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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Jessica Lange Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jessica Lange |
| Also Know | ΤζÎσικα Λανγκ |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Cloquet, Minnesota, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1949-04-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 73 |
| Deathday |
Jessica Lange Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Music Box | Ann Talbot | 1989-12-22 | A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects…. |
| Frances | Frances Farmer | 1982-12-03 | The true story of Frances Farmer’s meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted…. |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Maggie | 1984-08-19 | Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, w… |
| Sybil | Dr. Cornelia Wilbur | 2007-05-28 | A true story of a young woman whose abusive childhood results in her developing a multiple personality disorder…. |
| Losing Isaiah | Margaret Lewin | 1995-03-17 | Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he … |
| Sweet Dreams | Patsy Cline | 1985-10-02 | The story of Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame…. |
| Country | Jewell Ivy | 1984-09-29 | Jewell and Gil are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gil has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, b… |
| Hush | Martha Baring | 1998-03-06 | Jackson and Helen are in love and about to have their first child when they move in with Jackson’s mother, Martha, in order to take care of the family… |
| Cousin Bette | Cousin Bette | 1998-06-12 | Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her … |
| Men Don’t Leave | Beth Macauley | 1990-02-02 | After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt f… |
| Blue Sky | Carly Marshall | 1994-09-16 | Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assigned to help conduct weapons testing in 1950s Americ… |
| O Pioneers! | Alexandra Bergson | 1992-02-02 | A young woman inherits her father’s farm after he dies. Over the years, she overcomes challenges and turns it into a success, all the while yearning f… |
| Far North | Kate | 1988-11-09 | After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope with their original issues…. |
| Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond | Self – Host / Narrator | 1990-10-22 | The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depression but always remained a star…. |
| Don’t Come Knocking | Doreen | 2005-05-19 | Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and y… |
| King Kong | Dwan | 1976-09-08 | In this remake of the 1933 classic, an oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him…. |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | Cora Papadakis | 1981-03-20 | The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband…. |
| Rob Roy | Mary MacGregor | 1995-04-13 | In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy … |
| Titus | Tamora | 1999-12-25 | Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare’s goriest and earliest tragedy…. |
| Tootsie | Julie Nichols | 1982-12-17 | When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Michaels – in order to land a part in a daytime drama, … |
| Everybody’s All-American | Babs Rogers Grey | 1988-11-04 | Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-school sweetheart, homecoming queen Babs Rogers, a… |
| Night and the City | Helen Nasseros | 1992-10-11 | Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter…. |
| All That Jazz | Angelique | 1979-12-16 | Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly col… |
| A Thousand Acres | Ginny Cook Smith | 1997-09-19 | The lives of an Iowa farmer’s three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family’s fertile farm…. |
| Crimes of the Heart | Meg Magrath | 1986-12-12 | Three sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother’s suicide…. |
| Normal | Irma Applewood | 2003-01-21 | A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation…. |
| Grey Gardens | Big Edie | 2009-06-21 | Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis raised as Park Avenue débutantes but who withdrew from New York so… |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Blanche DuBois | 1995-10-24 | Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn’t like her, and starts pushing her for information … |
| Wild Oats | Maddie | 2016-09-22 | Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000. She a… |
| Cape Fear | Leigh Bowden | 1991-11-13 | Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14… |
| How to Beat the High Cost of Living | Louise | 1980-07-11 | Oregon, 1980: Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford the high cost of living. Jane cannot afford a babysit… |
| In Secret | Madame Raquin | 2013-09-17 | In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her… |
| Marlowe | Dorothy Cavendish | 2023-02-15 | As bad business and loneliness is taking its toll on private detective Philip Marlowe, a beautiful blonde arrives and asks him to find her ex-lover, w… |
| Big Fish | Older Sandra Bloom | 2003-12-25 | Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge myste… |
| American Horror Story | Self | 2012-09-25 | In this video-short go behind the scenes with the cast of “American Horror Story” on how the show is made…. |
| Shepard & Dark | Self (archive footage) | 2012-09-11 | An indelible portrait of the complex relationship between playwright and actor Sam Shepard and his close friend Johnny Dark as they prepare forty year… |
| Broken Flowers | Carmen | 2005-08-05 | As the devoutly single Don Johnston is dumped by his latest girlfriend, he receives an anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son who may b… |
| Neverwas | Katherine Pierson | 2005-09-09 | Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What h… |
| Masked and Anonymous | Nina Veronica | 2003-07-25 | Amidst unrest, organizers put on a benefit concert…. |
| The Vow | Rita Thornton | 2012-02-05 | Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost th… |
| The Making of ‘Cape Fear’ | Self | 2001-09-18 | … |
| A Better Man: The Making of ‘Tootsie’ | Self | 2008-02-05 | Documentary about the making of the 1982 film, featuring interviews with the cast and crew…. |
| A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances | Herself | 2001-01-01 | The making of FRANCES, a retrospective documentary…. |
| Prozac Nation | Mrs. Wurtzel | 2001-09-08 | When talented young writer Elizabeth Wurtzel earns a scholarship to Harvard, she sees it as her chance to escape the pressures of her working-class ba… |
| The Gambler | Roberta | 2014-12-25 | Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangste… |
| The Peace! | Self | 2005-09-20 | Amid an escalating war in Iraq, rising terror levels and the threat of nuclear attack, a growing body of intellectuals, religious leaders and communit… |
| Bonneville | Arvilla | 2006-09-11 | Three women take a road trip to Santa Barbara in order to deliver the ashes of one of their dead husbands to his resentful daughter. Faced with the de… |
| Notre Dame de la Croisette | Self (uncredited) | 1983-02-23 | A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room…. |
| King Kong Lives | Dwan (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1986-12-19 | After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail, scientists engineer an artificial heart, and a g… |
| Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco | Self | 2018-09-13 | Sex Fashion and Disco is a documentary film concerning Antonio Lopez (1943-1987), the most influential fashion illustrator of 1970s Paris and New York… |
Jessica Lange Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Country | Producer | 1984-09-29 | Jewell and Gil are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gil has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, b… |
| Producer | Anthology series of famous feuds with the first season based on the legendary rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford which began early on their… | ||
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