85 Facts About Jessica Lange

Jessica Lange made her professional film debut in the remake King Kong which earned her the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.

Jessica Lange went on to receive two Academy Awards, her first for Best Supporting Actress as a soap opera star in the comedy Tootsie and her second for Best Actress playing a bipolar housewife in the drama Blue Sky.

Jessica Lange acted in films such as All That Jazz, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Crimes of the Heart, Cape Fear, Rob Roy, Big Fish, and Broken Flowers.

Jessica Lange gained new recognition by starring in FX's horror anthology, American Horror Story, which earned her two additional Primetime Emmys for its first and third seasons.

Jessica Lange was Emmy-nominated for her roles as Blanche DuBois in the CBS film A Streetcar Named Desire, a wife in the HBO television movie Normal, and Joan Crawford in FX the miniseries Feud: Bette and Joan.

On stage, Jessica Lange made her Broadway debut as Blanche DuBois in the revival of the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire.

Jessica Lange won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role as Mary Cavan Tyrone in the Broadway revival of the Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey into Night.

Jessica Lange returned to Broadway playing the hardheaded matriarch in the Paula Vogel play Mother Play.

Jessica Lange is a photographer with five published books of photography.

Jessica Phyllis Lange was born on April 20,1949, in Cloquet, Minnesota.

Jessica Lange's father, Albert John Lange, was a teacher and traveling salesman, and her mother, Dorothy Florence, was a housewife.

Jessica Lange has two older sisters, Jane and Ann, and a younger brother, George.

Jessica Lange later studied acting with Mira Rostova and at HB Studio in New York City.

Jessica Lange made her film debut in the 1976 King Kong, beating actresses Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn for the role of damsel-in-distress.

At the close of the decade, Bob Fosse, whom Jessica Lange had befriended and with whom she had carried on a casual romantic affair, cast Jessica Lange as Angelique, the Angel of Death, a part he had written for her in his semi-autobiographical film All That Jazz.

Jessica Lange was considered for the role of Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's horror film The Shining before it went to Shelley Duvall.

Jessica Lange began the new decade in the light romp How to Beat the High Cost of Living, co-starring Jane Curtin and Susan Saint James, which received mostly negative reviews and quickly disappeared from theaters.

Rafelson paid Jessica Lange a visit in upstate New York, where she was doing summer stock theater and has recounted how he watched her conversing on the telephone for half an hour before their meeting when he decided he had found the lead for his film.

The film received mixed reviews, but Jessica Lange was highly praised for her performance.

Jessica Lange won Best Actress at the Moscow International Film Festival for her performance in Frances.

Jessica Lange next produced and starred, again opposite Shepard, in 1984's Country, a topical film depicting a family during the farm crisis.

Jessica Lange's performance earned her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress.

Jessica Lange was nominated a fourth time for an Oscar and came in second for both the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress.

Jessica Lange's performance earned her a fifth Academy Award nomination and a sixth Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.

Jessica Lange continued making films throughout the 1990s, periodically taking time off to raise her children and do theater- and television-based projects.

Jessica Lange began the decade in Paul Brickman's warmly received Men Don't Leave, for which she earned positive reviews and came in third place for the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress.

Jessica Lange was then approached by Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, who had both auditioned her for the role of Jake LaMotta's wife in Raging Bull, to star in a remake of Cape Fear.

Jessica Lange made her Broadway debut, which met mixed reviews portraying Blanche DuBois in a production of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire opposite Alec Baldwin.

In 1994, Jessica Lange was lauded for her performance as a manic depressive army wife in the 1960s in Tony Richardson's final film, Blue Sky.

Jessica Lange came in second place for the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress.

Jessica Lange became the second actress, after Streep, to follow a Best Supporting Actress Oscar with a Best Actress Oscar, an achievement not repeated until nearly 20 years later by Cate Blanchett.

In 1995, Jessica Lange gave critically lauded performances in Losing Isaiah, opposite Halle Berry, and Rob Roy, with Liam Neeson.

Jessica Lange received glowing reviews for her performance, which earned her fourth Golden Globe Award and her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.

In 1996, Jessica Lange made her London stage debut in another performance as Blanche DuBois, which received rave reviews.

Jessica Lange received her ninth Golden Globe Award nomination and won the Venice Film Festival's Schermi d'Amore award for her performance in the film.

Jessica Lange received strong reviews for her performance in Titus, Julie Taymor's 1999 adaptation of William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, co-starring Anthony Hopkins and Alan Cumming.

Jessica Lange began the new millennium with a London stage production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, playing the part of the morphine-addicted family matriarch Mary Tyrone, for which she became the first American actress to receive an Olivier Award nomination.

Jessica Lange appeared mostly in supporting roles thereafter, most notably opposite Christina Ricci in the 2001 adaptation of Elizabeth Wurtzel's best-selling memoir on depression, Prozac Nation.

Jessica Lange followed this with performances in the Bob Dylan vehicle Masked and Anonymous, Tim Burton's Big Fish, Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers and Wim Wenders's Don't Come Knocking, before starring in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie for which she received mixed reviews.

Jessica Lange later starred with Tammy Blanchard in a remake of Sybil in 2007.

In 2009, Jessica Lange co-starred as Big Edie, opposite Drew Barrymore, in HBO's Grey Gardens, directed by Michael Sucsy and based on the 1975 documentary of the same name.

