Jessica Lange
7.1Acting

Jessica Lange

Apr 20, 1949 - Cloquet, Minnesota, USA

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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Credits

Cast

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Movie2005Broken FlowersCarmen
Movie2003Big FishSandra Bloom (senior)
Movie1991Cape FearLeigh Bowden
Movie1989Music BoxAnn Talbot
Movie1982FrancesFrances Farmer
Movie2005Don't Come KnockingDoreen
Movie1976King KongDwan
Movie1984Cat on a Hot Tin RoofMaggie
Movie2012Shepard & DarkSelf (archive footage)
Movie1981The Postman Always Rings TwiceCora Papadakis
Movie2025Long Day's Journey into NightMary Tyrone
Movie2005NeverwasKatherine Pierson
Movie1995Rob RoyMary MacGregor
Movie2003Masked and AnonymousNina Veronica
Movie1982TootsieJulie Nichols
Movie1988Everybody's All-AmericanBabs Rogers Grey
Movie2007SybilDr. Cornelia Wilbur
Movie1999TitusTamora
Movie2023MarloweDorothy Quincannon
Movie1995Losing IsaiahMargaret Lewin
Movie1984CountryJewell Ivy
Movie1992Night and the CityHelen Nasseros
Movie1985Sweet DreamsPatsy Cline
Movie2001Prozac NationMrs. Wurtzel
Movie2006BonnevilleArvilla Holden
Movie1979All That JazzAngelique
Movie1998HushMartha Baring
Movie1997A Thousand AcresGinny Cook Smith
Movie1986Crimes of the HeartMeg Magrath
Movie2003NormalIrma Applewood
Movie1998Cousin BetteCousin Bette
Movie2009Grey GardensBig Edie
Movie2012The VowRita Thornton
Movie1990Men Don't LeaveBeth Macauley
Movie1994Blue SkyCarly Marshall
Movie1992O Pioneers!Alexandra Bergson
Movie1988Far NorthKate
Movie2001The Making of 'Cape Fear'Self
Movie2005The Peace!Self
Movie1995A Streetcar Named DesireBlanche DuBois
Movie1980How to Beat the High Cost of LivingLouise
Movie2013In SecretMadame Raquin
Movie1983Notre Dame de la CroisetteSelf (uncredited)
Movie2014The GamblerRoberta
Movie2024The Great Lillian HallLillian Hall
MovieN/AThe Year of Magical ThinkingJoan Didion
Movie2016Wild OatsMaddie
Movie1986King Kong LivesDwan (archive footage)
Movie2008A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'Self
Movie2012Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror StorySelf
Movie2001A Hollywood Life: Remembering FrancesHerself
Movie1990Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and BeyondSelf - Host
Movie2018Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & DiscoSelf
Movie2014Scorsese's WomenStar
Movie2004Peace by Peace: Women on the FrontlinesSelf - Narrator (voice)
TV Show1994Inside the Actors StudioSelf1
TV Show1952TodaySelf1
TV Show1951Hallmark Hall of FameAlexandra Bergson1
TV Show1993Intimate PortraitSelf1
TV Show1953The OscarsSelf3
TV Show2011American Horror StoryFiona Goode13
TV Show2011American Horror StoryConstance Langdon14
TV Show2011American Horror StorySister Jude Martin13
TV Show2011American Horror StoryElsa Mars13
TV Show2016Horace and PeteMarsha10
TV Show2017FEUDJoan Crawford8
TV Show1973The American Film Institute Salute to ...Self1
TV Show2015Close Up with The Hollywood ReporterSelf2
TV Show2019The PoliticianDusty Jackson8
TV Show2017FEUDLillie Mae Faulk2
TV Show1948Bambi-VerleihungSelf1
TV Show2014Late Night with Seth MeyersSelf1
TV Show1997The ViewSelf2
TV Show2014Variety Studio: Actors on ActorsSelf1

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Movie1984CountryProducerProduction
Movie2024The Great Lillian HallExecutive ProducerProduction
TV Show2017FEUDProducerProduction