1949-04-20 ( 75 years old ) in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
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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Movies
Long Day's Journey into Night
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The Great Lillian Hall
2024-06-30
Marlowe
2023-02-15
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
2018-09-13
Wild Oats
2016-09-22
The Gambler
2014-12-25
Scorsese's Women
2014-09-10
In Secret
2013-09-17
Shepard & Dark
2012-09-11
The Vow
2012-02-05
Grey Gardens
2009-06-21
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
2008-02-05
Sybil
2007-05-28
Bonneville
2006-09-11
The Peace!
2005-09-20
Neverwas
2005-09-09
Don't Come Knocking
2005-08-25
Broken Flowers
2005-07-31
Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines
2004-01-01
Big Fish
2003-12-25
Masked and Anonymous
2003-07-25
Normal
2003-01-21
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001-09-18
Prozac Nation
2001-09-08
A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances
2001-01-01
Titus
1999-12-25
Cousin Bette
1998-06-12
Hush
1998-03-06
A Thousand Acres
1997-09-19
A Streetcar Named Desire
1995-10-24
Rob Roy
1995-04-13
Losing Isaiah
1995-03-17
Blue Sky
1994-09-16
Night and the City
1992-10-16
O Pioneers!
1992-02-02
Cape Fear
1991-11-13
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
1990-10-22
Men Don't Leave
1990-02-02
Music Box
1989-12-22
Far North
1988-11-09
Everybody's All-American
1988-11-04
King Kong Lives
1986-12-16
Crimes of the Heart
1986-12-12
Sweet Dreams
1985-10-02
Country
1984-09-29
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1984-08-19
Notre Dame de la Croisette
1983-02-23
Tootsie
1982-12-17
Frances
1982-12-03
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981-03-20
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
1980-07-11
All That Jazz
1979-12-16
King Kong
1976-09-08
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