Jessica Lange
Known for Acting · 76 credits
- Born
- 1949-04-20 (age 77)
- Place of birth
- Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
- 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.
Known For
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest
American Horror Story
2011
as Fiona Goode / Constance Langdon / Sister Jude Martin / Elsa Mars
The View
1997
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest
TV Shows (20)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest
American Horror Story
2011
as Fiona Goode / Constance Langdon / Sister Jude Martin / Elsa Mars
The View
1997
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self
Bambi
1948
as Self
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Today
1952
as Self
FEUD
2017
as Joan Crawford / Lillie Mae Faulk
The Politician
2019
as Dusty Jackson
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self
Horace and Pete
2016
as Marsha
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Alexandra Bergson
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Hollywood '84
1984
as Self
Movies (56)
Big Fish
2003
as Sandra Bloom (senior)
The Gambler
2014
as Roberta
Cape Fear
1991
as Leigh Bowden
The Vow
2012
as Rita Thornton
In Secret
2014
as Madame Raquin
Tootsie
1982
as Julie Nichols
King Kong
1976
as Dwan
Titus
1999
as Tamora
Marlowe
2023
as Dorothy Quincannon
Rob Roy
1995
as Mary MacGregor
Blue Sky
1994
as Carly Marshall
All That Jazz
1979
as Angelique
Broken Flowers
2005
as Carmen
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981
as Cora Papadakis
King Kong Lives
1986
as Dwan (archive footage)
Losing Isaiah
1995
as Margaret Lewin
Frances
1982
as Frances Farmer
Prozac Nation
2003
as Mrs. Wurtzel
Music Box
1989
as Ann Talbot
Wild Oats
2016
as Maddie
Hush
1998
as Martha Baring
O Pioneers!
1992
as Alexandra Bergson
Masked and Anonymous
2003
as Nina Veronica
Neverwas
2005
as Katherine Pierson
Country
1984
as Jewell Ivy
A Thousand Acres
1997
as Ginny Cook Smith
Cousin Bette
1998
as Cousin Bette
Grey Gardens
2009
as Big Edie
A Streetcar Named Desire
1995
as Blanche DuBois
Don't Come Knocking
2005
as Doreen
Sweet Dreams
1985
as Patsy Cline
Night and the City
1992
as Helen Nasseros
Everybody's All-American
1988
as Babs Rogers Grey
Normal
2003
as Irma Applewood
Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story
2012
as Self
The Great Lillian Hall
2024
as Lillian Hall
Bonneville
2006
as Arvilla Holden
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
1980
as Louise
Shepard & Dark
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Sybil
2007
as Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
Crimes of the Heart
1986
as Meg Magrath
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
1990
as Self - Host
The Peace!
2005
as Self
Scorsese's Women
2014
as Star
Long Day's Journey into Night
2025
as Mary Tyrone
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001
as Self
Men Don't Leave
1990
as Beth Macauley
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1984
as Maggie
Far North
1988
as Kate
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
2018
as Self
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
2008
as Self
Notre Dame de la Croisette
1983
as Self (uncredited)
The Making of 'Tootsie'
1982
as Self
A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances
2001
as Herself
Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines
2004
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Year of Magical Thinking
as Joan Didion
About Jessica Lange
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 1… With 76 credits spanning from 1948 to 2025, Jessica Lange has appeared in 56 films and 20 TV shows.
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- Big Fish (2003) — as Sandra Bloom (senior)
- The Gambler (2014) — as Roberta
- Cape Fear (1991) — as Leigh Bowden
- The Vow (2012) — as Rita Thornton
- In Secret (2014) — as Madame Raquin
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