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{{Short description|American actress (born 1949)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Jessica Lange
| image              = Jessica Lange (Cropped).JPG
| caption            = Lange in 2008
| birth_name         = Jessica Phyllis Lange
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1949|4|20}}
| birth_place        = [[Cloquet, Minnesota]], U.S.
| occupation         = Actress
| years_active       = 1975–present
| works              = [[List of Jessica Lange performances|Full list]]
| spouse             = {{marriage|Paco Grande|July 27, 1970|July 1982|end=divorced}}
| partner            = [[Mikhail Baryshnikov]] (1976–1982)<br>[[Sam Shepard]] (1982–2009)
| children           = 3, including [[Shura Baryshnikov]]
| awards             = [[List of awards and nominations received by Jessica Lange|Full list]]
| website            = 
}}

'''Jessica Phyllis Lange''' ({{IPAc-en|l|æ|ŋ}}; born April&nbsp;20, 1949)<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2021/04/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-april-20-2021-includes-celebrities-george-takei-andy-serkis.html |title= Today's famous birthdays list for April 20, 2021 includes celebrities George Takei, Andy Serkis |publisher= [[Cleveland.com]] |date= April 20, 2021 |access-date= February 3, 2022 |archive-date= February 4, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220204023554/https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2021/04/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-april-20-2021-includes-celebrities-george-takei-andy-serkis.html |url-status= live }}</ref> is an American actress and photographer. With a career spanning over five decades, she is known for her roles [[Jessica Lange on screen and stage|on stage and screen]]. [[List of awards and nominations received by Jessica Lange|Her accolades]] include two [[Academy Awards]], five [[Golden Globe Awards]], three [[Primetime Emmy Awards]], and a [[Tony Award]], in addition to nominations for a [[BAFTA Award]] and a [[Laurence Olivier Award]]. Lange is one of few performers to achieve [[Triple Crown of Acting]] status.<ref>Multiple sources:
*{{cite web|url=https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/forget-egot-everything-need-know-esot-winners-164/|title=Forget EGOT – Here's Everything You Need to Know About ESOT Winners|website=[[Backstage.com]]|access-date=September 24, 2020|archive-date=March 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210316195721/https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/forget-egot-everything-need-know-esot-winners-164/|url-status=live}}
*{{cite web|url=https://www.insider.com/celebrities-one-award-away-from-egot-2019-1|title=10 celebrities who are just one award away from an EGOT|website=[[Insider.com]]|access-date=September 24, 2020|archive-date=August 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230801094535/https://www.insider.com/celebrities-one-award-away-from-egot-2019-1|url-status=live}}
*{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/forget-the-egot-only-22-actors-have-accomplished-this-more-impressive-feat/2017/02/21/bdd85036-d782-11e6-9f9f-5cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html|title=Only 22 people had ever accomplished this feat. Now, Viola Davis joins the club.|newspaper=[[Washington Post]]|access-date=September 24, 2020|archive-date=March 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301074223/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/forget-the-egot-only-22-actors-have-accomplished-this-more-impressive-feat/2017/02/21/bdd85036-d782-11e6-9f9f-5cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Lange made her professional film debut in the remake ''[[King Kong (1976 film)|King Kong]]'' (1976) which earned her the [[Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actress|Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year]]. Lange went on to receive two [[Academy Awards]], her first for [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] as a [[soap opera]] star in the comedy ''[[Tootsie]]'' (1982) and her second for [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] playing a [[Bipolar disorder|bipolar]] housewife in the drama ''[[Blue Sky (1994 film)|Blue Sky]]'' (1994).<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Aquilina|first=Tyler|url=https://ew.com/oscars/actors-and-actresses-nominated-two-oscars-same-year/|title=Scarlett Johansson joins an exclusive club with these Oscar-nominated actors and actresses|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=January 23, 2020|access-date=April 29, 2023}}</ref> Her other Oscar-nominated roles were for ''[[Frances (film)|Frances]]'' (1982), ''[[Country (film)|Country]]'' (1984), ''[[Sweet Dreams (1985 film)|Sweet Dreams]]'' (1985), and ''[[Music Box (film)|Music Box]]'' (1989). She also acted in films such as ''[[All That Jazz (film)|All That Jazz]]'' (1979), ''[[The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981 film)|The Postman Always Rings Twice]]'' (1981), ''[[Crimes of the Heart (film)|Crimes of the Heart]]'' (1986), ''[[Cape Fear (1991 film)|Cape Fear]]'' (1991), ''[[Rob Roy (1995 film)|Rob Roy]]'' (1995), ''[[Big Fish]]'' (2003), and ''[[Broken Flowers]]'' (2005).

For her roles on television she received her first [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie|Primetime Emmy Award]] for her portrayal of [[Big Edie]] in the [[HBO]] movie ''[[Grey Gardens (2009 film)|Grey Gardens]]'' (2009). Lange gained new recognition by starring in [[FX (TV channel)|FX]]'s horror [[anthology]], ''[[American Horror Story]]'' (2011–2014, 2018), which earned her two additional Primetime Emmys for its [[American Horror Story: Murder House|first]] and [[American Horror Story: Coven|third seasons]]. She was Emmy-nominated for her roles as [[Blanche DuBois]] in the [[CBS]] film ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (1995 film)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' (1995), a wife in the [[HBO]] television movie ''[[Normal (2003 film)|Normal]]'' (2003), and [[Joan Crawford]] in [[FX (TV channel)|FX]] the miniseries ''[[Feud (TV series)|Feud: Bette and Joan]]'' (2017).<ref>{{cite web|last=Shaw|first=Gabbi|url=https://www.insider.com/best-actress-oscar-winners-then-and-now-photos|title=Then and Now: 25 best actress Oscar winners|work=[[Business Insider|Insider]]|date=March 11, 2023|access-date=April 29, 2023|archive-date=August 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230801094542/https://www.insider.com/best-actress-oscar-winners-then-and-now-photos|url-status=live}}</ref> Lange has also acted in the television films ''[[O Pioneers! (film)|O Pioneers!]]'' (1992), and ''[[The Great Lillian Hall]]'' (2024) as well as the [[Netflix]] series ''[[The Politician (TV series)|The Politician]]'' (2019).

