Jessica Lange

Born

April 20, 1949 (76 years old)

Known For

Acting

Place of Birth

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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Long Day's Journey into Night

Long Day's Journey into Night

Mary Tyrone

0.0

2025

The Great Lillian Hall

The Great Lillian Hall

Lillian Hall

6.7

2024

Marlowe

Marlowe

Dorothy Quincannon

5.8

2023

The Politician

The Politician

Dusty Jackson · (8 episodes)

7.0

2019

Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco

Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco

Self

7.0

2018

FEUD

FEUD

Joan Crawford · (8 episodes)

7.7

2017

FEUD

FEUD

Lillie Mae Faulk · (2 episodes)

7.7

2017

Wild Oats

Wild Oats

Maddie

6.2

2016

Horace and Pete

Horace and Pete

Marsha · (10 episodes)

7.7

2016

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Self · (2 episodes)

5.7

2015

The Gambler

The Gambler

Roberta

6.0

2014

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Self · (1 episode)

5.0

2014

Scorsese's Women

Scorsese's Women

Star

0.0

2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self · (1 episode)

5.3

2014

In Secret

In Secret

Madame Raquin

6.1

2013

Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story

Self

9.2

2012

Shepard & Dark

Shepard & Dark

Self (archive footage)

5.9

2012

The Vow

The Vow

Rita Thornton

7.2

2012

American Horror Story

American Horror Story

Fiona Goode · (13 episodes)

8.1

2011

American Horror Story

American Horror Story

Constance Langdon · (14 episodes)

8.1

2011

American Horror Story

American Horror Story

Sister Jude Martin · (13 episodes)

8.1

2011

American Horror Story

American Horror Story

Elsa Mars · (13 episodes)

8.1

2011

Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens

Big Edie

6.9

2009

A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'

A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'

Self

6.0

2008

Sybil

Sybil

Dr. Cornelia Wilbur

6.5

2007

Bonneville

Bonneville

Arvilla Holden

5.6

2006

The Peace!

Self

5.0

2005

Neverwas

Neverwas

Katherine Pierson

6.4

2005

Don't Come Knocking

Don't Come Knocking

Doreen

6.2

2005

Broken Flowers

Broken Flowers

Carmen

6.9

2005

Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines

Self - Narrator (voice)

0.0

2004

Big Fish

Big Fish

Sandra Bloom (senior)

7.8

2003

Masked and Anonymous

Masked and Anonymous

Nina Veronica

5.0

2003

Normal

Normal

Irma Applewood

6.8

2003

The Making of 'Cape Fear'

The Making of 'Cape Fear'

Self

7.3

2001

Prozac Nation

Prozac Nation

Mrs. Wurtzel

6.3

2001

A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances

A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances

Herself

0.0

2001

Titus

Titus

Tamora

6.5

1999

Cousin Bette

Cousin Bette

Cousin Bette

5.7

1998

Hush

Hush

Martha Baring

5.7

1998

A Thousand Acres

A Thousand Acres

Ginny Cook Smith

5.8

1997

The View

The View

Self · (2 episodes)

4.5

1997

A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire

Blanche DuBois

7.0

1995

Rob Roy

Rob Roy

Mary MacGregor

6.7

1995

Losing Isaiah

Losing Isaiah

Margaret Lewin

6.4

1995

Blue Sky

Blue Sky

Carly Marshall

6.1

1994

Inside the Actors Studio

Inside the Actors Studio

Self · (1 episode)

7.5

1994

Intimate Portrait

Intimate Portrait

Self · (1 episode)

4.5

1993

Night and the City

Night and the City

Helen Nasseros

5.7

1992

O Pioneers!

Alexandra Bergson

5.4

1992

Cape Fear

Cape Fear

Leigh Bowden

7.3

1991

Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond

Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond

Self - Host

10.0

1990

Men Don't Leave

Men Don't Leave

Beth Macauley

6.5

1990

Music Box

Music Box

Ann Talbot

7.1

1989

Far North

Far North

Kate

6.3

1988

Everybody's All-American

Everybody's All-American

Babs Rogers Grey

5.4

1988

King Kong Lives

King Kong Lives

Dwan (archive footage)

5.1

1986

Crimes of the Heart

Crimes of the Heart

Meg Magrath

6.0

1986

Sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams

Patsy Cline

6.5

1985

Country

Country

Jewell Ivy

6.4

1984

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Maggie

5.5

1984

Notre Dame de la Croisette

Notre Dame de la Croisette

Self (uncredited)

6.0

1983

Tootsie

Tootsie

Julie Nichols

7.2

1982

Frances

Frances

Frances Farmer

6.9

1982

The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Cora Papadakis

6.5

1981

How to Beat the High Cost of Living

How to Beat the High Cost of Living

Louise

5.1

1980

All That Jazz

All That Jazz

Angelique

7.5

1979

King Kong

King Kong

Dwan

6.3

1976

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

0.0

Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life

Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life

Self (archive footage)

0.0

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Self · (1 episode)

6.3

1973

The Oscars

The Oscars

Self · (3 episodes)

7.1

1953

Today

Today

Self · (1 episode)

5.8

1952

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Alexandra Bergson · (1 episode)

8.6

1951

Bambi-Verleihung

Bambi-Verleihung

Self · (1 episode)

9.0

1948