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Jessica Lange

Actor, ProducerBorn April 20, 1949 (75 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
  • Men Don't Leave
Known For
  • American Horror Story
  • Big Fish
  • Tootsie
  • Cape Fear
  • The Vow
  • Feud
  • Broken Flowers
  • King Kong
  • Rob Roy
  • Blue Sky
  • Hush
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice
  • The Gambler
  • Music Box
  • Frances
  • Titus
  • Grey Gardens
  • All That Jazz
  • Losing Isaiah
  • Sweet Dreams
  • Marlowe
  • Don't Come Knocking
  • A Thousand Acres
  • In Secret

Filmography

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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