On stage, Lange made her [[Broadway (theatre)|Broadway]] debut as [[Blanche DuBois]] in the revival of the [[Tennessee Williams]] play ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' (1992). Lange won the [[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play]] for her role as [[Mary Cavan Tyrone]] in the Broadway revival of the [[Eugene O'Neill]] play ''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]'' (2016).<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2015/05/jessica-lange-gabriel-byrne-broadway-long-days-journey-into-night-1201432833/|title=Jessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne Will Take ''Long Day's Journey'' To Broadway|first=Jeremy|last=Gerard|date=May 26, 2015|work=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|access-date=April 29, 2023|archive-date=September 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930124334/https://deadline.com/2015/05/jessica-lange-gabriel-byrne-broadway-long-days-journey-into-night-1201432833/|url-status=live}}</ref> Lange returned to Broadway playing the hardheaded matriarch in the [[Paula Vogel]] play ''[[Mother Play]]'' (2024).<ref name="Mother Play">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/theater/jessica-lange-jim-parsons-paula-vogel-broadway.html|title=Jessica Lange Leads Starry Cast of New Paula Vogel Play on Broadway|website=The New York Times|date=September 6, 2023}}</ref>

As a photographer, Lange has five published [[Photo-book|books of photography]].<ref name="nytimes_2019-09-25">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/arts/design/jessica-lange-photography.html|title=Highway 61 Revisited, With Jessica Lange|work=[[The New York Times]]|at=nytimes.com|first=Ted|last=Loos|date=September 26, 2019|access-date=October 7, 2020|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116002853/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/arts/design/jessica-lange-photography.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Multiple sources
*{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jessica-lange-publish-photography-book-chronicling-highway-61-1225350|title=Jessica Lange to Publish Photography Book Chronicling Highway 61|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|at=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Katie|last=Kilkenny|date=July 18, 2019|access-date=October 6, 2020|archive-date=October 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011052900/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jessica-lange-publish-photography-book-chronicling-highway-61-1225350|url-status=live}}
*{{cite web|url=https://nymag.com/arts/books/features/52153/|title=Shooting Star: The Debut Of Jessica Lange, Photographer|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|at=nymag.com|first=Amy|last=Larocca|date=November 16, 2008|access-date=May 11, 2011|archive-date=November 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111134258/http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/52153/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Dérive_Simon&Schuster">{{cite book |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Derive/Jessica-Lange/9781648230226 |title=Dérive: Photographs by Jessica Lange |work=[[powerHouse Books]] |isbn=9781648230226 |at=www.simonandschuster.com |access-date=September 13, 2022 |last1=Lange |first1=Jessica |date=November 8, 2022 |publisher=powerHouse Books |archive-date=September 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913150946/https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Derive/Jessica-Lange/9781648230226 |url-status=live }}</ref> She has been a foster parent<ref name="independent.co.uk">{{cite news|author=Jennifer Rodger|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-in-focus-jessica-lange-1164205.html|title=Film: In Focus: Jessica Lange – Arts & Entertainment|work=[[The Independent]]|date=June 11, 1998|access-date=August 9, 2013|location=London|archive-date=September 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180910205428/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-in-focus-jessica-lange-1164205.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> and holds a [[Goodwill Ambassador]] position for [[UNICEF]], specializing in HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Russia.<ref name="unicef1">{{cite web|url=http://www.unicef.org/people/people_jessica_lange.html|title=Jessica Lange|work=UNICEF |at=unicef.org|date=November 16, 2008|access-date=May 11, 2011|archive-date=March 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310083951/http://www.unicef.org/people/people_jessica_lange.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="unicef2">{{cite web|url=http://www.unicef.org/aids/russia_34029.html|title=Jessica Lange Visits Russia|publisher=UNICEF|at=unicef.org|date=November 16, 2008|access-date=May 11, 2011|archive-date=September 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911044625/https://www.unicef.org/aids/russia_34029.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Jessica Phyllis Lange was born on April 20, 1949, in [[Cloquet, Minnesota]]. Her father, Albert John Lange, was a teacher and traveling salesman, and her mother, Dorothy Florence (née Sahlman), was a housewife. She has two older sisters, Jane and Ann, and a younger brother, George.<ref name="tcm">{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/108398%7C0/Jessica-Lange/#family-companions|title=Family & Companions|publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]]|access-date=December 7, 2022|archive-date=April 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421215317/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/108398%7C0/Jessica-Lange/#family-companions|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her paternal ancestry is German and Dutch, her maternal ancestry Finnish.<ref>{{harvnb|Uzarowski|2023|p=2}}: Paternal ancestry “somewhat unclear,” her grandfather from [[Żagań, Poland]], formerly part of [[Prussia]]. And p. 2-3: Lang’s mother from “proud Finnish stock,” her father George Sahlman immigrating from [[Kuopio, Finland]]</ref><ref>Multiple sources:

* {{cite web |title=Jessica Lange |url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/celeb/lange.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023214018/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/celeb/lange.htm |archive-date=October 23, 2007 |access-date=August 9, 2013 |publisher=Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com}}
* {{Cite news |last=Brennan |first=Patricia |date=1992-02-02 |title='O Pioneers!' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/tv/1992/02/02/o-pioneers/c57c057a-f498-485d-ae2b-acaf6896ce9b/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286 |quote=I'm half Finnish and half Dutch and German.}}
* {{Cite news |last=Lyke |first=M. L. |date=January 16, 1990 |title=The Yin and Yang of Jessica Lange Actress Often Defies Her Glamorous Image |url=https://seattlepi.newsbank.com/doc/news/0EB0495622984273 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250429024410/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AMNEWS&docref=news/0EB0495622984273&f=basic |archive-date=2025-04-29 |access-date=2025-04-29 |work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] |via=[[NewsBank]]}}</ref> Due to the nature of her father's professions, her family moved more than a dozen times to various towns and cities in Minnesota before settling down in her hometown, where she graduated from [[Cloquet High School]].<ref name="Los Angeles Times">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-19-ca-44583-story.html |title=Steeled Magnolia : It seems as if Jessica Lange is a supermarket shelf of emotions. And that doesn't even count what she manages to do on the screen |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 19, 1995 |access-date=August 9, 2013 |first=Kristine |last=McKenna |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054505/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-19/entertainment/ca-44583_1_jessica-lange |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Uzarowski|2023|pp=2,3}}: "...a lack of stability and economic security" due to her father’s transience jobs</ref>

