Long Day's Journey into Night
as Mary Tyrone
(2024)
The Great Lillian Hall
as Lillian Hall
(2023)
Marlowe
as Dorothy Quincannon
(2018)
(2016)
Wild Oats
as Maddie
(2014)
The Gambler
as Roberta
(2014)
Scorsese's Women
as Star
(2013)
In Secret
as Madame Raquin
(2012)
The Vow
as Rita Thornton
(2012)
(2012)
Shepard & Dark
as Self (archive footage)
(2009)
Grey Gardens
as Big Edie
(2008)
(2007)
Sybil
as Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
(2006)
Bonneville
as Arvilla Holden
(2005)
Broken Flowers
as Carmen
(2005)
Don't Come Knocking
as Doreen
(2005)
Neverwas
as Katherine Pierson
(2005)
The Peace!
as Self
(2004)
Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2003)
Big Fish
as Sandra Bloom (senior)
(2003)
Masked and Anonymous
as Nina Veronica
(2003)
Normal
as Irma Applewood
(2001)
Prozac Nation
as Mrs. Wurtzel
(2001)
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
as Self
(2001)
A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances
as Herself
(1999)
Titus
as Tamora
(1998)
Hush
as Martha Baring
(1998)
Cousin Bette
as Cousin Bette
(1997)
A Thousand Acres
as Ginny Cook Smith
(1995)
Rob Roy
as Mary MacGregor
(1995)
Losing Isaiah
as Margaret Lewin
(1995)
A Streetcar Named Desire
as Blanche DuBois
(1994)
Blue Sky
as Carly Marshall
(1992)
Night and the City
as Helen Nasseros
(1992)
O Pioneers!
as Alexandra Bergson
(1991)
Cape Fear
as Leigh Bowden
(1990)
Men Don't Leave
as Beth Macauley
(1990)
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
as Self - Host
(1989)
Music Box
as Ann Talbot
(1988)
Everybody's All-American
as Babs Rogers Grey
(1988)
Far North
as Kate
(1986)
King Kong Lives
as Dwan (archive footage)
(1986)
Crimes of the Heart
as Meg Magrath
(1985)
Sweet Dreams
as Patsy Cline
(1984)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
as Maggie
(1984)
Country
as Jewell Ivy
(1983)
Notre Dame de la Croisette
as Self (uncredited)
(1982)
Tootsie
as Julie Nichols
(1982)
Frances
as Frances Farmer
(1981)
The Postman Always Rings Twice
as Cora Papadakis
(1980)
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
as Louise
(1979)
All That Jazz
as Angelique
(1976)
King Kong
as Dwan
Crew
(2024)
The Great Lillian Hall
Executive Producer
(1984)
Country
Producer