Jessica Lange

Acting · Born 1949-04-20 in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA

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…

Filmography

• Broken Flowers as Carmen
• Big Fish as Sandra Bloom (senior)
• Cape Fear as Leigh Bowden
• Tootsie as Julie Nichols
• All That Jazz as Angelique
• The Vow as Rita Thornton
• Music Box as Ann Talbot
• Frances as Frances Farmer
• Don't Come Knocking as Doreen
• King Kong as Dwan

TV

• American Horror Story as Fiona Goode
• American Horror Story as Constance Langdon
• American Horror Story as Sister Jude Martin
• American Horror Story as Elsa Mars
• Horace and Pete as Marsha
• Inside the Actors Studio as Self
• Today as Self
• Hallmark Hall of Fame as Alexandra Bergson
• Intimate Portrait as Self
• The Oscars as Self