"One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story."
Jessica Phyllis Lange (/læŋ/; born April 20, 1949 in Cloquet, Minnesota) is an American actress who has worked in film, theater and television.
The recipient of several awards, including two Oscars, three Emmys, five Golden Globes, one SAG Award, one Tony Award and three Dorian Awards, Lange is one of the most celebrated actors of the modern era. Most recently, she starred as the lead in the first four seasons of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's television horror anthology American Horror Story.
Her daughter, Shura Baryshnikov, is a dancer and actress in her own right.
Filmography (partial)
- King Kong (1976) as Dwan
- All That Jazz (1979) as Angelique
- How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980) as Louise
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) as Cora Smith
- Tootsie (1982) as Julie Nichols
- Frances (1982) as Frances Farmer
- Country (1984) as Jewell Ivy
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984) as Margaret “Maggie The Cat" Pollitt
- Crimes of the Heart (1986) as Beth
- Cape Fear (1991) as Leigh Bowden
- Blue Sky (1994) as Carly Marshall
- Rob Roy (1995) as Mary MacGregor
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1995) as Blanche DuBois
- Cousin Bette (1998) as Cousin Bette
- Titus (1999) as Tamora
- Big Fish (2003) as Sandra K. Bloom
- Normal as Irma Applewood
- Broken Flowers (2005) as Carmen Markowski
- Neverwas (2005) as Katherine Pierson
- American Horror Story (2011-14, 2018)
- American Horror Story: Murder House (2011) as Constance Langdon
- American Horror Story: Asylum (2012) as Sister Jude Martin
- American Horror Story: Coven (2013) as Fiona Goode
- American Horror Story: Freak Show (2014) as Elsa Mars
- American Horror Story: Apocalypse (2018) as Constance Langdon
- The Vow (2012) as Rita Thornton
- The Gambler (2014) as Roberta
- Feud: Bette and Joan (2017) as Joan Crawford
- The Politician (2019) as Dusty Jackson
- Marlowe (2022) as Dorothy Quincannon
- Feud: Capote vs. the Swans (2024) as Lillie Mae Faulk
