Jessica Lange

Birth Place: Cloquet, MN, USA

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Jessica Phyllis Lange 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. Additionally, she is the second actress to win the Academy Award for Best Actress after winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the third actress and first performer since 1943 to receive two Oscar nominations in the same year, the fifth actress and ninth performer to win Oscars in both the lead and supporting acting categories, and tied for the sixth most Oscar-nominated actress. Lange holds the record for most nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. She is the only performer ever to win Primetime Emmy Awards in both the Outstanding Supporting Actress and Outstanding Lead Actress categories for the same miniseries. Lange has also garnered a Critics Choice Award and three Dorian Awards, making her the most honored actress by the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association. In 1998, Entertainment Weekly listed Lange among the 25 Greatest Actresses of the 1990s. In 2014, she was scheduled to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but she has yet to claim it.

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 ninth Emmy, 16th Golden Globe, sixth Screen Actors Guild, 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 five 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.

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Jessica Lange STAGE CREDITS

[Broadway]
Second Stage Original Broadway Production, 2024
Phyllis

[Broadway]
Roundabout Broadway Revival, 2016
Mary Tyrone

[Broadway]
Broadway Revival, 2005
The Mother

[Broadway]
Broadway Revival, 1992
Blanche Du Bois


Jessica Lange Movies

[1976]King Kong Dwan

[1979]All That Jazz Angelique

[1980]How to Beat the High Cost of Living Louise

[1981]The Postman Always Rings Twice Cora Papadakis

[1982]Tootsie Julie Nichols

[1982]Frances Frances Farmer

[1984]Country Jewell Ivy

[1984]Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Maggie

[1985]Sweet Dreams Patsy Cline

[1986]Crimes of the Heart Meg Magrath

[1988]Everybody's All-American Babs

[1988]Far North Kate

[1989]Music Box Ann Talbot

[1990]Men Don't Leave Beth Macauley

[1991]Cape Fear Leigh Bowden

[1991]Jessica Lange: It's Only Make-Believe

[1992]O Pioneers! Alexandra Bergson

[1992]Night and the City Helen Nasseros

[1993]Losing Isaiah Margaret Lewin

[1994]Blue Sky Carly Marshall

[1995]Rob Roy Mary

[1995]A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche DuBois

[1997]A Thousand Acres Ginny Cook Smith

[1998]Hush Martha Baring

[1998]Cousin Bette Bette

[1999]Titus Tamora

[2001]Prozac Nation Mrs. Wurtzel

[2003]Masked and Anonymous Nina Veronica

[2003]Big Fish Sandra Bloom (senior)

[2003]Normal Irma Applewood

[2005]Don't Come Knocking Doreen

[2005]Neverwas Katherine Pierson

[2005]Broken Flowers Carmen

[2006]Bonneville Arvilla Holden

[2007]Sybil Dr. Cornelia Wilbur

[2009]Grey Gardens Big Edie

[2012]The Vow Rita Thornton

[2013]The Big Wedding

[2013]In Secret Madame Raquin

[2014]The Gambler Roberta

[2016]Wild Oats Maddie

[2022]Marlowe Dorothy Cavendish


Jessica Lange TV Shows

Stories from My Childhood The Swan Princess

Hollywood Stuntmakers Dwan

Ànima Edith Bouvier Beale

Welcome to the Basement Nina Veronica

[ 2012-2014]Chelsea Lately Fiona Goode, Sister Jude

Horace & Pete Marsha

Feud: Bette and Joan Joan Crawford

[ 2011-2018]American Horror Story Constance Langdon

The Politician Dusty Jackson

Jessica Lange Awards and Nominations

BroadwayWorld Awards - 2016 - Best Leading Actress in a Play

Jessica Lange, Long Day's Journey Into Night

Drama Desk Awards - 2016 - Outstanding Actress in a Play

Jessica Lange, Long Day's Journey Into Night

Drama League Awards - 2016 - Distinguished Performance Award

Jessica Lange, Long Day's Journey Into Night

Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2016 - Outstanding Actress in a Play

Jessica Lange, Long Day's Journey Into Night

Olivier Awards - 2001 - Best Actress

Jessica LangeLong Day's Journey Into Night

Outer Critics Circle Awards - 1992 - Best Actress - Play

Jessica Lange , A Streetcar Named Desire

Theatre World Awards - 1992 - Performance

Jessica Lange, A Streetcar Named Desire

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Single Tickets for MOTHER PLAY Starring Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons & Celia Keenan-Bolger To Go On Sale Tomorrow

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Second Stage Founder Carole Rothman Will Depart After 45 Years

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What's Coming to Broadway in 2023

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Jessica Lange FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Jessica Lange has appeared on Broadway in 4 shows.

Jessica Lange has not appeared in the West End.

Jessica Lange has been nominated for several awards throughout her career. She was nominated for Best Leading Actress in a Play at the BroadwayWorld Awards, Outstanding Actress in a Play at the Drama Desk Awards, Distinguished Performance Award at the Drama League Awards, and Outstanding Actress in a Play at the Outer Critics Circle Awards, all for her role in "Long Day's Journey Into Night." She was also nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play at the Tony Awards and Best Actress at the Olivier Awards, both for her performance in "Long Day's Journey Into Night." Additionally, Lange received a nomination for Best Actress - Play at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for her role in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and a Performance nomination at the Theatre World Awards, also for "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Jessica Lange has won several awards for her performances on Broadway. She received the Best Leading Actress in a Play award from the BroadwayWorld Awards for her role in "Long Day's Journey Into Night." She also won the Outstanding Actress in a Play award from the Drama Desk Awards and the Outer Critics Circle Awards for the same production. Lange's performance in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" also earned her the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play award at the Tony Awards. Additionally, she received a Performance award from the Theatre World Awards for her role in "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Jessica Lange's next show will be Mother Play which opens on 4/25/2024 on Broadway.

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