Jessica Lange
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1949-04-20 (75 years old)
Place of Birth Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
Also Known As Τζέσικα Λανγκ, Jessica Phyllis Lange
Jessica Lange
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Lange, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Actor
as Mary Tyrone
as Joan Didion
as Lillian Hall
as Dorothy Quincannon
as Dusty Jackson
as Joan Crawford
as Lillie Mae Faulk
as Maddie
as Marsha
as Roberta
as Self
as Self
as Madame Raquin
as Self (archive footage)
as Rita Thornton
as Fiona Goode
as Constance Langdon
as Sister Jude Martin
as Elsa Mars
as Big Edie
as Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
as Arvilla Holden
as Self
as Katherine Pierson
as Doreen
as Carmen
as Sandra Bloom (senior)
as Nina Veronica
as Irma Applewood
as Self
as Mrs. Wurtzel
as Herself
as Tamora
as Cousin Bette
as Martha Baring
as Ginny Cook Smith
as Self
as Blanche DuBois
as Mary MacGregor
as Margaret Lewin
as Carly Marshall
as Self
as Self
as Helen Nasseros
as Alexandra Bergson
as Leigh Bowden
as Self - Host
as Beth Macauley
as Ann Talbot
as Kate
as Babs Rogers Grey
as Dwan (archive footage)
as Meg Magrath
as Patsy Cline
as Jewell Ivy
as Maggie
as Self (uncredited)
as Julie Nichols
as Frances Farmer
as Cora Papadakis
as Louise
as Angelique
as Dwan
as Self
as Self
as Alexandra Bergson
as Self