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Jessica Lange

Jessica Lange

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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  • BIRTH 20/04/1949
  • Country United States
  • SHOWS 8
  • MOVIES 39

Shows (8)

American Horror Story
American Horror Story
Constance Langdon / Elsa Mars / Fiona Goode / Sister Jude Martin
Feud
Feud
Joan Crawford / Lillie Mae Faulk
The Politician
The Politician
Dusty Jackson
The View
The View
Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
Hallmark Hall Of Fame
Hallmark Hall Of Fame
Alexandra Bergson
Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter
Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Horace and Pete
Horace and Pete
Marsha

Movies (39)

Big Fish
Big Fish
Sandra Bloom (senior)
The Vow
The Vow
Rita Thornton
Marlowe
Marlowe
Dorothy Quincannon
Broken Flowers
Broken Flowers
Carmen
Cape Fear
Cape Fear
Leigh Bowden
The Gambler
The Gambler
Roberta
Tootsie
Tootsie
Julie Nichols
Rob Roy
Rob Roy
Mary MacGregor
King Kong
King Kong
Dwan
Prozac Nation
Prozac Nation
Mrs. Wurtzel
All That Jazz
All That Jazz
Angelique
King Kong Lives
King Kong Lives
Dwan (archive footage)
Music Box
Music Box
Ann Talbot
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Cora Papadakis
Hush
Hush
Martha Baring
Grey Gardens
Grey Gardens
Big Edie
Cousin Bette
Cousin Bette
Cousin Bette
Blue Sky
Blue Sky
Carly Marshall
Frances
Frances
Frances Farmer
Sweet Dreams
Sweet Dreams
Patsy Cline
Titus
Titus
Tamora
In Secret
In Secret
Madame Raquin
Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story
Behind the Fright: The Making of American…
Self
Crimes of the Heart
Crimes of the Heart
Meg Magrath
Neverwas
Neverwas
Katherine Pierson
A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Acres
Ginny Cook Smith
Normal
Normal
Irma Applewood
Men Don't Leave
Men Don't Leave
Beth Macauley
Bonneville
Bonneville
Arvilla Holden
Losing Isaiah
Losing Isaiah
Margaret Lewin
Wild Oats
Wild Oats
Maddie
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Maggie
Masked and Anonymous
Masked and Anonymous
Nina Veronica
Night and the City
Night and the City
Helen Nasseros
Don't Come Knocking
Don't Come Knocking
Doreen
Men Don't Leave
Men Don't Leave
Beth Macauley
Everybody's All-American
Everybody's All-American
Babs Rogers Grey
Sybil
Sybil
Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
Far North
Far North
Kate