“And I could tell that he understood the kind of character that I love to play. Somebody”
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Jessica Lange
Jessica Phyllis Lange is an American actress and photographer. With a career spanning over five decades, she is known for her roles on stage and screen. Her accolades include two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award, in addition to nominations for a BAFTA Award and a Laurence Olivier Award. Lange is one of few performers to achieve Triple Crown of…
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entertainment · American actress (born 1949) · film actor · photographer · stage actor · television actor · actor · also Jessica Lange, Lange
Born 20 April 1949 · Q173585
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2026· 3 entries
“but yes, theatre affords much more interesting roles. In movies, if you look at what”
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And has mentioned her interest in going back to Broadway to star in August: Osage County
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2025· 1 entry
Where she would portray Joan Didion alongside Gary Oldman as John Dunne
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2024· 3 entries
Awarded CineMerit Award (2024).
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Centers on Lillian Hall (Lange), a renowned Broadway actress who, while rehearsing for her next Broadway production, "is forced to reckon with the past and the price she has paid for the choices she made in her life and
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Starred in The Great Lillian Hall, a film directed by Michael Cristofer, written by Elisabeth Seldes Annacone, and co-starring Kathy Bates, Pierce Brosnon, and Lily Rabe
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2023· 1 entry
Jessica Lange: An Adventurer's Heart, a biography by film scholar, historian, and journalist Anthony Uzarowski, was released
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2022· 2 entries
Lange spoke of her "bouts with depression" and "overwhelming sense of loneliness" and referred to the aforementioned project, noting, "I could be feeling that even more acutely right now because I'm starting to play [dru
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Lange shed more light on her dark moods, admitting, "I've suffered bouts of depression my whole life
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2019· 1 entry
Published her fourth book of photography, Highway 61, composed of photographs of U
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2018· 2 entries
Further commented, "Jessica did it better than any human being could possibly have done it
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Lange was honored with the Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theater by the Roundabout Theater Company
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2016· 4 entries
Lange was honored at the Camerimage Film Festival, rreceiving the Krzysztof Kieślowski Award for Acting
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Before receiving a limited theatrical release on September 16, 2016
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (2016).
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Lange had a supporting role in Louis C
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2015· 2 entries
Lange announced that she would not return for the series' fifth season
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“fifth season. She 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. It premiered on Lifetime on August 22, 2016, before receiving a limited theatrical release on September 16, 2016. 2016–present: Return to Broadway In 2016, Lange had a supporting role in Louis C.K.”
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for American Horror Story: Coven (2014).
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Exhibited at Moscow's Multimedia Art Museum
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2013· 2 entries
The third season of American Horror Story, American Horror Story: Coven, garnered the series its highest ratings to that point
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Released a children's book of photography, It's About a Little Bird
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2012· 4 entries
Awarded Lucie Award (2012).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for American Horror Story: Murder House (2012).
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Had a supporting role in director Michael Suscy's box-office hit The Vow, opposite Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams
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On an episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Streep once again praised Lange's work in the film, saying, "Nobody could do that better than [Lange]
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2011· 1 entry
Lange joined the cast of FX's horror anthology series American Horror Story
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2010· 1 entry
Published a second collection of photographs, In Mexico
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Grey Gardens (2009).
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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
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An exhibition of her work, along with a series of her films, was presented at the George Eastman House, the oldest international museum of photography and film, which honors distinguished contributions to film with the G
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2008· 1 entry
Lange published a collection of her black-and-white photographs, 50 Photographs (powerHouse Books), with an introduction by Patti Smith
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2003· 1 entry
Lange starred opposite Tom Wilkinson in HBO's Normal, a film about a man who reveals to his wife his decision to have a sex change, for which she received nominations for the Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Crystal Award (2000).
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1998· 1 entry
Starred opposite Elisabeth Shue in a film adaptation of Balzac's Cousin Bette, for which she received strong reviews
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1996· 1 entry
Lange made her London stage debut in another performance as Blanche DuBois, which received rave reviews
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1995· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Blue Sky (1995).
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Lange gave critically lauded performances in Losing Isaiah, opposite Halle Berry, and Rob Roy, with Liam Neeson
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Won the Academy Award for Best Actress for this performance, along with the Golden Globe Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics, the Utah Film Critics, and the Sant Jordi Award for Best Actress
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1994· 1 entry
Lange was lauded for her performance as a bipolar army wife in the 1960s in Tony Richardson's final film, Blue Sky
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1992· 4 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1992).
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Lange again starred opposite De Niro in Irwin Winkler's Night and the City, and in a television adaptation of Willa Cather's O Pioneers
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As Blanche DuBois in that year's revival of Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire
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Which he saw twice, as his favorite performance, citing it as another motivation to cast Lange
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1989· 2 entries
“Jessica Lange, atriz americana, desencantada com Hollywood”
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Starred in Costa-Gavras's Music Box as a Hungarian lawyer defending her father charged with Nazi war crimes
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Tootsie (1983).
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1982· 2 entries
Lange became the first performer in 40 years to receive two Academy Award nominations in the same year, for Frances and for Tootsie
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Met and entered into a relationship with playwright Sam Shepard
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1976· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress for King Kong (1976).
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“Lange won the 1976 Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. She remained a favorite of Kael, who later wrote,”
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1970· 1 entry
Lange dropped out of college to pursue a more bohemian lifestyle, traveling with Grande in a microbus through the United States and Mexico]
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1967· 1 entry
Received a scholarship to study art and photography at the University of Minnesota, where she met and began dating Spanish photographer Paco Grande
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1962· 1 entry
And centers on Phyllis (Lange), as she oversees her son (Parsons) and daughter's (Keenan-Bolger) relocation to a new apartment, prompting all three to face and reflect on their shared and individual lives and relationshi
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1949· 1 entry
Born 1949-04-20.
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