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.

Filmography

• 2026Long Day's Journey into Night — Mary Tyrone
• 2024The Great Lillian Hall — Lillian Hall, Executive Producer
• 2023Marlowe — Dorothy Quincannon
• The Politician — Dusty Jackson
• FEUD — Joan Crawford, Lillie Mae Faulk, Producer
• Horace and Pete — Marsha
• 2016Wild Oats — Maddie
• 2014In Secret — Madame Raquin
• 2014The Gambler — Roberta
• 2012The Vow — Rita Thornton
• American Horror Story — Fiona Goode, Constance Langdon, Sister Jude Martin, Elsa Mars, Constance Langdon / Sister Jude Martin / Fiona Goode / Elsa Mars
• 2009Grey Gardens — Big Edie
• 2007Sybil — Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
• 2006Bonneville — Arvilla Holden
• 2005Broken Flowers — Carmen
• 2005Don't Come Knocking — Doreen
• 2005Neverwas — Katherine Pierson
• 2003Big Fish — Sandra Bloom (senior)
• 2003Masked and Anonymous — Nina Veronica
• 2003Normal — Irma Applewood
• 2003Prozac Nation — Mrs. Wurtzel
• 1999Titus — Tamora
• 1998Cousin Bette — Cousin Bette
• 1998Hush — Martha Baring
• 1997A Thousand Acres — Ginny Cook Smith
• 1995A Streetcar Named Desire — Blanche DuBois
• 1995Losing Isaiah — Margaret Lewin
• 1995Rob Roy — Mary MacGregor
• 1994Blue Sky — Carly Marshall
• 1992Night and the City — Helen Nasseros
• 1992O Pioneers! — Alexandra Bergson
• 1991Cape Fear — Leigh Bowden
• 1990Men Don't Leave — Beth Macauley
• 1989Music Box — Ann Talbot
• 1988Everybody's All-American — Babs Rogers Grey
• 1988Far North — Kate
• 1986Crimes of the Heart — Meg Magrath
• 1986King Kong Lives — Dwan (archive footage)
• 1985Sweet Dreams — Patsy Cline
• 1984Cat on a Hot Tin Roof — Maggie Pollitt
• 1984Country — Jewell Ivy, Producer
• American Playhouse — Maggie Pollitt, Alexandra Bergson
• 1982Frances — Frances Farmer
• 1982Tootsie — Julie Nichols
• 1981The Postman Always Rings Twice — Cora Papadakis
• 1980How to Beat the High Cost of Living — Louise
• 1979All That Jazz — Angelique
• 1976King Kong — Dwan
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Alexandra Bergson
• The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion

Appearances as themselves (28)

• 2018Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco — Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2012Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story — Self
• 2012Shepard & Dark — Self (archive footage)
• 2008A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' — Self
• 2005El Fantasma de la Libertad o cuánto valen 3 mil toneladas de uranio empobrecido — Self
• 2005The Peace! — Self
• 2004Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• 2001A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances — Herself
• 2001The Making of 'Cape Fear' — Self
• The View — Self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• Intimate Portrait — Self
• Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Guest
• 1990Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond — Self - Host
• Hollywood '84 — Self
• 1983Notre Dame de la Croisette — Self (uncredited)
• 1982The Making of 'Tootsie' — Self
• The American Film Institute Salute to ... — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• Today — Self
• Bambi — Self