Jessica Lange
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 20, 1949 (age 77)
- Birthplace
- Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
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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Filmography
The Year of Magical Thinking
Movie · as Joan Didion
Long Day's Journey into Night
Movie · as Mary Tyrone
The Great Lillian Hall
Movie · as Lillian Hall
Marlowe
Movie · as Dorothy Quincannon
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Politician
TV · as Dusty Jackson · 8 eps
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
Movie · as Self
FEUD
TV · as Joan Crawford, Lillie Mae Faulk · 16 eps
Wild Oats
Movie · as Maddie
Horace and Pete
TV · as Marsha · 10 eps
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
In Secret
Movie · as Madame Raquin
The Gambler
Movie · as Roberta
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
Shepard & Dark
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Vow
Movie · as Rita Thornton
Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story
Movie · as Self
American Horror Story
TV · as Fiona Goode, Constance Langdon, Sister Jude Martin, Elsa Mars, Constance Langdon / Sister Jude Martin / Fiona Goode / Elsa Mars · 13 eps
Grey Gardens
Movie · as Big Edie
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
Movie · as Self
Sybil
Movie · as Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
Bonneville
Movie · as Arvilla Holden
Broken Flowers
Movie · as Carmen
Don't Come Knocking
Movie · as Doreen
Neverwas
Movie · as Katherine Pierson
The Peace!
Movie · as Self
El Fantasma de la Libertad o cuánto valen 3 mil toneladas de uranio empobrecido
Movie · as Self
Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Big Fish
Movie · as Sandra Bloom (senior)
Masked and Anonymous
Movie · as Nina Veronica
Prozac Nation
Movie · as Mrs. Wurtzel
Normal
Movie · as Irma Applewood
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
Movie · as Self
A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances
Movie · as Herself
Titus
Movie · as Tamora
Hush
Movie · as Martha Baring
Cousin Bette
Movie · as Cousin Bette
A Thousand Acres
Movie · as Ginny Cook Smith
The View
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Rob Roy
Movie · as Mary MacGregor
Losing Isaiah
Movie · as Margaret Lewin
A Streetcar Named Desire
Movie · as Blanche DuBois
Blue Sky
Movie · as Carly Marshall
Inside the Actors Studio
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Intimate Portrait
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Late Show with David Letterman
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Night and the City
Movie · as Helen Nasseros
O Pioneers!
Movie · as Alexandra Bergson
Cape Fear
Movie · as Leigh Bowden
Men Don't Leave
Movie · as Beth Macauley
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
Movie · as Self - Host
Music Box
Movie · as Ann Talbot
Everybody's All-American
Movie · as Babs Rogers Grey
Far North
Movie · as Kate
Crimes of the Heart
Movie · as Meg Magrath
King Kong Lives
Movie · as Dwan (archive footage)
Sweet Dreams
Movie · as Patsy Cline
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Movie · as Maggie Pollitt
Country
Movie · as Jewell Ivy
Hollywood '84
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Notre Dame de la Croisette
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
Frances
Movie · as Frances Farmer
Tootsie
Movie · as Julie Nichols
The Making of 'Tootsie'
Movie · as Self
American Playhouse
TV · as Maggie Pollitt, Alexandra Bergson · 1 ep
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Movie · as Cora Papadakis
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
Movie · as Louise
All That Jazz
Movie · as Angelique
King Kong
Movie · as Dwan
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Film '72
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Today
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Alexandra Bergson · 1 ep
Bambi
TV · as Self · 1 ep