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Jessica Lange

Jessica Lange

Known For Acting
Birthday Apr 20, 1949 (76)
Birthplace Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
Popularity 1 (history)
Updated Jul 13, 2025 (Update)
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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 profes ... sional 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.

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Filmography

Long Day's Journey into Night

Long Day's Journey into Night

2025

as Mary Tyrone

The Great Lillian Hall

The Great Lillian Hall

2024

as Lillian Hall

Marlowe

Marlowe

2023

as Dorothy Quincannon

Wild Oats

Wild Oats

2016

as Maddie

The Gambler

The Gambler

2014

as Roberta

In Secret

In Secret

2013

as Madame Raquin

The Vow

The Vow

2012

as Rita Thornton

Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens

2009

as Big Edie

Sybil

Sybil

2007

as Dr. Cornelia Wilbur

Bonneville

Bonneville

2006

as Arvilla Holden

Don't Come Knocking

Don't Come Knocking

2005

as Doreen

Broken Flowers

Broken Flowers

2005

as Carmen

Neverwas

Neverwas

2005

as Katherine Pierson

Normal

Normal

2003

as Irma Applewood

Big Fish

Big Fish

2003

as Sandra Bloom (senior)

Masked and Anonymous

Masked and Anonymous

2003

as Nina Veronica

Prozac Nation

Prozac Nation

2001

as Mrs. Wurtzel

Titus

Titus

1999

as Tamora

Hush

Hush

1998

as Martha Baring

Cousin Bette

Cousin Bette

1998

as Cousin Bette

A Thousand Acres

A Thousand Acres

1997

as Ginny Cook Smith

Losing Isaiah

Losing Isaiah

1995

as Margaret Lewin

Rob Roy

Rob Roy

1995

as Mary MacGregor

A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire

1995

as Blanche DuBois

Blue Sky

Blue Sky

1994

as Carly Marshall

O Pioneers!

O Pioneers!

1992

as Alexandra Bergson

Night and the City

Night and the City

1992

as Helen Nasseros

Cape Fear

Cape Fear

1991

as Leigh Bowden

Men Don't Leave

Men Don't Leave

1990

as Beth Macauley

Music Box

Music Box

1989

as Ann Talbot

Far North

Far North

1988

as Kate

Everybody's All-American

Everybody's All-American

1988

as Babs Rogers Grey

Crimes of the Heart

Crimes of the Heart

1986

as Meg Magrath

King Kong Lives

King Kong Lives

1986

as Dwan (archive footage)

Sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams

1985

as Patsy Cline

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1984

as Maggie

Country

Country

1984

as Jewell Ivy

Frances

Frances

1982

as Frances Farmer

Tootsie

Tootsie

1982

as Julie Nichols

The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice

1981

as Cora Papadakis

All That Jazz

All That Jazz

1979

as Angelique

King Kong

King Kong

1976

as Dwan

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The Great Lillian Hall

The Great Lillian Hall

2024

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Country

Country

1984

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Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress The World According to Garp Won
SAG Awards Best Supporting Actress A Night to Die For Nominated
Television Credits

American Horror Story

as Constance Langdon

Episodes: 14

First Aired: Oct 05, 2011

American Horror Story

as Fiona Goode

Episodes: 13

First Aired: Oct 05, 2011

American Horror Story

as Sister Jude Martin

Episodes: 13

First Aired: Oct 05, 2011

American Horror Story

as Elsa Mars

Episodes: 13

First Aired: Oct 05, 2011

Horace and Pete

as Marsha

Episodes: 10

First Aired: Jan 30, 2016

FEUD

as Joan Crawford

Episodes: 8

First Aired: Mar 05, 2017

The Politician

as Dusty Jackson

Episodes: 8

First Aired: Sep 27, 2019

FEUD

as Lillie Mae Faulk

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Mar 05, 2017

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Alexandra Bergson

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 24, 1951

The Oscars

as Self

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Mar 19, 1953

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

as Self

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Aug 02, 2015

The View

as Self

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Aug 11, 1997

Inside the Actors Studio

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 14, 1994

Today

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 14, 1952

Intimate Portrait

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 14, 1993

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 02, 1973

Bambi Awards

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 01, 1948

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 25, 2014

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 21, 2014

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