Jessica Lange

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 Laurentiiss 1976 remake of the 1933 actionadventure 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 Onassiss aunt Big Edie in HBOs 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 FXs horror anthology series American Horror Story 20112015 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 Days Journey into Night She also had a supporting role in Louis CKs Peabody Awardwinning 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 HIVAIDS in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Russia Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Lange licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia