• Barrymore, Lange to inhabit 'Grey Gardens'

Jessica Phyllis Lange is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress.

Lange was born in Cloquet, Minnesota to Dorothy and Albert Lange. She studied art briefly at the University of Minnesota before going to Paris. She returned to New York City in 1973 and took acting lessons while working as a waitress and a model for the Wilhelmina modeling agency.

In 1976, Dino De Laurentiis cast her in his motion picture remake King Kong, which started and almost ended her career. Her performance in her next film, Frances (1982), was highly lauded and earned her a Best Actress Academy Award nomination. She received two nominations that year, the other as Supporting Actress in the comedy Tootsie (1982), for which she won. She continued giving impressive performances through the 80s and 90s in films such as Sweet Dreams (1984), Music Box (1989), and Blue Sky (1994) for which she won the Best Actress Academy Award.

In 2000, she appeared on the London stage as Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night. In 2005, she returned to Broadway in another Tennessee Williams' play, The Glass Menagerie with actor Christian Slater.

Public Name: Jessica Lange
Birth Name: Jessica Phyllis Lange
Date of Birth: April 20, 1949
Place of Birth: Cloquet, Minnesota

Filmography

• Grey Gardens (2007)
• Sybil (2006)
• Bonneville (2006)
• Neverwas (2005)
• Don't Come Knocking (2005)
• Broken Flowers (2005)
• Big Fish (2003)
• Masked and Anonymous (2003)
• Normal (2003)
• Prozac Nation (2001)
• Titus (1999)
• Cousin Bette (1998)
• Hush (1998)
• "Stories from My Childhood" (1 episode)
• A Thousand Acres (1997)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
• Rob Roy (1995)
• Losing Isaiah (1995)
• Blue Sky (1994)
• Night and the City (1992)
• O Pioneers! (1992)
• Cape Fear (1991)
• Men Don't Leave (1990)
• Music Box (1989)
• Everybody's All-American (1988)
• Far North (1988)
• Crimes of the Heart (1986)
• Sweet Dreams (1985)
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1985)
• Country (1984)
• Frances (1982)
• Tootsie (1982)
• The Best Little Girl in the World (1981)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
• How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980)
• All That Jazz (1979)
• King Kong (1976)

Awards

• Women in Film Crystal Award 2000
• Golden Globe Award Best Actress in a Mini-Series or a Made-for-Television Movie "A Streetcar Named Desire" 1995
• Golden Globe Award Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) "Blue Sky" 1994
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award Best Actress "Blue Sky" 1994
• Oscar Best Actress "Blue Sky" 1994
• Theatre World Award 1992
• Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actress "Tootsie" 1982
• National Society of Film Critics Award Best Supporting Actress "Tootsie" 1982
• New York Film Critics Circle Award Best Supporting Actress "Tootsie" 1982
• Oscar Best Supporting Actress "Tootsie" 1982
• Golden Globe Award Best Acting Debut-Female "King Kong" 1976