In 1967, she received a scholarship to study art and photography at the [[University of Minnesota]], where she met and began dating Spanish photographer Paco Grande.<ref name="independent.co.uk" /> After the two married in 1970, Lange dropped out of college to pursue a more bohemian lifestyle, traveling through the United States and Mexico in a [[microbus]] with Grande.<ref name="independent.co.uk" /><ref name="Los Angeles Times" /> The pair then moved to Paris, where they drifted apart. While in Paris, Lange studied [[Corporeal mime|mime theater]] under the supervision of [[Étienne Decroux]] and joined the [[Opéra-Comique]] as a dancer.<ref name="independent.co.uk" /> She later studied acting with [[Mira Rostova]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Grode |first=Eric |date=2009-02-06 |title=Mira Rostova, Coach to Montgomery Clift, Dies at 99 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/movies/06rostova.html |access-date=2023-04-17 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=April 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423054832/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/movies/06rostova.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and at [[HB Studio]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://hbstudio.org/about-hb-studio/alumni/ |title=HB Studio – Notable Alumni |access-date=March 14, 2019 |archive-date=February 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212150453/https://hbstudio.org/about-hb-studio/alumni/ |url-status=live }}</ref> in New York City.

==Career==
===1976–1989: Breakthrough and acclaim  ===
While living in Paris, Lange was discovered by fashion illustrator [[Antonio Lopez (illustrator)|Antonio Lopez]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/fashion/drawn-again-to-the-images-of-the-illustrator-antonio-lopez.html|title=Drawn to His Shining Light|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=August 9, 2013|first=Guy|last=Trebay|date=August 29, 2012|archive-date=September 6, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120906204854/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/fashion/drawn-again-to-the-images-of-the-illustrator-antonio-lopez.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and became a model for the [[Wilhelmina Models|Wilhelmina modelling agency]]. In 1973, she returned to the U.S. and began work in New York City as a waitress at the Lion's Head Tavern in [[Greenwich Village]].<ref name="independent.co.uk"/> While modeling, Lange was discovered by Hollywood producer [[Dino De Laurentiis]], who was looking to cast an [[ingenue (stock character)|ingenue]] for his remake of ''[[King Kong (1933 film)|King Kong]]''. Lange made her film debut in the 1976 ''[[King Kong (1976 film)|King Kong]]'', beating actresses [[Meryl Streep]] and [[Goldie Hawn]] for the role of ''damsel-in-distress''.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}} Despite the film's success{{snd}}it was the fifth-highest-grossing film of 1976 and received an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects{{snd}}it and Lange's performance were widely panned.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.biography.com/people/jessica-lange-9373026 |title=Jessica Lange Biography – Facts, Birthday, Life Story |publisher=Biography.com |date=April 20, 1949 |access-date=August 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121231005702/http://www.biography.com/people/jessica-lange-9373026 |archive-date=December 31, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> But film critic [[Pauline Kael]] wrote, "The movie is sparked by Jessica Lange's fast yet dreamy comic style. [She] has the high, wide forehead and clear-eyed transparency of [[Carole Lombard]] in ''[[My Man Godfrey]]'', [and] one liners so dumb that the audience laughs and moans at the same time, yet they're in character, and when Lange says them she holds the eye and you like her, the way people liked Lombard."<ref name="newyorker.com">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1977/01/03/heres-to-the-big-one|title = Here's to the Big One|magazine = [[The New Yorker]]|date = December 27, 1976}}</ref> Lange won the 1976 [[Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress|Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year]]. She remained a favorite of Kael, who later wrote, "She has a facial structure that the camera yearns for, and she has talent, too."<ref name="Kael">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/archive/1982/12/27/1982_12_27_068_TNY_CARDS_000123814|title=The Current Cinema: ''Tootsie'', ''Gandhi'', and ''Sophie''|last=Kael|first=Pauline|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|date=December 20, 1982|access-date=August 9, 2013}}</ref>

At the close of the decade, [[Bob Fosse]], whom Lange had befriended and with whom she had carried on a casual romantic affair, cast Lange as Angelique, the Angel of Death, a part he had written for her in his semi-autobiographical film ''[[All That Jazz (film)|All That Jazz]]'' (1979). She was also considered for the role of Wendy Torrance in [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s horror film ''[[The Shining (film)|The Shining]]'' (1980) before it went to [[Shelley Duvall]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://screenrant.com/shining-movie-wendy-torrance-duvall-jessica-lange/|title= How AHS' Jessica Lange Was Almost In The Shining (& Why She Wasn't Cast)|website= Screenrant|date= December 30, 2020|accessdate= August 26, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Uzarowski|2023|p=59}}</ref>

Lange began the new decade in the light romp ''[[How to Beat the High Cost of Living]]'' (1980), co-starring [[Jane Curtin]] and [[Susan Saint James]], which received mostly negative reviews and quickly disappeared from theaters. A year later, director [[Bob Rafelson]] contacted her about a project he was working on with [[Jack Nicholson]], who had recently auditioned Lange for ''[[Goin' South]]'' (1978). Rafelson paid Lange a visit in upstate New York, where she was doing [[summer stock theater]] and has recounted how he watched her conversing on the telephone for half an hour before their meeting when he decided he had found the lead for his film. After meeting Lange, he wrote her name down on a piece of paper, placed it in an envelope, and sealed it. After several meetings and auditions with other actresses (though Rafelson had already made his decision, he feared he had done so too quickly and wanted to make sure his choice was right), the final choice was between Lange and Meryl Streep. In the end, Rafelson offered Lange the lead role opposite Nicholson in his remake of the classic [[film noir]] ''[[The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981 film)|The Postman Always Rings Twice]]'' (1981).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/28062%257C0/Goin-South.html|title=Goin' South|publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924162726/https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/28062%7C0/Goin-South.html|archive-date=September 24, 2015|url-status=dead|access-date=August 9, 2013}}</ref> Upon offering her the part, he gave her the sealed envelope. The film received mixed reviews, but Lange was highly praised for her performance.

