
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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 10.179 |
Birthday | 1949-04-20 |
Place of Birth | Cloquet, Minnesota, USA |
Also Known As | Jessica Phyllis Lange, جسیکا لنگ, |

2005

Broken Flowers
6.914/1354
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2003

Big Fish
7.758/7266
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge myste...
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1991

Cape Fear
7.258/3480
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14...
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1989

Music Box
7.081/161
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
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1982

Frances
6.9/111
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
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2005

Don't Come Knocking
6.2/114
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and y...
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Don't Come Knocking

1976

King Kong
6.238/846
An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.
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1984

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
5.5/11
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2012

Shepard & Dark
5.9/9
An indelible portrait of the complex relationship between playwright and actor Sam Shepard and his close friend Johnny Dark as they prepare forty year...
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1981

The Postman Always Rings Twice
6.527/500
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
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2025

Long Day's Journey into Night
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Over the course of a day, a married couple, Mary and James Tyrone, and their two sons, Jamie and Edmund, grapple with Mary's morphine addiction and co...
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2005

Neverwas
6.3/126
Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What h...
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1995

Rob Roy
6.701/644
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2003

Masked and Anonymous
5.1/50
A nation wracked with civil war and social unrest anticipates a giant charity concert, organized by deceptive promoter Uncle Sweetheart, who plans on...
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1982

Tootsie
7.2/1769
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Michaels – in order to land a part in a daytime drama,...
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1988

Everybody's All-American
5.5/45
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2007

Sybil
6.5/59
A true story of a young woman whose abusive childhood results in her developing a multiple personality disorder.
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1999

Titus
6.4/265
Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.
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2023

Marlowe
5.7/375
Private detective Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in an investigation involving a wealthy Californian family after a beautiful blonde hires him to tr...
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Marlowe

1995

Losing Isaiah
6.4/98
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he...
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1984

Country
6.391/32
Jewell and Gil are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gil has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, b...
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1992

Night and the City
5.7/77
Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter.
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1985

Sweet Dreams
6.564/55
The story of Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.
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2001

Prozac Nation
6.353/312
When talented young writer Elizabeth Wurtzel earns a scholarship to Harvard, she sees it as her chance to escape the pressures of her working-class ba...
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2006

Bonneville
5.6/58
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1979

All That Jazz
7.473/514
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly col...
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1998

Hush
5.628/295
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1997

A Thousand Acres
5.8/73
The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.
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1986

Crimes of the Heart
6.1/62
Three sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.
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Crimes of the Heart

2003

Normal
6.797/37
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
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1998

Cousin Bette
5.7/44
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Cousin Bette

2009

Grey Gardens
6.9/145
Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis raised as Park Avenue débutantes but who withdrew from New York soc...
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2012

The Vow
7.243/4070
Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost th...
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1990

Men Don't Leave
6.453/32
A widowed mother and her two sons move to Baltimore and struggle to adjust to urban life, encountering numerous eccentric characters along the way.
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1994

Blue Sky
6.1/132
Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assigned to help conduct weapons testing in 1950s Americ...
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1992

O Pioneers!
5.5/4
A young woman inherits her father's farm after he dies. Over the years, she overcomes challenges and turns it into a success, all the while yearning f...
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1988

Far North
6.3/7
After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope with their original issues.
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2001

The Making of 'Cape Fear'
7.294/17
A retrospective documentary on the making of Cape Fear (1991) and Cape Fear (1962).
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2005

The Peace!
5/1
Amid an escalating war in Iraq, rising terror levels and the threat of nuclear attack, a growing body of intellectuals, religious leaders and communit...
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1995

A Streetcar Named Desire
7/20
A fading Southern Belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.
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1980

How to Beat the High Cost of Living
5.1/26
In order to beat inflation and subsidize their alimony checks, three suburban housewives plot to steal $1 million from a large plastic ball which is d...
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2013

In Secret
6.142/226
In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her...
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1983

Notre Dame de la Croisette
6/1
A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.
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2014

The Gambler
6.002/1428
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2025

The Great Lillian Hall
0/0
Lillian Hall, a Broadway actress, has never missed a performance throughout her long, illustrious career. Yet in the rehearsals her confidence is chal...
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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2016

Wild Oats
6.2/93
Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000. She a...
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1986

King Kong Lives
5.1/220
After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail, scientists engineer an artificial heart, and a g...
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2008

A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
6/3
Documentary about the making of the 1982 film, featuring interviews with the cast and crew.
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2012

Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story
9.2/15
In this video-short go behind the scenes with the cast of "American Horror Story" on how the show is made.
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2001

A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances
0/0
The making of FRANCES, a retrospective documentary.
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1990

Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
10/1
The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depression but always remained a star.
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Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond

2018

Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
7.1/9
Sex Fashion and Disco is a documentary film concerning Antonio Lopez (1943-1987), the most influential fashion illustrator of 1970s Paris and New York...
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2014

Scorsese's Women
0/0
Five amazing actresses who have starred in Martin Scorsese's films come together in imaginary cinematic scenarios. Each leading lady has her own myste...
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Scorsese's Women

2004

Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines
0/0
The work of women peace-builders in five countries, including Afghanistan, Burundi, Bosnia, Argentina and the U.S.
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