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 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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.8801 |
| Birthday | 1949-04-20 |
| Place of Birth | Cloquet, Minnesota, USA |
| Also Known As | Jessica Phyllis Lange, جسیکا لنگ, |
2005
Broken Flowers
6.941/1470
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2003
Big Fish
7.757/7715
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1991
Cape Fear
7.3/3824
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1989
Music Box
7.1/174
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
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Music Box
1982
Frances
6.864/121
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
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Frances
2005
Don't Come Knocking
6.185/138
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and y...
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Don't Come Knocking
1976
King Kong
6.28/914
An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.
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1984
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
5.6/12
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2012
Shepard & Dark
5.5/10
An indelible portrait of the complex relationship between playwright and actor Sam Shepard and his close friend Johnny Dark as they prepare forty year...
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
6.505/554
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
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Long Day's Journey into Night
10/1
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2005
Neverwas
6.391/137
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Neverwas
1995
Rob Roy
6.704/702
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Rob Roy
2003
Masked and Anonymous
5.086/58
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1982
Tootsie
7.201/1909
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1988
Everybody's All-American
5.3/47
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Everybody's All-American
2007
Sybil
6.492/60
A true story of a young woman whose abusive childhood results in her developing a multiple personality disorder.
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Sybil
1999
Titus
6.4/284
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Titus
2023
Marlowe
5.706/430
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Marlowe
1995
Losing Isaiah
6.486/104
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Losing Isaiah
1984
Country
6.4/33
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1992
Night and the City
5.7/78
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1985
Sweet Dreams
6.475/61
The story of Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.
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Sweet Dreams
2003
Prozac Nation
6.324/332
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Prozac Nation
2006
Bonneville
5.6/63
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Bonneville
1979
All That Jazz
7.484/590
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1998
Hush
5.7/324
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Hush
1997
A Thousand Acres
5.7/77
The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.
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1986
Crimes of the Heart
6.051/69
Three sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.
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Crimes of the Heart
2003
Normal
6.6/39
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
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1998
Cousin Bette
5.5/46
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Cousin Bette
2009
Grey Gardens
6.8/150
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Grey Gardens
2012
The Vow
7.229/4227
Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost th...
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The Vow
1990
Men Don't Leave
6.3/33
A widowed mother and her two sons move to Baltimore and struggle to adjust to urban life, encountering numerous eccentric characters along the way.
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1994
Blue Sky
6.1/150
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1992
O Pioneers!
5.4/5
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1988
Far North
6.3/7
After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope with their original issues.
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2001
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
7.3/18
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2005
The Peace!
5/1
Amid an escalating war in Iraq, rising terror levels and the threat of nuclear attack, a growing body of intellectuals, religious leaders and communit...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
7.1/22
A fading Southern Belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.
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1980
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
5/30
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How to Beat the High Cost of Living
2014
In Secret
6.099/252
In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her...
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Notre Dame de la Croisette
6/1
A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.
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The Gambler
6.021/1546
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The Great Lillian Hall
7/26
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The Year of Magical Thinking
0/0
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Wild Oats
6.2/95
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King Kong Lives
5.215/254
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2008
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
6/3
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2012
Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story
9/16
In this video-short go behind the scenes with the cast of "American Horror Story" on how the show is made.
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Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story
2001
A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances
0/0
The making of FRANCES, a retrospective documentary.
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1990
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
10/1
The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depression but always remained a star.
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Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
7/10
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2014
Scorsese's Women
0/0
Five amazing actresses who have starred in Martin Scorsese's films come together in imaginary cinematic scenarios. Each leading lady has her own myste...
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Scorsese's Women
2004
Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines
0/0
The work of women peace-builders in five countries, including Afghanistan, Burundi, Bosnia, Argentina and the U.S.
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