While editing ''The Postman Always Rings Twice,'' [[Graeme Clifford]] realized he had found the leading lady for his next film, his first as a director: a biographical film of actress [[Frances Farmer]], whose disillusionment with Hollywood and chaotic family background led her down a tragic path.<ref name="oocities.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.oocities.org/~themistyone/making.htm |title=Frances Farmer The Making of Frances |publisher=Oocities.org |date=March 21, 1983 |access-date=August 9, 2013 |archive-date=December 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202234850/http://www.oocities.org/~themistyone/making.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Filming ''[[Frances (film)|Frances]]'' (1982), which co-starred [[Kim Stanley]] and [[Sam Shepard]], was a grueling experience for Lange, who pored over the screenplay scene by scene, making deep and often taxing connections between her life and Farmer's to tap into the well of emotions the role required.<ref name="oocities.org" /> By the end of the shoot, she was physically and mentally spent,<ref name="oocities.org" /> and decided to take Stanley's advice to do "something light," which led her to accept a supporting role opposite [[Dustin Hoffman]] in [[Sydney Pollack]]'s ''[[Tootsie]]'' (1982).

In 1982, Lange became the first performer in 40 years to receive two Academy Award nominations in the same year,<ref name=flynn>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qvRVB9_7MjwC&q=%22jessica+lange%22+photographer|title=Famous Minnesotans: Past and Present|year=2005|page=137|quote=(see p.14)|first=Dan|last=Flynn|publisher=Nodin Press |author-link=Danny Flynn (printer)|access-date=September 3, 2012|isbn=9781932472295|archive-date=August 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230801094535/https://books.google.com/books?id=qvRVB9_7MjwC&q=%22jessica+lange%22+photographer|url-status=live}}</ref> for ''Frances'' and for ''Tootsie,'' winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the latter, which not only became the second-highest-grossing film of 1982 after [[Steven Spielberg]]'s ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]'', it also scored an additional nine Oscar nominations, including one for [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]. Her performance in the film also earned her a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture|Golden Globe]], along with awards from the [[National Society of Film Critics]], the [[New York Film Critics Circle]], the [[Boston Society of Film Critics]], and the Kansas City Film Critics Circle. Lange also won Best Actress at the [[Moscow International Film Festival]] for her performance in ''Frances''.<ref name=flynn />

Lange next produced and starred, again opposite Shepard, in 1984's ''[[Country (film)|Country]],'' a [[Social problem film|topical film]] depicting a family during the [[farm crisis of the 1980s|farm crisis]]. Her performance earned her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress. That same year, she made her television debut as Maggie the Cat, starring opposite [[Tommy Lee Jones]] in a [[CBS]] ''Playhouse'' production of [[Tennessee Williams]]'s ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984 film)|Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]''. The following year, she testified before the [[United States Congress]] on behalf of the Democratic House Task Force on Agriculture, alongside [[Jane Fonda]] and [[Sissy Spacek]], whom she later befriended.<ref name="Farmer'sCrisis">{{cite news|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-05-10/news/8501300749_1_jane-fonda-testifying-lee-marvin|title=Jessica Lange – Testimony|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=October 17, 2011|first=Michael|last=Kilian|date=May 10, 1985|archive-date=August 8, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808163013/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-05-10/news/8501300749_1_jane-fonda-testifying-lee-marvin|url-status=dead}}</ref>

