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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 20, 1949
Place of Birth
Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
Also Known As
- Jessica Phyllis Lange
- جسیکا لنگ
Jessica Lange
2.3 Popularity
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
10.0
Mary Tyrone
Long Day's Journey into Night
2025
6.9
Lillian Hall
The Great Lillian Hall
2024
5.7
Dorothy Quincannon
Marlowe
2023
7.0
Dusty Jackson
The Politician
2019
7.0
Self
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
2018
6.0
Self
Inside Look: Feud - Bette and Joan
2017
7.6
Joan Crawford
FEUD
2017
7.6
Lillie Mae Faulk
FEUD
2017
6.2
Maddie
Wild Oats
2016
7.7
Marsha
Horace and Pete
2016
Credits
Long Day's Journey into Night
as Mary Tyrone
2025
10.0
The Great Lillian Hall
as Lillian Hall
2024
6.9
Marlowe
as Dorothy Quincannon
2023
5.7
The Politician
as Dusty Jackson
2019
7.0
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
as Self
2018
7.0
Inside Look: Feud - Bette and Joan
as Self
2017
6.0
FEUD
as Joan Crawford
2017
7.6
FEUD
as Lillie Mae Faulk
2017
7.6
Wild Oats
as Maddie
2016
6.2
Horace and Pete
as Marsha
2016
7.7
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
6.2
The Gambler
as Roberta
2014
6.0
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
Scorsese's Women
as Star
2014
0.0
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
In Secret
as Madame Raquin
2014
6.1
🎬
Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story
as Self
2012
9.2
Shepard & Dark
as Self (archive footage)
2012
5.5
The Vow
as Rita Thornton
2012
7.2
American Horror Story
as Fiona Goode
2011
8.1
American Horror Story
as Constance Langdon
2011
8.1
American Horror Story
as Sister Jude Martin
2011
8.1
American Horror Story
as Elsa Mars
2011
8.1
Grey Gardens
as Big Edie
2009
6.8
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
as Self
2008
6.0
Sybil
as Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
2007
6.5
Bonneville
as Arvilla Holden
2006
5.6
🎬
The Peace!
as Self
2005
5.0
Neverwas
as Katherine Pierson
2005
6.4
Don't Come Knocking
as Doreen
2005
6.2
Broken Flowers
as Carmen
2005
6.9
🎬
Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2004
0.0
Big Fish
as Sandra Bloom (senior)
2003
7.8
Masked and Anonymous
as Nina Veronica
2003
5.0
Normal
as Irma Applewood
2003
6.6
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
as Self
2001
7.3
Prozac Nation
as Mrs. Wurtzel
2001
6.3
A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances
as Herself
2001
0.0
Titus
as Tamora
1999
6.4
Cousin Bette
as Cousin Bette
1998
5.5
Hush
as Martha Baring
1998
5.7
A Thousand Acres
as Ginny Cook Smith
1997
5.7
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
A Streetcar Named Desire
as Blanche DuBois
1995
7.1
Rob Roy
as Mary MacGregor
1995
6.7
Losing Isaiah
as Margaret Lewin
1995
6.5
Blue Sky
as Carly Marshall
1994
6.1
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993
4.5
Night and the City
as Helen Nasseros
1992
5.7
O Pioneers!
as Alexandra Bergson
1992
5.4
Cape Fear
as Leigh Bowden
1991
7.3
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
as Self - Host
1990
10.0
Men Don't Leave
as Beth Macauley
1990
6.3
Music Box
as Ann Talbot
1989
7.1
Far North
as Kate
1988
6.3
Everybody's All-American
as Babs Rogers Grey
1988
5.3
King Kong Lives
as Dwan (archive footage)
1986
5.1
Crimes of the Heart
as Meg Magrath
1986
6.0
Sweet Dreams
as Patsy Cline
1985
6.4
🎬
Hollywood '84
as Self
1984
0.0
Country
as Jewell Ivy
1984
6.4
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
as Maggie
1984
5.6
Notre Dame de la Croisette
as Self (uncredited)
1983
6.0
Tootsie
as Julie Nichols
1982
7.2
Frances
as Frances Farmer
1982
6.9
The Postman Always Rings Twice
as Cora Papadakis
1981
6.5
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
as Louise
1980
5.0
All That Jazz
as Angelique
1979
7.5
King Kong
as Dwan
1976
6.3
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Today
as Self
1952
5.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Alexandra Bergson
1951
8.6
Bambi
as Self
1948
9.0
🎬
The Year of Magical Thinking
as Joan Didion
N/A
0.0