Jessica Lange won her first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie after two previous nominations in the same category.

Jessica Lange received her 11th Golden Globe Award nomination and second Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for her performance, losing both awards to Barrymore.

In 2011, Jessica Lange joined the cast of FX's horror anthology series American Horror Story.

Series co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk originally wrote her part as a supporting character, but after Jessica Lange acquired the role, they expanded it.

Murphy, a long-time admirer of Jessica Lange, said he chose her because he wanted to expose her work to a new generation of viewers.

Jessica Lange singled out her performance as Blanche DuBois on Broadway in 1992, which he saw twice, as his favorite performance, citing it as another motivating factor in hiring Lange.

Jessica Lange was chosen by TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, and MTV for giving one of the "best performances of 2011".

Jessica Lange was awarded a Special Achievement Satellite Award for Outstanding Performance in a Television Series by the International Press Academy and the Dorian Award for Best TV Performance of the Year by the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association.

Jessica Lange was further nominated for the TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama, Critics' Choice Television Award, and Saturn Award.

Jessica Lange won a second Dorian Award for Best TV Performance of the Year by the GALECA, and received a fifth Emmy nomination, a thirteenth Golden Globe Award nomination, a fourth Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, a second Saturn Award nomination, and a second Critics' Choice Television Award nomination.

Jessica Lange was joined by fellow film actors Kathy Bates and Angela Bassett.

Jessica Lange received her fourteenth Golden Globe nomination, her fifth Screen Actors Guild Award nomination and her fifth Satellite Award nomination for her performance on the series.

Jessica Lange began 2014 by being honored with a nomination for a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame, though she has yet to claim it.

Jessica Lange was recognized by Elle Magazine with the L'Oreal de Paris Legend Award presented to her by her friend Shirley MacLaine during The Women in Hollywood Awards, honoring women for their outstanding achievements in film, spanning all aspects of the motion picture industry, including acting, directing, and producing.

Jessica Lange was next honored with and became the first female recipient of the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film, presented to her by the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Later in the year, Marc Jacobs chose Jessica Lange to be the new face of Marc Jacobs Beauty.

Jessica Lange next starred opposite Mark Wahlberg in the remake of the 1970s action-thriller, The Gambler, receiving rave reviews for her work.

Jessica Lange led the fourth season of American Horror Story, titled American Horror Story: Freak Show.

In 2015, Jessica Lange announced that she would not return for the series' fifth season.

Jessica Lange followed her final season on American Horror Story with a role opposite Shirley MacLaine and Demi Moore in the road-trip comedy, Wild Oats, which wrapped production at the end of 2014.

Jessica Lange next returned to Broadway alongside Michael Shannon, Gabriel Byrne and John Gallagher Jr.

Jessica Lange giving her all to each of her big set pieces, but they often feel too exquisitely self-contained, like coloratura arias in an opera.

Jessica Lange is often acting beautifully, but she is often palpably acting.

Jessica Lange won the Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Lead Actress with nominations for the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance and a Time Out New York Award.

Jessica Lange told filmmaker Michael Stever that Kim Stanley remained one of her truest inspirations.

On November 12,2016, Jessica Lange was honored at the Camerimage Film Festival, where she was awarded the Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for Acting.

Jessica Lange next starred in FX's anthology series, Feud: Bette and Joan, serving as producer alongside Susan Sarandon, who co-starred, and executive producers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.

Jessica Lange was honored by the Trinity Repertory Company's Pell Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts on May 23,2017.

In 2018, Jessica Lange was honored with the Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theater by the Roundabout Theater Company.

Jessica Lange returned to Broadway to originate the lead role in a Second Stage Theater presentation of Paula Vogel's new play, Mother Play, which premiered at the Hayes Theater in April 2024.

Alexis Soloski of The New York Times described the role as a "showcase for Jessica Lange" adding, "Another actress as Phyllis might have done more to communicate the small ravages of time, but Jessica Lange concentrates instead on her ageless ferocity and charm".

Jessica Lange received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination for the role.

Jessica Lange acted in the FX on Hulu miniseries Feud: Capote vs The Swans as Truman Capote's deceased mother Lillie Mae Faulk who.

Jessica Lange is often included in the milieu of America's finest and most respected actresses.

Jessica Lange has been credited for her ability to deliver emotional intensity without resorting to excessive melodrama.

Critics have frequently pointed out her tendency to play women on the edge of a nervous breakdown, a notion that Jessica Lange herself has acknowledged.

Nicholas Bell of Ioncinema writes that her Oscar-winning role of Carly in Blue Sky is reminiscent of her signature performances, as "Jessica Lange excels [here] at the small tics hinting at the madness always lurking below the surface".

Jessica Lange was married to photographer Francisco "Paco" Grande from 1970 to 1982.

Jessica Lange fostered a Romanian child with disabilities during the early 1990s.

In 2008, Jessica Lange published a collection of her black-and-white photographs, 50 Photographs, with an introduction by Patti Smith.

Jessica Lange received the first George Eastman Honors Award, an award given to an artist whose life work embodies the traditions and values championed by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.

Jessica Lange has earned two Academy Awards, three Emmys Awards, and a Tony Award.

Jessica Lange has earned five Golden Globe Awards among sixteen nominations.

Jessica Lange has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the following films:.