At the close of 1985, she portrayed legendary [[country singer]] [[Patsy Cline]] in [[Karel Reisz]]'s biopic ''[[Sweet Dreams (1985 film)|Sweet Dreams]]'', opposite [[Ed Harris]], [[Ann Wedgeworth]], [[Gary Basaraba]], and [[John Goodman]]. She was nominated a fourth time for an Oscar and came in second for both the [[National Board of Review Award for Best Actress]] and the [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wXdkAAAAIBAJ&pg=2103,1354226|title=US critics pick Ran as best film|access-date=August 9, 2013|archive-date=October 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027211617/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wXdkAAAAIBAJ&pg=2103,1354226|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Lyman |first=Rick |date=January 12, 1986 |title=At the movies: No one film is a runaway favorite for oscars |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-at-the-movies/171317487/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |work=Philadelphia Inquirer |page=2F |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> In several interviews, Meryl Streep has said she "begged" Reisz, who directed her in 1981's ''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)|The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'', for the role of Cline, but his first choice had always been Lange. Streep has been quite vocal and adamant in her praise for Lange's performance,<ref name="StreepPraisesLange">{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/meryl-streep-stephen-colbert-donald-trump-1203071793/ |title=Meryl Streep Talks Trump, 'A Star Is Born' for 'An Evening With Stephen Colbert' |last=Morefoot |first=Addie |date=December 2, 2018 |website=Variety |access-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-date=December 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203144225/https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/meryl-streep-stephen-colbert-donald-trump-1203071793/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="StreepPraisesLange2">{{cite web |url=https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/standing-ovation-jessica-lange-sweet-dreams-11867/ |title=Standing Ovation: Jessica Lange in 'Sweet Dreams' |last=Kinser |first=Jeremy |date=November 4, 2015 |website=backstage.com |access-date=October 12, 2020 |archive-date=April 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200406173323/https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/standing-ovation-jessica-lange-sweet-dreams-11867/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="StreepPraisesLange3">{{cite AV media |url=https://www.bravotv.com/watch-what-happens-live-with-andy-cohen/season-7/episode-35/videos/after-show-more-meryl | title=After Show: More Meryl!! |date=August 9, 2012 |website=bravotv.com |access-date=October 12, 2020}}</ref><ref name="StreepPraisesLange4">{{cite web |url=http://the-talks.com/interviews/meryl-streep/ |title=Meryl Streep: "I'm not always happy" |date=July 13, 2011 |publisher=The Talks |access-date=October 17, 2011 |archive-date=October 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111010021304/http://the-talks.com/interviews/meryl-streep/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="StreepPraisesLange5">{{cite web |url=http://www.reelz.com/article/800/interview-with-doubt-star-meryl-streep/|title=Interview with "Doubt" star, Meryl Streep |publisher=[[ReelzChannel]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904073936/http://www.reelz.com/article/800/interview-with-doubt-star-meryl-streep/|archive-date=September 4, 2015|url-status=dead|access-date=October 17, 2011}}</ref><ref name="StreepPraisesLange6">{{cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000552277|title=Meryl Streep, actress|author=Wolf Schneider|date=June 10, 2004|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|access-date=October 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808140136/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000552277|archive-date=August 8, 2007}}</ref> calling her "beyond wonderful" in the film and saying, "I couldn't imagine doing it as well or even coming close to what Jessica did because she was so amazing in it."<ref name="StreepPraisesLange2"/> In 2012, on an episode of ''[[Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen]]'', Streep once again praised Lange's work in the film, saying, "Nobody could do that better than [Lange]. I mean, it was divine."<ref name="StreepPraisesLange3"/> In 2018, she further commented, "Jessica did it better than any human being could possibly have done it."<ref name="StreepPraisesLange" /> Streep has also said, "Every job I've ever taken, about three weeks before I begin, I call up my agent and say, 'I don't think I can do this. I don't think I'm right for it. They should call up Jessica Lange.'&nbsp;"<ref name="StreepPraisesLange7">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/whqATHvd9Ew Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120223175214/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whqATHvd9Ew&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whqATHvd9Ew |title=An Evening of Conversation with Meryl Streep and Jane Pauley Part 10 |website=YouTube |access-date=October 12, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Lange's films in the mid- to late 1980s, which included ''[[Crimes of the Heart (film)|Crimes of the Heart]]'' (1986), ''[[Far North (1988 film)|Far North]]'' (1988), and ''[[Everybody's All-American (film)|Everybody's All-American]]'' (1989), were mostly low-profile and underperformed at the box office, though she was often singled out and praised for her work.{{Citation needed|date=December 2012}} In 1989, she starred in [[Costa-Gavras]]'s ''[[Music Box (film)|Music Box]]'' as a Hungarian lawyer defending her father of [[Nazi]] [[war crimes]]. Her performance earned her a fifth Academy Award nomination and a sixth Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.

===1990–2008: Established actress ===
[[File:Jessica Lange on the red carpet at the 62nd Annual Academy Awards cropped.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Lange at the [[62nd Academy Awards]] in 1990]]
Lange continued making films throughout the 1990s, periodically taking time off to raise her children and do theater- and television-based projects. She began the decade in [[Paul Brickman]]'s warmly received ''[[Men Don't Leave]]'' (1990), for which she earned positive reviews and came in third place for the [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Carr |first=Jay |date=January 7, 1991 |title='GoodFellas' is national critics' choice |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-goodfellas-is-nationa/171317556/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |work=Boston Globe |page=38 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> She was then approached by [[Martin Scorsese]] and [[Robert De Niro]], who had both auditioned her for the role of [[Jake LaMotta]]'s wife in ''[[Raging Bull]]'' (1980), to star in a remake of ''[[Cape Fear (1991 film)|Cape Fear]]'' (1991). The film was the year's 12th- highest-grossing film. In 1992, Lange once again starred opposite De Niro in [[Irwin Winkler]]'s ''[[Night and the City (1992 film)|Night and the City]]'', and in a television adaptation of [[Willa Cather]]'s ''[[O Pioneers!]]'', receiving her seventh Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Lange made her [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] debut, which met mixed reviews portraying [[Blanche DuBois]] in a production of [[Tennessee Williams]]'s ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' opposite [[Alec Baldwin]]. Critics rebuked her performance, with the [[Boston Globe]] stating "Jessica Lange is learning a new craft—theatre—at Blanche’s expense, and ours."<ref>{{harvnb|Uzarowski|2023|p=136}}: "...reviews [for the production] were mixed. Most critics were less than kind to Jessica…the Boston Globe summed up the response."</ref>

In 1994, Lange was lauded for her performance as a [[manic depressive]] army wife in the 1960s in [[Tony Richardson]]'s final film, ''[[Blue Sky (1994 film)|Blue Sky]]''.<ref>{{harvnb|Uzarowski|2023|p=143}}: Lange's performance in Blue Sky "received some of the most glowing reviews of her career…"</ref> In 1995, she won the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for this performance, along with the [[Golden Globe Award]] for Best Actress, the [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress]], the Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, and the [[Sant Jordi Award]] for Best Actress. She also came in second place for the [[National Board of Review Award for Best Actress]], the [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress]], and the [[Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress]]. She became the second actress, after Streep, to follow a Best Supporting Actress Oscar with a Best Actress Oscar, an achievement not repeated until nearly 20 years later by [[Cate Blanchett]]. Despite its critical praise, and despite Lange's Oscar-winning performance ''Blue Sky'' was not a box office success.<ref>{{harvnb|Uzarowski|2023|p=143}}: "...never became a box office hit…" And p. 145: Grossed $3 million, compared to that year's [[Forrest Gump]] (1994), at $300 million.</ref>

In 1995, Lange gave critically lauded performances in ''[[Losing Isaiah]]'', opposite [[Halle Berry]], and ''[[Rob Roy (1995 film)|Rob Roy]]'', with [[Liam Neeson]]. The same year, she reprised her role as Blanche DuBois in a CBS television adaptation of ''A Streetcar Named Desire'', opposite Alec Baldwin, [[Diane Lane]], and John Goodman. She received glowing reviews for her performance, which earned her fourth Golden Globe Award and her first [[Primetime Emmy Award]] nomination for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie|Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie]].

