Jessica Lange
Date of birth: 1949-04-20
Place of birth: Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Jessica Phyllis Lange, جسیکا لنگ
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 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.
Movie Credits
Broken Flowers
2005-07-31
Introverted Don Johnston receives an anonymous letter from an ex-lover informing him that he has a s
Big Fish
2003-12-25
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall
Cape Fear
1991-11-13
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting,
Music Box
1989-12-22
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
Frances
1982-12-03
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life t
Don't Come Knocking
2005-08-25
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his
King Kong
1976-09-08
An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to explo
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1984-08-19
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual
Shepard & Dark
2012-09-11
An indelible portrait of the complex relationship between playwright and actor Sam Shepard and his c
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981-03-20
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair
Long Day's Journey into Night
2025-02-27
Over the course of a day, a married couple, Mary and James Tyrone, and their two sons, Jamie and Edm
Neverwas
2005-09-09
Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the
Rob Roy
1995-04-13
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future,
Masked and Anonymous
2003-07-25
A nation wracked with civil war and social unrest anticipates a giant charity concert, organized by
Tootsie
1982-12-17
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Micha
Everybody's All-American
1988-11-04
Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-
Sybil
2007-05-28
A true story of a young woman whose abusive childhood results in her developing a multiple personali
Titus
1999-12-25
Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S
Marlowe
2023-02-15
Private detective Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in an investigation involving a wealthy Californi
Losing Isaiah
1995-03-17
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while hi
Country
1984-09-29
Jewell and Gil are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus
Night and the City
1992-10-16
Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing pro
Sweet Dreams
1985-10-02
The story of Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at
Prozac Nation
2001-09-08
When talented young writer Elizabeth Wurtzel earns a scholarship to Harvard, she sees it as her chan
Bonneville
2006-09-11
Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden enlists her two best friends and sets off in a
All That Jazz
1979-12-16
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in mus
Hush
1998-03-06
Jackson and Helen are in love and about to have their first child when they move in with Jackson's m
A Thousand Acres
1997-09-19
The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath the
Crimes of the Heart
1986-12-12
Three sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.
Normal
2003-01-21
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
Cousin Bette
1998-06-12
In 19th century Paris, Bette Fischer, a poor and homely spinster, forms an alliance with the seducti
Grey Gardens
2009-06-21
Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis raised as Park Av
The Vow
2012-02-05
Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a lif
Men Don't Leave
1990-02-02
A widowed mother and her two sons move to Baltimore and struggle to adjust to urban life, encounteri
Blue Sky
1994-09-16
Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assign
O Pioneers!
1992-02-02
A young woman inherits her father's farm after he dies. Over the years, she overcomes challenges and
Far North
1988-11-09
After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope w
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001-09-18
A retrospective documentary on the making of Cape Fear (1991) and Cape Fear (1962).
The Peace!
2005-09-20
Amid an escalating war in Iraq, rising terror levels and the threat of nuclear attack, a growing bod
A Streetcar Named Desire
1995-10-24
A fading Southern Belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law t
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
1980-07-11
In order to beat inflation and subsidize their alimony checks, three suburban housewives plot to ste
In Secret
2014-02-21
In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by h
Notre Dame de la Croisette
1983-02-23
A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on t
The Gambler
2014-12-25
Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker,
The Great Lillian Hall
2024-06-30
Lillian Hall, a Broadway actress, has never missed a performance throughout her long, illustrious ca
The Year of Magical Thinking
Adaptation of Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking".
Wild Oats
2016-09-22
Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for
King Kong Lives
1986-12-16
After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
2008-02-05
Documentary about the making of the 1982 film, featuring interviews with the cast and crew.
Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story
2012-09-25
In this video-short go behind the scenes with the cast of "American Horror Story" on how the show is
A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances
2001-01-01
The making of FRANCES, a retrospective documentary.
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
1990-10-22
The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depres
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
2018-09-13
Sex Fashion and Disco is a documentary film concerning Antonio Lopez (1943-1987), the most influenti
Scorsese's Women
2014-09-10
Five amazing actresses who have starred in Martin Scorsese's films come together in imaginary cinema
Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines
2004-01-01
The work of women peace-builders in five countries, including Afghanistan, Burundi, Bosnia, Argentin
Inside Look: Feud - Bette and Joan
2017-03-13
An inside look at the making of Feud: Bette and Joan.