Jessica Lange
Gender: Female
Born: 20th April 1949 (currently 63 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: American Horror Story, American Horror Story
Movies: All That Jazz, Big Fish, Blue Sky, Cape Fear, Don't Come Knocking, King Kong, Masked and Anonymous, Normal, Rob Roy, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Titus, Tootsie, Everybody's All-American, Music Box, Night and the City, Crimes of the Heart, O Pioneers!, Sweet Dreams, Sybil, Frances, Losing Isaiah, Country, Hush, A Streetcar Named Desire, How to Beat the High Co$t of Living, Men Don't Leave, A Thousand Acres, Cousin Bette, Broken Flowers, Bonneville, Neverwas, Prozac Nation, Grey Gardens, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Vow, The Big Valley, Far North
Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in film, theatre and television. The recipient of multiple awards, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globes, one Emmy and one Screen Actors Guild Award, Lange is regarded as one of the première actors of her generation.
Lange was discovered by producer Dino De Laurentiis and made her professional film debut in 1976's King Kong. In 1982, she became the first actor in forty years to receive two Oscar nominations within the same year; she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a soap opera star in Tootsie and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the troubled actress Frances Farmer in Frances. Lange received three more nominations for Country (1984), Sweet Dreams (1985), and Music Box (1989) before being nominated a sixth time and winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as a manic depressive in Blue Sky (1994).
In addition to acting, Lange is a photographer with two published works, and is a humanitarian, holding a position as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, specializing in the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Congo
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