In 1996, Lange made her London stage debut in another performance as Blanche DuBois, which received rave reviews. The next year, she starred opposite [[Michelle Pfeiffer]] in a film adaptation of [[Jane Smiley]]'s [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning novel ''[[A Thousand Acres (film)|A Thousand Acres]]''. Lange received her ninth Golden Globe Award nomination and won the [[Venice Film Festival]]'s Schermi d'Amore award for her performance in the film. In 1998, she starred opposite [[Elisabeth Shue]] in a film adaptation of [[Honoré de Balzac|Balzac]]'s ''[[Cousin Bette (1998 film)|Cousin Bette]]'', for which she received strong reviews. The same year, Lange starred opposite [[Gwyneth Paltrow]] in ''[[Hush (1998 film)|Hush]]'', which generally received negative reviews, though [[Roger Ebert]] praised Lange's performance, writing, "The film's most intriguing element is the performance by Jessica Lange, who by not going over the top provides Martha with a little pathos to leaven the psychopathology."<ref name="EbertonHush">{{cite news|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19980306/REVIEWS/803060302/1023|title="Hush" film review|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|access-date=October 17, 2011|date=March 6, 1998|archive-date=June 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061646/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19980306%2FREVIEWS%2F803060302%2F1023|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Lange received strong reviews for her performance in ''[[Titus (film)|Titus]]'', [[Julie Taymor]]'s 1999 adaptation of [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Titus Andronicus]]'', co-starring [[Anthony Hopkins]] and [[Alan Cumming]]. ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' critic [[Lisa Schwarzbaum]] included Lange in a "for your consideration" article directed at the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]], writing, "Jessica Lange already has two Oscars and six nominations to her credit, so her appearance near the words 'Academy Awards' should never be a surprise. But everything about her daring performance in ''Titus'' as Tamora, the Queen of the Goths, is an astonishment. Donning breastplates, vowing vengeance, tearing into Shakespeare for the first time as if nothing could be more fun, Lange steals the show{{snd}}and when the star of the show is Anthony Hopkins, that's grand theft."<ref name="TitusSpecialReview">{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/2000/01/14/oscars-2000-best-supporting-actress/ |title=Oscars 2000: Best Supporting Actress |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=January 14, 2000 |access-date=October 21, 2019 |archive-date=October 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021055314/https://ew.com/article/2000/01/14/oscars-2000-best-supporting-actress/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[File:Taormina film festival 2009, jessica lange 02.JPG|thumb|upright|180px|Lange (2009)]]
Lange began the new millennium with a London stage production of [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s ''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]'', playing the part of the [[morphine]]-addicted family matriarch Mary Tyrone, for which she became the first American actress to receive an [[Olivier Award]] nomination.<ref>{{cite news |title=Oscar-winner Jessica Lange will return to Broadway |work=BBC News |date=May 27, 2015 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32897043 |access-date=August 2, 2021 |archive-date=August 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802153106/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32897043 |url-status=live }}</ref> She appeared mostly in supporting roles thereafter, most notably opposite [[Christina Ricci]] in [[Prozac Nation (film)|the 2001 adaptation]] of [[Elizabeth Wurtzel]]'s best-selling memoir on [[Major depressive disorder|depression]], ''[[Prozac Nation]]''. In 2003, Lange starred opposite [[Tom Wilkinson]] in HBO's ''[[Normal (2003 film)|Normal]]'', a film about a man who reveals to his wife his decision to have a sex change, for which she received nominations for the Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie. She followed this with performances in the [[Bob Dylan]] vehicle ''[[Masked and Anonymous]]'' (2003), [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Big Fish]]'' (2003), [[Jim Jarmusch]]'s ''[[Broken Flowers]]'' (2005) and [[Wim Wenders]]'s ''[[Don't Come Knocking]]'' (2005), before starring in a Broadway revival of [[Tennessee Williams]]'s ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' for which she received mixed reviews.{{citation needed|date=December 2012}} She later starred with [[Tammy Blanchard]] in a remake of ''[[Sybil (2007 film)|Sybil]]'' in 2007.

=== 2009–2015: Career resurgence === 
In 2009, Lange co-starred as [[Big Edie]], opposite [[Drew Barrymore]], in [[HBO]]'s ''[[Grey Gardens (2009 film)|Grey Gardens]]'', directed by [[Michael Sucsy]] and based on the 1975 documentary of the same name. The film was a tremendous success, garnering 17 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and winning five. Lange won her first [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie]] after two previous nominations in the same category. She also received her 11th Golden Globe Award nomination and second Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for her performance, losing both awards to Barrymore.

In 2011, Lange joined the cast of [[FX (TV channel)|FX]]'s horror [[anthology series]] ''[[American Horror Story]]''. Series co-creators [[Ryan Murphy (producer)|Ryan Murphy]] and [[Brad Falchuk]] originally wrote her part as a supporting character, but after Lange acquired the role, they expanded it. Murphy, a long-time admirer of Lange, said he chose her because he wanted to expose her work to a new generation of viewers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2012/10/17/163012529/jessica-lange-back-in-black-for-horror-story/ |title=Jessica Lange, Back in Black For 'Horror Story' |publisher=NPR |date=October 17, 2012 |access-date=August 9, 2013 |archive-date=February 22, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222180546/http://www.npr.org/2012/10/17/163012529/jessica-lange-back-in-black-for-horror-story/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He also singled out her performance as Blanche DuBois on Broadway in 1992, which he saw twice, as his favorite performance, citing it as another motivating factor in hiring Lange.<ref name="MurphyonLange">{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/News/American-Horror-Story-1038255.aspx|title=6 Things That Inspired 'American Horror Story'|last=Martin|first=Denise|date=September 29, 2011|work=[[TV Guide]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106201343/https://www.tvguide.com/news/american-horror-story-1038255/|archive-date=November 6, 2018|url-status=live|access-date=October 17, 2011}}</ref> The show was a huge success not only for the network and creators but also for Lange, who experienced a resurgence in her popularity, receiving rave reviews and several awards for her controversial role. She was chosen by ''[[TV Guide]]'', ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', and ''[[MTV]]'' for giving one of the "best performances of 2011".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Beard |first=Lanford |url=https://ew.com/article/2011/12/15/this-weeks-cover-the-best-and-worst-of-2011/|title=This Week's Cover: The Best and Worst of 2011 – Movies, TV, Music, Books, and more|magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=December 15, 2011 |access-date=October 21, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/photos/best-tv-characters-2011/1675331/6765683/photo.jhtml |title=Constance in ''American Horror Story'', played by Jessica Lange |publisher=MTV |access-date=August 9, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131008202453/http://www.mtv.com/photos/best-tv-characters-2011/1675331/6765683/photo.jhtml |archive-date=October 8, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tvguide.com/PhotoGallery/Best-Performances-1039823/1039859 |title=Best of the Year – Best Performances Pictures, Jessica Lange Photos – Photo Gallery: The Best Performances of 2011 |work=TV Guide |date=November 28, 2012 |access-date=August 9, 2013 |archive-date=July 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728194909/http://www.tvguide.com/PhotoGallery/Best-Performances-1039823/1039859 |url-status=live }}</ref> In addition, she won a second [[Primetime Emmy Award]], a fifth [[Golden Globe Award]], and her first [[Screen Actors Guild Award]], after two previous nominations. She was also awarded a Special Achievement [[Satellite Award]] for Outstanding Performance in a Television Series by the [[International Press Academy]] and the [[Dorian Awards|Dorian Award]] for Best TV Performance of the Year by the ''Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association'' (GALECA). She was further nominated for the [[TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama]], [[Critics' Choice Television Award]], and [[Saturn Award]].

