About

Known credits:
61
Birthday:
1949-04-20
Place of birth:
Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
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Jessica Lange

Overview

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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Known for

Acting

2025 The Great Lillian Hall Actor Lillian Hall 58
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2023 Marlowe Actor Dorothy Quincannon 58
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2018 Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco Actor Self 59
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2016 Wild Oats Actor Maddie 59
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2016 Horace and Pete Actor Marsha 75
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2014 The Gambler Actor Roberta 59
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2014 American Horror Story: Freak Show Actor Elsa Mars N/A
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2014 Scorsese's Women Actor Star N/A
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2013 American Horror Story: Coven Actor Fiona Goode N/A
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2013 In Secret Actor Madame Raquin 59
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2012 American Horror Story: Asylum Actor Sister Jude Martin N/A
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2012 Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story Actor Self 59
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2012 Shepard & Dark Actor Self (archive footage) 59
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2012 The Vow Actor Rita Thornton 70
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2011 American Horror Story: Murder House Actor Constance Langdon N/A
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2009 Grey Gardens Actor Big Edie 61
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2008 A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' Actor Self 58
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2007 Sybil Actor Dr. Cornelia Wilbur 59
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2006 Bonneville Actor Arvilla Holden 58
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2005 The Peace! Actor Self 58
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2005 Neverwas Actor Katherine Pierson 59
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2005 Don't Come Knocking Actor Doreen 59
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2005 Broken Flowers Actor Carmen 66
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2003 Big Fish Actor Sandra Bloom (senior) 76
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2003 Masked and Anonymous Actor Nina Veronica 58
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2003 Normal Actor Irma Applewood 59
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2001 The Making of 'Cape Fear' Actor Self 59
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2001 Prozac Nation Actor Mrs. Wurtzel 60
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2001 A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances Actor Herself N/A
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1999 Titus Actor Tamora 61
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1998 Cousin Bette Actor Cousin Bette 58
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1998 Hush Actor Martha Baring 57
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1997 A Thousand Acres Actor Ginny Cook Smith 58
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1995 A Streetcar Named Desire Actor Blanche DuBois 59
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1995 Rob Roy Actor Mary MacGregor 63
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1995 Losing Isaiah Actor Margaret Lewin 59
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1994 Blue Sky Actor Carly Marshall 59
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1992 Night and the City Actor Helen Nasseros 58
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1992 O Pioneers! Actor Alexandra Bergson 59
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1991 Cape Fear Actor Leigh Bowden 71
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1990 Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond Actor Self - Host 59
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1990 Men Don't Leave Actor Beth Macauley 59
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1989 Music Box Actor Ann Talbot 61
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1988 Far North Actor Kate 59
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1988 Everybody's All-American Actor Babs Rogers Grey 58
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1986 King Kong Lives Actor Dwan (archive footage) 56
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1986 Crimes of the Heart Actor Meg Magrath 59
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1985 Sweet Dreams Actor Patsy Cline 59
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1984 Country Actor Jewell Ivy 59
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1984 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Actor Maggie 58
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1983 Notre Dame de la Croisette Actor Self (uncredited) 59
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1982 Tootsie Actor Julie Nichols 69
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1982 Frances Actor Frances Farmer 60
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1981 The Postman Always Rings Twice Actor Cora Papadakis 61
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1980 How to Beat the High Cost of Living Actor Louise 58
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1979 All That Jazz Actor Angelique 67
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1976 King Kong Actor Dwan 60
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Long Day's Journey Into Night Actor Mary Tyrone N/A
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The Year of Magical Thinking Actor Joan Didion N/A
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Production

2025 The Great Lillian Hall Production Executive Producer 58
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1984 Country Production Producer 59
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