Jessica Lange
Acting
Born: April 20, 1949 (age 77) · Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
Highest Rated
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). 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.
Known for
Big Fish
2003
American Horror Story
2011
The Vow
2012
Cape Fear
1991
Tootsie
1982
The Gambler
2014
Broken Flowers
2005
King Kong
1976
Rob Roy
1995
All That Jazz
1979
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981
Marlowe
2023
Photos (10)
Movies (43)
Cape Fear
Leigh Bowden
Marlowe
Dorothy Quincannon
Broken Flowers
Carmen
A Thousand Acres
Ginny Cook Smith
The Gambler
Roberta
In Secret
Madame Raquin
Titus
Tamora
Big Fish
Sandra Bloom (senior)
King Kong
Dwan
Neverwas
Katherine Pierson
The Vow
Rita Thornton
Cousin Bette
Cousin Bette
King Kong Lives
Dwan (archive footage)
All That Jazz
Angelique
Everybody's All-American
Babs Rogers Grey
Tootsie
Julie Nichols
Masked and Anonymous
Nina Veronica
The Great Lillian Hall
Lillian Hall
Crimes of the Heart
Meg Magrath
Losing Isaiah
Margaret Lewin
Men Don't Leave
Beth Macauley
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Cora Papadakis
Wild Oats
Maddie
Blue Sky
Carly Marshall
Rob Roy
Mary MacGregor
A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche DuBois
Music Box
Ann Talbot
O Pioneers!
Alexandra Bergson
Prozac Nation
Mrs. Wurtzel
Don't Come Knocking
Doreen
Sweet Dreams
Patsy Cline
Hush
Martha Baring
Frances
Frances Farmer
Grey Gardens
Big Edie
Night and the City
Helen Nasseros
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
Louise
Sybil
Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
Country
Jewell Ivy
Long Day's Journey into Night
Mary Tyrone
Bonneville
Arvilla Holden
Normal
Irma Applewood
Far North
Kate
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Maggie Pollitt
TV Shows (12)
American Horror Story
Fiona Goode · 13 eps
American Horror Story
Constance Langdon · 14 eps
American Horror Story
Sister Jude Martin · 13 eps
American Horror Story
Elsa Mars · 13 eps
American Horror Story
Constance Langdon / Sister Jude Martin / Fiona Goode / Elsa Mars · 13 eps
American Playhouse
Maggie Pollitt · 1 eps
American Playhouse
Alexandra Bergson · 1 eps
The Politician
Dusty Jackson · 8 eps
FEUD
Joan Crawford · 16 eps
FEUD
Lillie Mae Faulk · 2 eps
Horace and Pete
Marsha · 10 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Alexandra Bergson · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (24)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest · 2 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The View
Self · 2 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · 1 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · 1 eps
Today
Self · 1 eps
Intimate Portrait
Self · 1 eps
Bambi
Self · 1 eps
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · 2 eps
The Oscars
Self · 3 eps
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self · 1 eps
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · 1 eps
Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story
Self
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
Self
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
Self
Notre Dame de la Croisette
Self (uncredited)
El Fantasma de la Libertad o cuánto valen 3 mil toneladas de uranio empobrecido
Self
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
Self
The Making of 'Tootsie'
Self
A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances
Herself
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
Self - Host
Shepard & Dark
Self (archive footage)