[[File:Jessica Lange 2012.jpg|thumb|Lange in 2012]]
In 2012, she had a supporting role in her ''Grey Gardens'' director Michael Suscy's box-office hit ''[[The Vow (2012 film)|The Vow]]'', opposite [[Channing Tatum]] and [[Rachel McAdams]], but also returned to star as the lead in the second season of ''American Horror Story'', titled ''[[American Horror Story: Asylum]]''. Once again, she was chosen by ''TV Guide'' and ''Entertainment Weekly'' for giving one of the "best performances of 2012".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Beard |first=Lanford |url=https://ew.com/article/2012/12/19/ew-cover-best-and-worst-2012/ |title=EW – 2012 Best and Worst cover |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=December 19, 2012 |access-date=August 9, 2013 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>''TV Guide'', "Cheers & Jeers{{snd}}2012's Best & Worst in TV" issue, December 24, 2012, ''TV Guide''</ref> She won a second Dorian Award for Best TV Performance of the Year by the GALECA, and received a fifth Emmy nomination, a thirteenth Golden Globe Award nomination, a fourth Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, a second Saturn Award nomination, and a second Critics' Choice Television Award nomination.

In 2013, the third season of ''American Horror Story'', ''[[American Horror Story: Coven]]'', garnered the series its highest ratings to that point, and has held the record for garnering the series its highest on-average ratings.<ref>{{cite news |last=Beard |first=Lanford |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/10/american-horror-story-coven-ratings_n_4079168.html |title='American Horror Story: Coven' Ratings: 5.5 Million Viewers Under Show's Spell; Huffingtonpost.com |work=HuffPost |date=October 10, 2013 |access-date=February 8, 2015 |archive-date=February 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208235920/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/10/american-horror-story-coven-ratings_n_4079168.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Lange was joined by fellow film actors [[Kathy Bates]] and [[Angela Bassett]]. For her work on the show, Lange earned a third [[Primetime Emmy Award|Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Movie or Miniseries]],<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Beard |first=Lanford |url=https://www.ew.com/article/2014/08/25/jessica-lange-wins-miniseries-or-movie-lead-actress-emmy |title=Jessica Lange wins Miniseries or Movie Lead Actress Emmy |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=August 25, 2014 |access-date=February 8, 2015 |archive-date=February 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208225200/http://www.ew.com/article/2014/08/25/jessica-lange-wins-miniseries-or-movie-lead-actress-emmy |url-status=dead }}</ref> a third [[Dorian Awards|Dorian Award]] for Best TV Performance of the Year<ref>{{cite news |last=Beard |first=Lanford |url=http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/21/12-years-a-slave-wins-big-at-dorian-awards |title='12 Years a Slave' wins big at Dorian Awards |newspaper=Toronto Sun |date=December 21, 2014 |access-date=February 8, 2015 |archive-date=February 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208225122/http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/21/12-years-a-slave-wins-big-at-dorian-awards |url-status=live }}</ref> and her first [[Critics' Choice Television Award|Critic's Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Movie or Miniseries]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Beard |first=Lanford |url=https://variety.com/2014/tv/news/critics-choice-awards-scandal-breaking-bad-orange-is-the-new-black-1201224259/ |title=Critics' Choice Awards: ''Breaking Bad'', ''OITNB'', ''Fargo'', ''Normal Heart'' Among Top Winners; variety.com |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=June 19, 2014 |access-date=February 8, 2015 |archive-date=November 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106180043/http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/critics-choice-awards-scandal-breaking-bad-orange-is-the-new-black-1201224259/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She also received her fourteenth Golden Globe nomination, her fifth Screen Actors Guild Award nomination and her fifth Satellite Award nomination for her performance on the series. In addition, Lange replaced [[Glenn Close]] in a film adaptation of [[Émile Zola]]'s ''[[Thérèse Raquin]]'', directed by Charlie Stratton and titled ''[[In Secret (film)|In Secret]]'', co-starring [[Elizabeth Olsen]], [[Tom Felton]], [[Oscar Isaac]], and [[Matt Lucas]] for which she received rave reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2013/06/therese-movie-elizabeth-olsen-release-date-september-27-ld-entertainment-519394/|title=LD Entertainment to Release Elizabeth Olsen-Starrer ''Therese'' on Sept 27|date=June 12, 2013|author=Editorial Team|work=Deadline Hollywood|at=deadline.com|publisher=PMC|access-date=June 14, 2013|archive-date=December 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203002636/http://www.deadline.com/2013/06/therese-movie-elizabeth-olsen-release-date-september-27-ld-entertainment/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Lange began 2014 by being honored with a nomination for a star on [[The Hollywood Walk of Fame]], though she has yet to claim it.