Jessica Lange

Jessica Phyllis Lange
1949 -
American born Cloquet, Minnesota

Height 5' 7½" (1.71 m) . Jessica Lange was born in 1949, in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA, where her father worked as a traveling salesman. She obtained a scholarship to study art at the University of Minnesota, but instead went to Paris to study drama. She moved to New York, working as a model, until producer Dino De Laurentiis cast her as the female lead in King Kong (1976). The film attracted much unfavorable comment and as a result Lange was off the screen for three years. She was given a small but showy part in ‘Bob Fosse’ ’s All That Jazz (1979), before giving a memorable performance in Bob Rafelson's _Postman Always Rings Twice, The_ (1981) , as an adulterous waitress. The following year she won rave reviews for her exceptional portrayal of actress Frances Farmer in Frances (1982) and a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her work in Sydney Pollack's Tootsie (1982) (as a beautiful soap-opera actress). She was also outstanding as country singer Patsy Cline in ‘Karel Reisz’ ’s Sweet Dreams (1985) and as a lawyer who defends her father and discovers his past in Music Box (1989). Other important films include Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991) (as a frightened housewife) and 'Tony Richardson' 's Blue Sky (1994), for which she won a Best Actress Academy Award as the mentally unbalanced wife of a military officer. She made her Broadway debut in 1992, playing Blanche in Tennessee Williams' ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. Spouse Paco Grande (1971 - 1981) (divorced).

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" (????) , 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)