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Jessica Lange

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Known For

76 Years Old

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.

Born

Cloquet, Minnesota, USA on 20th April 1949

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Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
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American Horror Story
Elsa Mars
American Horror Story Image
American Horror Story
Sister Jude Martin
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American Horror Story
Constance Langdon
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American Horror Story
Fiona Goode
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The View
Self
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Bambi
Self
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Intimate Portrait
Self
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Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
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Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
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The Oscars
Self
Big Fish Image
Big Fish
Sandra Bloom (senior)
Don't Come Knocking Image
Don't Come Knocking
Doreen
FEUD Image
FEUD
Lillie Mae Faulk
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FEUD
Joan Crawford
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Cousin Bette
Cousin Bette
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In Secret
Madame Raquin
Blue Sky Image
Blue Sky
Carly Marshall
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Frances
Frances Farmer
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The Politician
Dusty Jackson
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Far North
Kate
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The Gambler
Roberta
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Shepard & Dark
Self (archive footage)
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Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
Self - Host
King Kong Lives Image
King Kong Lives
Dwan (archive footage)
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Sybil
Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
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A Thousand Acres
Ginny Cook Smith
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The Vow
Rita Thornton
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Cape Fear
Leigh Bowden
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Music Box
Ann Talbot
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Horace and Pete
Marsha
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Masked and Anonymous
Nina Veronica
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Normal
Irma Applewood
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Bonneville
Arvilla Holden
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Everybody's All-American
Babs Rogers Grey
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The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
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Today
Self
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Tootsie
Julie Nichols
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Men Don't Leave
Beth Macauley
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Neverwas
Katherine Pierson
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Marlowe
Dorothy Quincannon
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King Kong
Dwan
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Titus
Tamora
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Rob Roy
Mary MacGregor
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All That Jazz
Angelique
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O Pioneers!
Alexandra Bergson
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Broken Flowers
Carmen
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
Alexandra Bergson
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
Cora Papadakis
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Country
Jewell Ivy
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Hush
Martha Baring
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Wild Oats
Maddie
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Inside Look: Feud - Bette and Joan
Self
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The Peace!
Self
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Night and the City
Helen Nasseros
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Prozac Nation
Mrs. Wurtzel
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche DuBois
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Losing Isaiah
Margaret Lewin
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The Great Lillian Hall
Lillian Hall
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Scorsese's Women
Star
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A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances
Herself
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Grey Gardens
Big Edie
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Crimes of the Heart
Meg Magrath
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Inside the Actors Studio
Self
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Long Day's Journey into Night
Mary Tyrone
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How to Beat the High Cost of Living
Louise
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A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
Self
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Sweet Dreams
Patsy Cline
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Hollywood '84
Self
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Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
Self
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Maggie
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Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines
Self - Narrator (voice)
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The Making of 'Cape Fear'
Self
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Notre Dame de la Croisette
Self (uncredited)
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Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story
Self
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion