Jessica Lange
Born
20 April 1949 (76)
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...
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.
Filmography (40)
Long Day's Journey into Night
2025
The Great Lillian Hall
2024
Marlowe
2023
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
2018
Wild Oats
2016
The Gambler
2014
Scorsese's Women
2014
In Secret
2014
Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story
2012
Shepard & Dark
2012
The Vow
2012
Grey Gardens
2009
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
2008
Sybil
2007
Bonneville
2006
The Peace!
2005
Neverwas
2005
Don't Come Knocking
2005
Broken Flowers
2005
Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines
2004
Big Fish
2003
Masked and Anonymous
2003
Prozac Nation
2003
Normal
2003
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001
A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances
2001
Titus
1999
Cousin Bette
1998
Hush
1998
A Thousand Acres
1997
A Streetcar Named Desire
1995
Rob Roy
1995
Losing Isaiah
1995
Blue Sky
1994
Night and the City
1992
O Pioneers!
1992
Cape Fear
1991
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
1990
Men Don't Leave
1990
Music Box
1989