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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Known For

Long Day's Journey into Night
Mary Tyrone
2025

The Great Lillian Hall
Lillian Hall
2024

Marlowe
Dorothy Quincannon
2023

The Politician
Dusty Jackson · (8 episodes)
2019

Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
Self
2018

FEUD
Joan Crawford · (8 episodes)
2017

FEUD
Lillie Mae Faulk · (2 episodes)
2017

Wild Oats
Maddie
2016

Horace and Pete
Marsha · (10 episodes)
2016

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · (2 episodes)
2015

The Gambler
Roberta
2014

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · (1 episode)
2014

Scorsese's Women
Star
2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · (1 episode)
2014

In Secret
Madame Raquin
2013
Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story
Self
2012

Shepard & Dark
Self (archive footage)
2012

The Vow
Rita Thornton
2012

American Horror Story
Fiona Goode · (13 episodes)
2011

American Horror Story
Constance Langdon · (14 episodes)
2011

American Horror Story
Sister Jude Martin · (13 episodes)
2011

American Horror Story
Elsa Mars · (13 episodes)
2011

Grey Gardens
Big Edie
2009

A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
Self
2008

Sybil
Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
2007

Bonneville
Arvilla Holden
2006
The Peace!
Self
2005

Neverwas
Katherine Pierson
2005

Don't Come Knocking
Doreen
2005

Broken Flowers
Carmen
2005
Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines
Self - Narrator (voice)
2004

Big Fish
Sandra Bloom (senior)
2003

Masked and Anonymous
Nina Veronica
2003

Normal
Irma Applewood
2003

The Making of 'Cape Fear'
Self
2001

Prozac Nation
Mrs. Wurtzel
2001

A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances
Herself
2001

Titus
Tamora
1999

Cousin Bette
Cousin Bette
1998

Hush
Martha Baring
1998

A Thousand Acres
Ginny Cook Smith
1997

The View
Self · (2 episodes)
1997

A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche DuBois
1995

Rob Roy
Mary MacGregor
1995

Losing Isaiah
Margaret Lewin
1995

Blue Sky
Carly Marshall
1994

Inside the Actors Studio
Self · (1 episode)
1994

Intimate Portrait
Self · (1 episode)
1993

Night and the City
Helen Nasseros
1992
O Pioneers!
Alexandra Bergson
1992

Cape Fear
Leigh Bowden
1991

Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
Self - Host
1990

Men Don't Leave
Beth Macauley
1990

Music Box
Ann Talbot
1989

Far North
Kate
1988

Everybody's All-American
Babs Rogers Grey
1988

King Kong Lives
Dwan (archive footage)
1986

Crimes of the Heart
Meg Magrath
1986

Sweet Dreams
Patsy Cline
1985

Country
Jewell Ivy
1984

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Maggie
1984

Notre Dame de la Croisette
Self (uncredited)
1983

Tootsie
Julie Nichols
1982

Frances
Frances Farmer
1982

The Postman Always Rings Twice
Cora Papadakis
1981

How to Beat the High Cost of Living
Louise
1980

All That Jazz
Angelique
1979

King Kong
Dwan
1976
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion

Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
Self (archive footage)

The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self · (1 episode)
1973

The Oscars
Self · (3 episodes)
1953

Today
Self · (1 episode)
1952

Hallmark Hall of Fame
Alexandra Bergson · (1 episode)
1951

Bambi-Verleihung
Self · (1 episode)
1948