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    Jessica Lange

    1949-04-20 (75 years old) in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA

    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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Lange, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

    Movies

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    The Great Lillian Hall
    61 %|Jun 30, 2024
    Drama
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    Marlowe
    57.46000000000001 %|Feb 15, 2023
    Crime
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    Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
    71 %|Sep 13, 2018
    Documentary
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    Wild Oats
    61.559999999999995 %|Sep 22, 2016
    Comedy, Drama
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    The Gambler
    60.03999999999999 %|Dec 25, 2014
    Thriller, Crime, Drama
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    In Secret
    61 %|Sep 17, 2013
    Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
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    Shepard & Dark
    59 %|Sep 11, 2012
    Documentary
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    The Vow
    72.47 %|Feb 5, 2012
    Drama, Romance
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    Grey Gardens
    68.72 %|Jun 21, 2009
    History, Drama, TV Movie
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    A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
    60 %|Feb 5, 2008
    Documentary
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    Sybil
    65 %|May 28, 2007
    Drama
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    Bonneville
    56.379999999999995 %|Sep 11, 2006
    Comedy, Drama
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    The Peace!
    50 %|Sep 20, 2005
    Documentary
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    Neverwas
    63 %|Sep 9, 2005
    Drama, Thriller
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    Don't Come Knocking
    62 %|Aug 25, 2005
    Drama, Western
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    Broken Flowers
    69.06 %|Jul 31, 2005
    Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
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    Big Fish
    77.61999999999999 %|Dec 25, 2003
    Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
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    Masked and Anonymous
    52 %|Jul 25, 2003
    Drama, Music
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    Normal
    68 %|Jan 21, 2003
    Drama, TV Movie
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    The Making of 'Cape Fear'
    72.94 %|Sep 18, 2001
    Documentary
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    Prozac Nation
    64 %|Sep 8, 2001
    Drama, Romance
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    A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances
    0 %|Jan 1, 2001
    Documentary
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    Titus
    64.71000000000001 %|Dec 25, 1999
    Drama, History
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    Cousin Bette
    56.589999999999996 %|Jun 12, 1998
    Comedy, Drama, Romance
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    Hush
    56 %|Mar 6, 1998
    Drama, Thriller
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    A Thousand Acres
    58.099999999999994 %|Sep 19, 1997
    Drama, Family
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    A Streetcar Named Desire
    70 %|Oct 24, 1995
    Drama, TV Movie
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    Rob Roy
    67.06 %|Apr 13, 1995
    Adventure, History, Drama, Action, War
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    Losing Isaiah
    64 %|Mar 17, 1995
    Drama
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    Blue Sky
    60.86 %|Sep 16, 1994
    Drama, Romance
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    Night and the City
    57 %|Oct 16, 1992
    Crime, Drama
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    O Pioneers!
    55 %|Feb 2, 1992
    TV Movie, Action, Drama, Romance
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    Cape Fear
    72.61999999999999 %|Nov 13, 1991
    Drama, Crime, Thriller
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    Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
    100 %|Oct 22, 1990
    Documentary
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    Men Don't Leave
    64 %|Feb 2, 1990
    Drama, Comedy
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    Music Box
    71 %|Dec 22, 1989
    Drama, Thriller, Mystery
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    Far North
    63 %|Nov 9, 1988
    Drama
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    Everybody's All-American
    55 %|Nov 4, 1988
    Drama, Romance
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    King Kong Lives
    51 %|Dec 16, 1986
    Fantasy, Action, Adventure
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    Crimes of the Heart
    61 %|Dec 12, 1986
    Comedy, Drama
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    Sweet Dreams
    65.28999999999999 %|Oct 2, 1985
    Drama, Music, Romance
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    Country
    64 %|Sep 29, 1984
    Drama
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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    55 %|Aug 19, 1984
    TV Movie, Drama
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    Notre Dame de la Croisette
    60 %|Feb 23, 1983
    Drama, TV Movie, Documentary
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    Tootsie
    72.16 %|Dec 17, 1982
    Comedy, Romance
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    Frances
    68.60000000000001 %|Dec 3, 1982
    Drama
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    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    65.35 %|Mar 20, 1981
    Crime, Romance, Drama, Thriller
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    King Kong
    62.26 %|Sep 8, 1976
    Adventure, Fantasy
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    Long Day's Journey Into Night
    0 %|Invalid Date
    Drama
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    All That Jazz
    74.49 %|Dec 16, 1979
    Drama

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    The Politician
    70.19999999999999 %|Sep 27, 2019
    Comedy
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    FEUD
    77.28 %|Mar 5, 2017
    Drama
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    FEUD
    77.28 %|Mar 5, 2017
    Drama
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    Horace and Pete
    77 %|Jan 30, 2016
    Drama, Comedy
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    Late Night with Seth Meyers
    55 %|Feb 25, 2014
    Talk, Comedy
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    American Horror Story
    81 %|Oct 5, 2011
    Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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    American Horror Story
    81 %|Oct 5, 2011
    Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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    American Horror Story
    81 %|Oct 5, 2011
    Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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    American Horror Story
    81 %|Oct 5, 2011
    Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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    The View
    44.21 %|Aug 11, 1997
    Talk
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    Inside the Actors Studio
    74.42999999999999 %|Aug 14, 1994
    Talk
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    Intimate Portrait
    45 %|Nov 14, 1993
    Documentary
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    The Oscars
    70 %|Mar 19, 1953
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    Today
    55 %|Jan 14, 1952
    News, Talk
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame
    86.67 %|Dec 24, 1951
    Drama
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    Bambi Awards
    90 %|Jan 1, 1948
    Reality