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Jessica Lange

Jessica Lange

Birthday: 1949-04-20 | Place of Birth: Cloquet, Minnesota, USA

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.[14] 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Lange, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2016
Horace and Pete

as    Marsha

2014
In Secret

as    Madame Raquin

2014
The Gambler

as    Roberta

2012
The Vow

as    Rita Thornton

2009
Grey Gardens

as    Big Edie

2008
Bonneville

as    Arvilla Holden

2006
Don't Come Knocking

as    Doreen

2005
Broken Flowers

as    Carmen

2005
Neverwas

as    Katherine Pierson

2003
Normal

as    Irma Applewood

2003
Prozac Nation

as    Mrs. Wurtzel

2003
Masked and Anonymous

as    Nina Veronica

2003
Big Fish

as    Sandra Bloom (senior)

2001
The Making of 'Cape Fear'

as    Self

1999
Titus

as    Tamora

1998
Cousin Bette

as    Cousin Bette

1998
Hush

as    Martha Baring

1997
A Thousand Acres

as    Ginny Cook Smith

1995
Losing Isaiah

as    Margaret Lewin

1995
Rob Roy

as    Mary MacGregor

1994
Blue Sky

as    Carly Marshall

1992
O Pioneers!

as    Alexandra Bergson

1992
Night and the City

as    Helen Nasseros

1991
Cape Fear

as    Leigh Bowden

1990
Men Don't Leave

as    Beth Macauley

1988
Everybody's All-American

as    Babs Rogers Grey

1986
Crimes of the Heart

as    Meg Magrath

1985
Sweet Dreams

as    Patsy Cline