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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Lange, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · The Great Lillian Hall as Lillian Hall
- 2023 · Marlowe as Dorothy Quincannon
- 2019 · The Politician as Dusty Jackson
- 2018 · Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco as Self
- 2017 · FEUD as Joan Crawford
- 2017 · FEUD as Lillie Mae Faulk
- 2016 · Wild Oats as Maddie
- 2016 · Horace and Pete as Marsha
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2014 · The Gambler as Roberta
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2013 · In Secret as Madame Raquin
- 2012 · Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story as Self
- 2012 · Shepard & Dark as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · The Vow as Rita Thornton
- 2011 · American Horror Story as Fiona Goode
- 2011 · American Horror Story as Constance Langdon
- 2011 · American Horror Story as Sister Jude Martin
- 2011 · American Horror Story as Elsa Mars
- 2009 · Grey Gardens as Big Edie
- 2008 · A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' as Self
- 2007 · Sybil as Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
- 2006 · Bonneville as Arvilla Holden
- 2005 · The Peace! as Self
- 2005 · Neverwas as Katherine Pierson
- 2005 · Don't Come Knocking as Doreen
- 2005 · Broken Flowers as Carmen
- 2003 · Big Fish as Sandra Bloom (senior)
- 2003 · Masked and Anonymous as Nina Veronica
- 2003 · Normal as Irma Applewood
- 2001 · The Making of 'Cape Fear' as Self
- 2001 · Prozac Nation as Mrs. Wurtzel
- 2001 · A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances as Herself
- 1999 · Titus as Tamora
- 1998 · Cousin Bette as Cousin Bette
- 1998 · Hush as Martha Baring
- 1997 · A Thousand Acres as Ginny Cook Smith
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1995 · A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois
- 1995 · Rob Roy as Mary MacGregor
- 1995 · Losing Isaiah as Margaret Lewin
- 1994 · Blue Sky as Carly Marshall
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1993 · Intimate Portrait as Self
- 1992 · Night and the City as Helen Nasseros
- 1992 · O Pioneers! as Alexandra Bergson
- 1991 · Cape Fear as Leigh Bowden
- 1990 · Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond as Self - Host
- 1990 · Men Don't Leave as Beth Macauley
- 1989 · Music Box as Ann Talbot
- 1988 · Far North as Kate
- 1988 · Everybody's All-American as Babs Rogers Grey
- 1986 · King Kong Lives as Dwan (archive footage)
- 1986 · Crimes of the Heart as Meg Magrath
- 1985 · Sweet Dreams as Patsy Cline
- 1984 · Country as Jewell Ivy
- 1984 · Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Maggie
- 1983 · Notre Dame de la Croisette as Self (uncredited)
- 1982 · Tootsie as Julie Nichols
- 1982 · Frances as Frances Farmer
- 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 · The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self - Presenter
- 1952 · Today as Self
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Alexandra Bergson
- 1948 · Bambi Awards as Self
- Future · Long Day's Journey Into Night as Mary Tyrone
- Future · The Year of Magical Thinking as Joan Didion