Acting
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.
Filmography
Long Day's Journey into Night
Film · 2026
The Great Lillian Hall
Film · 2024
Marlowe
Film · 2023
The Politician
Series · 2019
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
Film · 2018
FEUD
Series · 2017
FEUD
Series · 2017
Wild Oats
Film · 2016
Horace and Pete
Series · 2016
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Series · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
In Secret
Film · 2014
The Gambler
Film · 2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Series · 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Series · 2014
Shepard & Dark
Film · 2012
The Vow
Film · 2012
Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story
Film · 2012
American Horror Story
Series · 2011
American Horror Story
Series · 2011
American Horror Story
Series · 2011
American Horror Story
Series · 2011
American Horror Story
Series · 2011
Grey Gardens
Film · 2009
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
Film · 2008
Sybil
Film · 2007
Bonneville
Film · 2006
Broken Flowers
Film · 2005
Don't Come Knocking
Film · 2005
Neverwas
Film · 2005
The Peace!
Film · 2005
El Fantasma de la Libertad o cuánto valen 3 mil toneladas de uranio empobrecido
Film · 2005
Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines
Film · 2004
Big Fish
Film · 2003
Masked and Anonymous
Film · 2003
Prozac Nation
Film · 2003
Normal
Film · 2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Series · 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Series · 2003
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
Film · 2001
A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances
Film · 2001
Titus
Film · 1999
Hush
Film · 1998
Cousin Bette
Film · 1998
A Thousand Acres
Film · 1997
The View
Series · 1997
Rob Roy
Film · 1995
Losing Isaiah
Film · 1995
A Streetcar Named Desire
Film · 1995
Blue Sky
Film · 1994
Inside the Actors Studio
Series · 1994
Intimate Portrait
Series · 1993
Late Show with David Letterman
Series · 1993
Night and the City
Film · 1992
O Pioneers!
Film · 1992
Cape Fear
Film · 1991
Men Don't Leave
Film · 1990
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
Film · 1990
Music Box
Film · 1989
Everybody's All-American
Film · 1988
Far North
Film · 1988
Crimes of the Heart
Film · 1986
King Kong Lives
Film · 1986
Sweet Dreams
Film · 1985
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Film · 1984
Country
Film · 1984
Hollywood '84
Series · 1984
Notre Dame de la Croisette
Film · 1983
Frances
Film · 1982
Tootsie
Film · 1982
The Making of 'Tootsie'
Film · 1982
American Playhouse
Series · 1982
American Playhouse
Series · 1982
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Film · 1981
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
Film · 1980
All That Jazz
Film · 1979
King Kong
Film · 1976
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Series · 1973
Film '72
Series · 1971
The Oscars
Series · 1953
Today
Series · 1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Series · 1951
Bambi
Series · 1948
The Year of Magical Thinking
Film