Jessica Lange
Born: 1949-04-20 in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Long Day's Journey into Night as Mary Tyrone
2024
- The Great Lillian Hall as Lillian Hall
2023
- Marlowe as Dorothy Quincannon
2019
- The Politician as Dusty Jackson
2018
2017
- FEUD as Joan Crawford
- Inside Look: Feud - Bette and Joan as Self
2016
- Wild Oats as Maddie
- Horace and Pete as Marsha
2015
2014
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- In Secret as Madame Raquin
- The Gambler as Roberta
- Scorsese's Women as Star
2012
- The Vow as Rita Thornton
- Shepard & Dark as Self (archive footage)
- Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story as Self
2011
- American Horror Story as Fiona Goode
2009
- Grey Gardens as Big Edie
2008
2007
- Sybil as Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
2006
- Bonneville as Arvilla Holden
2005
- Broken Flowers as Carmen
- Neverwas as Katherine Pierson
- Don't Come Knocking as Doreen
- The Peace! as Self
2004
- Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines as Self - Narrator (voice)
2003
- Big Fish as Sandra Bloom (senior)
- Normal as Irma Applewood
- Masked and Anonymous as Nina Veronica
2001
- Prozac Nation as Mrs. Wurtzel
- The Making of 'Cape Fear' as Self
- A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances as Herself
1999
- Titus as Tamora
1998
- Cousin Bette as Cousin Bette
- Hush as Martha Baring
1997
- The View as Self
- A Thousand Acres as Ginny Cook Smith
1995
- Losing Isaiah as Margaret Lewin
- A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois
- Rob Roy as Mary MacGregor
1994
- Blue Sky as Carly Marshall
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993
- Intimate Portrait as Self
1992
- O Pioneers! as Alexandra Bergson
- Night and the City as Helen Nasseros
1991
- Cape Fear as Leigh Bowden
1990
- Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond as Self - Host
- Men Don't Leave as Beth Macauley
1989
- Music Box as Ann Talbot
1988
- Far North as Kate
- Everybody's All-American as Babs Rogers Grey
1986
- King Kong Lives as Dwan (archive footage)
- Crimes of the Heart as Meg Magrath
1985
- Sweet Dreams as Patsy Cline
1984
- Country as Jewell Ivy
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Maggie
- Hollywood '84 as Self
1983
- Notre Dame de la Croisette as Self (uncredited)
1981
- The Postman Always Rings Twice as Cora Papadakis
1980
- How to Beat the High Cost of Living as Louise
1979
- All That Jazz as Angelique
1976
- King Kong as Dwan
1973
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1952
- Today as Self
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Alexandra Bergson
1948
- Bambi as Self