Jessica Lange

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

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Late Night with Seth Meyers

American Horror Story

Late Show with David Letterman

The View

All Movies (57)

Long Day's Journey into Night2025 · as Mary Tyrone
The Great Lillian Hall2024 · as Lillian Hall
Marlowe2023 · as Dorothy Quincannon
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco2018 · as Self
Wild Oats2016 · as Maddie
The Gambler2014 · as Roberta
Scorsese's Women2014 · as Star
In Secret2014 · as Madame Raquin
Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story2012 · as Self
Shepard & Dark2012 · as Self (archive footage)
The Vow2012 · as Rita Thornton
Grey Gardens2009 · as Big Edie
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'2008 · as Self
Sybil2007 · as Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
Bonneville2006 · as Arvilla Holden
The Peace!2005 · as Self
Neverwas2005 · as Katherine Pierson
El Fantasma de la Libertad o cuánto valen 3 mil toneladas de uranio empobrecido2005 · as Self
Don't Come Knocking2005 · as Doreen
Broken Flowers2005 · as Carmen
Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines2004 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Big Fish2003 · as Sandra Bloom (senior)
Masked and Anonymous2003 · as Nina Veronica
Prozac Nation2003 · as Mrs. Wurtzel
Normal2003 · as Irma Applewood
The Making of 'Cape Fear'2001 · as Self
A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances2001 · as Herself
Titus1999 · as Tamora
Cousin Bette1998 · as Cousin Bette
Hush1998 · as Martha Baring
A Thousand Acres1997 · as Ginny Cook Smith
A Streetcar Named Desire1995 · as Blanche DuBois
Rob Roy1995 · as Mary MacGregor
Losing Isaiah1995 · as Margaret Lewin
Blue Sky1994 · as Carly Marshall
Night and the City1992 · as Helen Nasseros
O Pioneers!1992 · as Alexandra Bergson
Cape Fear1991 · as Leigh Bowden
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond1990 · as Self - Host
Men Don't Leave1990 · as Beth Macauley
Music Box1989 · as Ann Talbot
Far North1988 · as Kate
Everybody's All-American1988 · as Babs Rogers Grey
King Kong Lives1986 · as Dwan (archive footage)
Crimes of the Heart1986 · as Meg Magrath
Sweet Dreams1985 · as Patsy Cline
Country1984 · as Jewell Ivy
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof1984 · as Maggie
Notre Dame de la Croisette1983 · as Self (uncredited)
Tootsie1982 · as Julie Nichols
Frances1982 · as Frances Farmer
The Making of 'Tootsie'1982 · as Self
The Postman Always Rings Twice1981 · as Cora Papadakis
How to Beat the High Cost of Living1980 · as Louise
All That Jazz1979 · as Angelique
King Kong1976 · as Dwan
The Year of Magical Thinking— · as Joan Didion

All TV Shows (24)

The Politician2019 · as Dusty Jackson
FEUD2017 · as Joan Crawford
FEUD2017 · as Lillie Mae Faulk
Horace and Pete2016 · as Marsha
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self - Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter2015 · as Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors2014 · as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self - Guest
American Horror Story2011 · as Fiona Goode
American Horror Story2011 · as Constance Langdon
American Horror Story2011 · as Sister Jude Martin
American Horror Story2011 · as Elsa Mars
The Ellen DeGeneres Show2003 · as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self - Guest
The View1997 · as Self
Inside the Actors Studio1994 · as Self
Intimate Portrait1993 · as Self
Late Show with David Letterman1993 · as Self - Guest
Hollywood '841984 · as Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...1973 · as Self
The Oscars1953 · as Self
Today1952 · as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Alexandra Bergson
Bambi1948 · as Self