Jessica Lange
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Date of Birth:
April 20, 1949 (73)
Birth Place: Cloquet, MN, USA
Bio:
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 ...
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Stage Credits
Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Glass Menagerie
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Jessica Lange Biography
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.
Jessica Lange Awards and Nominations
BroadwayWorld Awards - 2016 - Best Leading Actress in a Play  |
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2016 - Outstanding Actress in a Play |
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| Tony Awards - 2016 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play |
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| Olivier Awards - 2001 - Best Actress | ||
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards - 1992 - Best Actress - Play | ||
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| Theatre World Awards - 1992 - Performance |
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Jessica Lange News
Miracle Chance, Ellis Kirk & More to Join HEATHERS at The Other Palace This Monthby Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 7, 2023
Heathers the Musical, will be ushering in a new cast from 21st February at The Other Palace, with the show now booking until 3 September 2023.
Review: TOOTSIE at Washington Pavilionby Sonja Niles - Feb 4, 2023
What did our critic think of TOOTSIE at Washington Pavilion?
TOOTSIE, THE DA VINCI CODE, and More Set For Ogunquit Playhouse 2023 Seasonby Stephi Wild - Jan 10, 2023
Ogunquit Playhouse has announced its 2023 mainstage season, featuring the American premiere of a new stage thriller based on a bestselling mystery novel, the stage adaptation of the #1 movie musical of all time, the irresistible story of a Cuban American music icon, the regional premiere of a beloved family musical comedy, and the extension of a Tony Award-winning Broadway hit.
Good Theater Presents CRIMES OF THE HEART This Januaryby A.A. Cristi - Dec 21, 2022
Good Theater welcomes the new year and continues its 20th anniversary season with Crimes of the Heart, running January 11th through January 29th.
DES MOINES Starring Michael Shannon & More Extends at TFANAby Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 21, 2022
Theatre for a New Audience has announced the extension of the Off-Broadway premiere of Denis Johnson’s Des Moines. The final play from the late author now runs through January 8, 2023 (extended from an original closing date of January 1).
DES MOINES Starring Michael Shannon & More Announces New Preview & Opening Datesby Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 1, 2022
Theatre for a New Audience has announced new preview, press, and opening dates for Denis Johnson’s Des Moines. Due to the detection of Covid within the Des Moines company, performances November 29 – December 3 have been canceled, with the production now beginning December 4.
Wake Up With BWW 11/29: Mariah Carey Joins SOME LIKE IT HOT Producing Team, and More!by - Nov 29, 2022
Top stories include: Mariah Carey joins the producing team of Some Like It Hot, which also canceled last night's performance. Plus, the upcoming film of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, starring Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ben Foster and Colin Morgan, has wrapped production.
Preview Performances of DES MOINES at Theatre for a New Audience Rescheduled to Due Covidby Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 28, 2022
Due to Covid cases within the company, Theatre for a New Audience is canceling five preview performances of the Off-Broadway premiere of iconic American writer Denis Johnson's Des Moines, directed by Arin Arbus and featuring Johanna Day, Arliss Howard, Hari Nef, Michael Shannon, and Heather Alicia Simms.
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT Film Starring Jessica Lange & Ed Harris Wraps Productionby Michael Major - Nov 28, 2022
Production has wrapped on the new film adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer prize-winning play, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, starring Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ben Foster and Colin Morgan. Jonathan Kent will make his film directorial debut with the film. David Lindsay-Abaire adapted the play for the screen.
Broadway Press Agent Susan L. Schulman Passes Awayby Nicole Rosky - Oct 20, 2022
BroadwayWorld is saddened to report the death of Broadway press agent Susan L. Schulman.
Jessica Lange Videos
by Stage Tube - Jan 27, 2021
Susan Sarandon talks about the paparazzi following her and Jessica Lange on their superhero walks, shares her thoughts on Thelma and Louise's recent surge in popularity and dishes on playing a plot twist on her series Search Party.
by Stage Tube - Nov 19, 2020
The Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actress plays a protective mother who becomes quite terrifying over the course of the movie.
by Stage Tube - Oct 22, 2020
They say you can never escape a mother’s love... but for Chloe, that’s not a comfort — it’s a threat.
by Stage Tube - Sep 24, 2020
Sarah Paulson talks about her work with Ryan Murphy, playing a villain audiences root for and dipping her toes into interacting with fans on Instagram Live.
by Stage Tube - Sep 18, 2020
Stephen's good friend Sarah Paulson makes her fifth appearance on the show, commiserating with our host about the challenges of performing without an audience and their shared love for Cate Blanchett.
by Stage Tube - May 3, 2020
Ben Platt, along with his brothers Jonah Platt and Henry Platt, took to YouTube to post a beautiful arrangement of Ahavat Olam by Gabe Mann and Piper Rutman.
by Stage Tube - Apr 14, 2020
The cast of Netflix's a?oeCheera?? held a 'Cheer Chat' livestream on Saturday, hosted by Monica Aldama, the coach of the Navarro Cheerleading team!
by Stage Tube - Mar 31, 2020
Ben Platt has shared a short film that he wrote and produced with Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon & Nick Lieberman!
by Stage Tube - Jan 27, 2020
During the 2020 Grammy Awards, in a tribute to longtime GRAMMY executive producer Ken Ehrlich, and to acknowledge the importance of music education in schools to the Recording Academy, GRAMMY Museum and Ehrlich, artists performed 'I Sing The Body Electric' from the film Fame. The performance featured Ben Platt, Camila Cabello, Gary Clark Jr. and John Legend, Debbie Allen, Joshua Bell, Common, Misty Copeland, Lang Lang, Cyndi Lauper, and The War And Treaty.
by Stage Tube - Jan 8, 2020
After a fan gave his religious mother a picture of Ewan in his Jedi robes, she displayed it in their home thinking it was a picture of Jesus.
