Jessica Lange is an American actress, film producer and photographer. She has been the recipient of numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, an Actor Award and five Golden Globe Awards. She is one of few performers who have been awarded a Triple Crown of Acting (Oscar, Tony and Emmy).
Lange's acting debut was in the monster movie King Kong (1976), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year â Actress. In 1982, she appeared in the biographical film Frances and the romantic comedy film Tootsie, becoming one of the few actors nominated for two Academy Awards in the same year. For Tootsie she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, along with the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress â Motion Picture, the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress and a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. In the following years, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles in Country (1984), Sweet Dreams (1985) and Music Box (1989). In 1992, she made her Broadway theatre debut with a revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, for which she received a Theatre World Award. For the film Blue Sky (1994), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture â Drama and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress. She also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress â Miniseries or Television Film for the television film A Streetcar Named Desire (1995). In 2001, she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for the West End theatre adaption of Long Day's Journey into Night.
After several years of critical and commercial failures, she starred in the television film Grey Gardens (2009), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. In 2011âÂÂ2015 she starred in the four seasons of the anthology television series American Horror Story. For its first season, ', she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress â Series, Miniseries or Television Film and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series. For the third season, ', she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. For the 2016 Broadway revival of Long Day's Journey into Night, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play.
She has received multiple numerous honorary accolades including the Donostia Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival (2002), the Chaplin Award from Film Society of Lincoln Center (2006), the Taormina Arte Award at the Taormina Film Fest (2009), the Kirk Douglas Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (2014), Krzysztof Kieà Âlowski Award for Acting at the Camerimage film festival (2016),, the CineMerit Award at the Filmfest München (2024), Drama League Award for Contribution to the Theater (2024) and the Volta Award at the Dublin International Film Festival (2025).