Jessica Phyllis Lange (/læŋ/; born April , ) is an American actress.
She is the th actress to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, having
won two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and one Tony
Award, along with a Screen Actors Guild Award and five Golden Globe
Awards. Additionally, she is the second actress to win the Academy
Award for Best Actress after winning the Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress, the third actress and first performer since to
receive two Oscar nominations in the same year, the fifth actress and
ninth performer to win Oscars in both the lead and supporting acting
categories, and tied for the sixth most Oscar-nominated actress. Lange
holds the record for most Golden Globe nominations in the Best Actress
in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television category. She is
the only performer ever to win Primetime Emmy Awards in both the
Outstanding Supporting Actress and Outstanding Lead Actress categories
for the same miniseries. Lange has also garnered a Critics Choice
Award and three Dorian Awards, making her the most honored actress by
the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association. In ,
Entertainment Weekly listed Lange among the Greatest Actresses of the
s. In , she was scheduled to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame, but she has yet to claim it.Lange made her professional film
debut in Dino De Laurentiis's remake of the action-adventure classic
King Kong, for which she also won her first Golden Globe Award for New
Star of the Year. In , 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 () and was also nominated for the Academy Award for
Best Actress for her portrayal of the troubled actress Frances Farmer
in Frances (). Lange received three more nominations for Country (),
Sweet Dreams () and Music Box (), before winning her third Golden
Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance
as a bipolar housewife in Blue Sky ().In , Lange won her first
Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's
aunt Big Edie in HBO's Grey Gardens (). Between and , 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
FX's horror anthology series American Horror Story (â€", ). In , 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 Day's Journey into Night.
She also had a supporting role in Louis C.K.'s Peabody Award-winning
web series Horace and Pete. In , for her portrayal of actress Joan
Crawford in the miniseries Feud, Lange received her eighth Emmy, th
Golden Globe, sixth Screen Actors Guild Award and second TCA Award
nominations. In , she received a tenth Emmy nomination for her
performance in American Horror Story: Apocalypse.
She is the th actress to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, having
won two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and one Tony
Award, along with a Screen Actors Guild Award and five Golden Globe
Awards. Additionally, she is the second actress to win the Academy
Award for Best Actress after winning the Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress, the third actress and first performer since to
receive two Oscar nominations in the same year, the fifth actress and
ninth performer to win Oscars in both the lead and supporting acting
categories, and tied for the sixth most Oscar-nominated actress. Lange
holds the record for most Golden Globe nominations in the Best Actress
in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television category. She is
the only performer ever to win Primetime Emmy Awards in both the
Outstanding Supporting Actress and Outstanding Lead Actress categories
for the same miniseries. Lange has also garnered a Critics Choice
Award and three Dorian Awards, making her the most honored actress by
the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association. In ,
Entertainment Weekly listed Lange among the Greatest Actresses of the
s. In , she was scheduled to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame, but she has yet to claim it.Lange made her professional film
debut in Dino De Laurentiis's remake of the action-adventure classic
King Kong, for which she also won her first Golden Globe Award for New
Star of the Year. In , 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 () and was also nominated for the Academy Award for
Best Actress for her portrayal of the troubled actress Frances Farmer
in Frances (). Lange received three more nominations for Country (),
Sweet Dreams () and Music Box (), before winning her third Golden
Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance
as a bipolar housewife in Blue Sky ().In , Lange won her first
Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's
aunt Big Edie in HBO's Grey Gardens (). Between and , 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
FX's horror anthology series American Horror Story (â€", ). In , 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 Day's Journey into Night.
She also had a supporting role in Louis C.K.'s Peabody Award-winning
web series Horace and Pete. In , for her portrayal of actress Joan
Crawford in the miniseries Feud, Lange received her eighth Emmy, th
Golden Globe, sixth Screen Actors Guild Award and second TCA Award
nominations. In , she received a tenth Emmy nomination for her
performance in American Horror Story: Apocalypse.
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