Jessica Lange

Known for

Acting

Born

April 20, 1949 (age 77)

Birthplace

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 w...

Best known work

Big Fish

2003

American Horror Story

2011

The Vow

2012

Cape Fear

1991

Tootsie

1982

The Gambler

2014

Broken Flowers

2005

King Kong

1976

Rob Roy

1995

All That Jazz

1979

Filmography

TBA
The Year of Magical Thinking
as Joan Didion
2026
Long Day's Journey into Night
as Mary Tyrone
2024
The Great Lillian Hall
as Lillian Hall, Executive Producer
2023
Marlowe
as Dorothy Quincannon
2019
The PoliticianTV
as Dusty Jackson (8 episodes)
2018
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
as Self
2017
FEUDTV
as Joan Crawford (16 episodes), as Lillie Mae Faulk (2 episodes), Producer
2016
Wild Oats
as Maddie
2016
Horace and PeteTV
as Marsha (10 episodes)
2015
The Late Show with Stephen ColbertTV
as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood ReporterTV
as Self (2 episodes)
2014
The Gambler
as Roberta
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on ActorsTV
as Self (1 episode)
2014
Late Night with Seth MeyersTV
as Self - Guest (2 episodes)
2014
In Secret
as Madame Raquin
2012
Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story
as Self
2012
Shepard & Dark
as Self (archive footage)
2012
The Vow
as Rita Thornton
2011
American Horror StoryTV
as Fiona Goode (13 episodes), as Constance Langdon (14 episodes), as Sister Jude Martin (13 episodes), as Elsa Mars (13 episodes), as Constance Langdon / Sister Jude Martin / Fiona Goode / Elsa Mars (13 episodes)
2009
Grey Gardens
as Big Edie
2008
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
as Self
2007
Sybil
as Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
2006
Bonneville
as Arvilla Holden
2005
The Peace!
as Self
2005
Neverwas
as Katherine Pierson