Jessica Lange
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Lange, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
78
Gender
Female
Birthday
1949-04-20 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
Acting

2025

Long Day's Journey into Night as Mary Tyrone

2024

The Great Lillian Hall as Lillian Hall

2023

Marlowe as Dorothy Quincannon

2019

The Politician as Dusty Jackson

2017

FEUD as Joan Crawford

2017

FEUD as Lillie Mae Faulk

2016

Horace and Pete as Marsha

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

Shepard & Dark as Self (archive footage)

2011

American Horror Story as Fiona Goode

2011

American Horror Story as Constance Langdon

2011

American Horror Story as Sister Jude Martin

2011

American Horror Story as Elsa Mars

2009

Grey Gardens as Big Edie

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

1999

Titus as Tamora

1998

Hush as Martha Baring

1998

Cousin Bette as Cousin Bette

1997

The View as Self

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

1993

Intimate Portrait as Self

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

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

1979

All That Jazz as Angelique

1976

King Kong as Dwan

1953

The Oscars as Self

1952

Today as Self

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Alexandra Bergson

1948

Bambi-Verleihung as Self

NaN

Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life as Self (archive footage)

NaN

The Year of Magical Thinking as Joan Didion
Crew

2024

The Great Lillian Hall Executive Producer

2017

FEUD Producer

1984

Country Producer