Jessica Lange
Acting
Born: Apr 20, 1949
From: Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
Credits: 30 titles
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 …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long Day's Journey into Night | Mary Tyrone | 2025 | 10.0 |
| Marlowe | Dorothy Quincannon | 2023 | 5.706 |
| Shepard & Dark | Self (archive footage) | 2012 | 5.5 |
| Sybil | Dr. Cornelia Wilbur | 2007 | 6.5 |
| Bonneville | Arvilla Holden | 2006 | 5.641 |
| Broken Flowers | Carmen | 2005 | 6.941 |
| Don't Come Knocking | Doreen | 2005 | 6.198 |
| Neverwas | Katherine Pierson | 2005 | 6.395 |
| Big Fish | Sandra Bloom (senior) | 2003 | 7.758 |
| Masked and Anonymous | Nina Veronica | 2003 | 5.153 |
| Prozac Nation | Mrs. Wurtzel | 2003 | 6.3 |
| Normal | Irma Applewood | 2003 | 6.663 |
| Titus | Tamora | 1999 | 6.437 |
| Hush | Martha Baring | 1998 | 5.712 |
| A Thousand Acres | Ginny Cook Smith | 1997 | 5.724 |
| Rob Roy | Mary MacGregor | 1995 | 6.708 |
| Losing Isaiah | Margaret Lewin | 1995 | 6.5 |
| Night and the City | Helen Nasseros | 1992 | 5.747 |
| Cape Fear | Leigh Bowden | 1991 | 7.259 |
| Music Box | Ann Talbot | 1989 | 7.145 |
| Everybody's All-American | Babs Rogers Grey | 1988 | 5.375 |
| Crimes of the Heart | Meg Magrath | 1986 | 6.093 |
| Sweet Dreams | Patsy Cline | 1985 | 6.5 |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Maggie | 1984 | 5.692 |
| Country | Jewell Ivy | 1984 | 6.515 |
| Frances | Frances Farmer | 1982 | 6.889 |
| Tootsie | Julie Nichols | 1982 | 7.2 |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | Cora Papadakis | 1981 | 6.5 |
| All That Jazz | Angelique | 1979 | 7.491 |
| King Kong | Dwan | 1976 | 6.284 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1949 |
| From | Cloquet, Minnesota, USA |