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Jessica Lange

Actor, ProducerBorn April 20, 1949 (76 years)
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 & Shows on Plex

  • Prozac Nation
  • In Secret
  • Wild Oats

Known For

  • American Horror Story
  • Big Fish
  • Tootsie
  • Cape Fear
  • The Vow
  • Feud
  • Broken Flowers
  • King Kong
  • Rob Roy
  • All That Jazz
  • Blue Sky
  • Hush
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice
  • The Gambler
  • Music Box
  • Frances
  • Titus
  • Grey Gardens
  • Losing Isaiah
  • Sweet Dreams
  • Marlowe
  • Don't Come Knocking
  • In Secret
  • A Thousand Acres

Featured Videos

    Filmography

    2025
    2024
    The Great Lillian Hall · as Lillian Hall
    2022
    Marlowe · as Dorothy Quincannon
    2019
    The Politician (TV Series) · as Dusty Jackson
    2017
    Feud (TV Series) · as Joan Crawford
    2016
    Wild Oats · as Maddie
    2016
    Horace and Pete (TV Series) · as Marsha
    2014
    The Gambler · as Roberta
    2013
    In Secret · as Madame Raquin
    2012
    The Vow · as Rita Thornton
    2011
    American Horror Story (TV Series) · as Constance Langdon
    2009
    Grey Gardens · as Big Edie
    2007
    Sybil · as Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
    2006
    Bonneville · as Arvilla Holden
    2005
    Neverwas · as Katherine Pierson
    2005
    Don't Come Knocking · as Doreen
    2005
    Broken Flowers · as Carmen
    2004
    Retrosexual: The '80s (TV Series) · as Cast
    2003
    Big Fish · as Sandra Bloom (senior)
    2003
    Masked and Anonymous · as Nina Veronica
    2003
    Normal · as Irma Applewood
    2001
    Prozac Nation · as Mrs. Wurtzel
    1999
    Titus · as Tamora
    1998
    Cousin Bette · as Cousin Bette
    1998
    Hush · as Martha Baring
    1998
    Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood (TV Series) · as The Swan Princess
    1997
    A Thousand Acres · as Ginny Cook Smith
    1995
    A Streetcar Named Desire · as Blanche Dubois
    1995
    Rob Roy · as Mary Macgregor
    1995
    Losing Isaiah · as Margaret Lewin
    1994
    Blue Sky · as Carly Marshall
    1992
    Night and the City · as Helen Nasseros
    1992
    1992
    O Pioneers! · as Alexandra Bergson
    1991
    Cape Fear · as Leigh Bowden
    1990
    Men Don't Leave · as Beth Macauley
    1989
    Music Box · as Ann Talbot
    1988
    Far North · as Kate
    1988
    Everybody's All-American · as Babs Rogers Grey
    1986
    King Kong Lives · as Dwan (archive Footage)
    1986
    Crimes of the Heart · as Meg Magrath
    1985
    Sweet Dreams · as Patsy Cline
    1984
    Country · as Jewell Ivy
    1984
    1982
    Tootsie · as Julie Nichols
    1982
    Frances · as Frances Farmer
    1981
    The Postman Always Rings Twice · as Cora Papadakis
    1980
    1980
    1979
    All That Jazz · as Angelique
    1976
    King Kong · as Dwan
    1951
    Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Alexandra Bergson

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