Jessica Lange
44 movies · 6 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 20, 1949 (age 77)
- Place of birth
- Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
- Also known as
- Jessica Phyllis 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).
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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
Jessica Lange: movies and TV shows
Acting (50)
- Upcoming The Year of Magical Thinking
as Joan Didion
- 2026 Long Day's Journey into Night
as Mary Tyrone
- 2024 The Great Lillian Hall
as Lillian Hall
- 2023 Marlowe
as Dorothy Quincannon
- 2019
- 2017
- 2016 Wild Oats
as Maddie
- 2016
- 2014 The Gambler
as Roberta
- 2014 In Secret
as Madame Raquin
- 2012 The Vow
as Rita Thornton
- 2011 American Horror Story · TV
as Fiona Goode / Constance Langdon / Sister Jude Martin / Elsa Mars / Constance Langdon / Sister Jude Martin / Fiona Goode / Elsa Mars · 66 episodes
- 2009 Grey Gardens
as Big Edie
- 2007 Sybil
as Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
- 2006 Bonneville
as Arvilla Holden
- 2005 Neverwas
as Katherine Pierson
- 2005 Don't Come Knocking
as Doreen
- 2005 Broken Flowers
as Carmen
- 2003 Big Fish
as Sandra Bloom (senior)
- 2003 Masked and Anonymous
as Nina Veronica
- 2003 Prozac Nation
as Mrs. Wurtzel
- 2003 Normal
as Irma Applewood
- 1999 Titus
as Tamora
- 1998 Cousin Bette
as Cousin Bette
- 1998 Hush
as Martha Baring
- 1997 A Thousand Acres
as Ginny Cook Smith
- 1995 A Streetcar Named Desire
as Blanche DuBois
- 1995 Rob Roy
as Mary MacGregor
- 1995 Losing Isaiah
as Margaret Lewin
- 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
- 1989 Music Box
as Ann Talbot
- 1988 Far North
as Kate
- 1988 Everybody's All-American
as Babs Rogers Grey
- 1986 King Kong Lives
as Dwan (archive footage)
- 1986 Crimes of the Heart
as Meg Magrath
- 1985 Sweet Dreams
as Patsy Cline
- 1984 Country
as Jewell Ivy
- 1984 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
as Maggie Pollitt
- 1982 Tootsie
as Julie Nichols
- 1982 Frances
as Frances Farmer
- 1982
- 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
- 1951
Behind the camera (3)
- 2024 The Great Lillian Hall
Executive Producer
- 2017
- 1984 Country
Producer
Talk shows and appearances (28)
- 2018
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
1 episode
- 2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2 episodes
- 2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
1 episode
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
2 episodes
- 2012
- 2012
- 2008
- 2005
- 2005
- 2004
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
1 episode
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live!
1 episode
- 2001
- 2001
- 1997 The View
2 episodes
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio
1 episode
- 1993 Intimate Portrait
1 episode
- 1993 Late Show with David Letterman
1 episode
- 1990
- 1984 Hollywood '84
1 episode
- 1983
- 1982
- 1973
- 1971 Film '72
2 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
3 episodes
- 1952 Today
1 episode
- 1948 Bambi
1 episode