<ref name="WalkOfFame">{{cite news |last=Beard |first=Lanford |url=https://variety.com/2013/biz/awards/walk-of-fame-announces-2014-honorees-1200500182// |title=Walk of Fame Announces 2014 Honorees |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=June 23, 2013 |access-date=February 8, 2015 |archive-date=January 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126113855/https://variety.com/2013/biz/awards/walk-of-fame-announces-2014-honorees-1200500182/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Lange was also recognized by ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle Magazine]]'' with the [[L'Oreal Paris|L'Oreal de Paris Legend Award]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Beard |first=Lanford |url=https://variety.com/2014/scene/news/jessica-lange-tina-fey-jennifer-lawrence-elle-women-in-hollywood-1201335569/ |title=Jessica Lange: 'Acting Has Been an Escape Into the Imagination' |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=October 21, 2014 |access-date=February 8, 2015 |archive-date=February 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208130129/http://variety.com/2014/scene/news/jessica-lange-tina-fey-jennifer-lawrence-elle-women-in-hollywood-1201335569/ |url-status=live }}</ref> presented to her by her friend [[Shirley MacLaine]] during ''The Women in Hollywood Awards'', honoring women for their outstanding achievements in film, spanning all aspects of the motion picture industry, including acting, directing, and producing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/g8789/women-in-hollywood-2014/|title=Meet ELLE's 2014 Women in Hollywood|date=October 15, 2014|access-date=October 20, 2015|archive-date=December 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201090444/http://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/g8789/women-in-hollywood-2014/|url-status=live}}</ref> She was next honored with and became the first female recipient of the [[Kirk Douglas|Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film]], presented to her by the [[Santa Barbara International Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sbiff.org/jessica-lange/|title=Jessica Lange to be honored with Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film|date=July 30, 2014|work=[[Santa Barbara International Film Festival]]|at=sbiff.org|publisher=SBIFF|access-date=September 16, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140916123809/http://sbiff.org/jessica-lange/|archive-date=September 16, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Later in the year, [[Marc Jacobs]] chose Lange to be the new face of Marc Jacobs Beauty. In addition, Lange was featured in the brand's summer and fall print ad campaign photographed by David Sims, and starred in a short campaign film directed by Jacobs.<ref name="vogue.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/beauty/2014/02/27/jessica-lange-new-face-of-marc-jacobs-beauty|title=Marc's New Woman|first=Lisa|last=Niven|date=February 27, 2014|access-date=March 1, 2014|archive-date=March 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304205106/http://www.vogue.co.uk/beauty/2014/02/27/jessica-lange-new-face-of-marc-jacobs-beauty|url-status=live}}</ref> Previously, Jacobs dressed and interviewed Lange for ''Love'' magazine's fifth-anniversary issue, and had her provide a spoken-word version of "[[Happy Days Are Here Again]]" as the soundtrack for his autumn/winter 2014 show.<ref name="vogue.co.uk"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beautyworldnews.com/articles/8038/20140226/marc-jacobs-2014-brand-announces-jessica-lange-as-new-face-see-first-campaign-photo-of--american-horror-story-actress.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140301193353/http://www.beautyworldnews.com/articles/8038/20140226/marc-jacobs-2014-brand-announces-jessica-lange-as-new-face-see-first-campaign-photo-of--american-horror-story-actress.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 1, 2014 |title=Marc Jacobs 2014: Brand Announces Jessica Lange as new face |date=February 26, 2014 |author=Editorial Team |work=Beauty World News |at=beautyworldnews.com |access-date=February 26, 2014 }}</ref> She next starred opposite [[Mark Wahlberg]] in the remake of the 1970s action-thriller, ''[[The Gambler (2014 film)|The Gambler]]'', receiving rave reviews for her work. She also led the fourth season of ''American Horror Story'', titled ''[[American Horror Story: Freak Show]]''. The series, once again, topped its and the network's highest ratings, breaking all ratings records for both.<ref>{{cite web |last=Beard |first=Lanford |url=https://deadline.com/2014/10/american-horror-story-freak-show-sets-new-fx-ratings-records-lands-5th-season-pick-up-850397/ |title=''American Horror Story: Freak Show'' Sets FX Ratings Records, Lands Season 5 Pickup |website=Deadline Hollywood |date=October 13, 2014 |access-date=February 8, 2015 |archive-date=February 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209012752/http://deadline.com/2014/10/american-horror-story-freak-show-sets-new-fx-ratings-records-lands-5th-season-pick-up-850397/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Though self-admittedly not a singer, Lange's covers of [[David Bowie]]'s "[[Life on Mars (song)|Life on Mars]]" and [[Lana Del Rey]]'s "[[Gods & Monsters (song)|Gods and Monsters]]" for the show were both hugely popular, receiving heavy circulation on YouTube and charting in the top 50 on the [[iTunes]] music charts.<ref>{{cite web |last=Beard |first=Lanford |url=http://www.itunescharts.net/us/artists/music/american-horror-story-cast/songs/gods-and-monsters-from-american-horror-story-feat-/ |title=American Horror Story Cast – 'Gods and Monsters (From "American Horror Story") [feat. Jessica Lange]' American iTunes Chart Performance; itunescharts.net |publisher=itunescharts.net |date=October 22, 2014 |access-date=February 8, 2015 |archive-date=February 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208230503/http://www.itunescharts.net/us/artists/music/american-horror-story-cast/songs/gods-and-monsters-from-american-horror-story-feat-/ |url-status=live }}</ref> For her work on the show, Lange received her seventh Primetime Emmy Award nomination, her fifteenth Golden Globe nomination, and her fourth Critics' Choice Television Award nomination. In 2015, Lange announced that she would not return for the series' fifth season.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://naples.floridaweekly.com/news/2015-04-02/Arts_%28and%29_Entertainment_News/Lange_bows_out_of_latest_American_Horror_Story.html|title=Celebrity Extra|last=Elavsky|first=Cindy|publisher=[[King Features]]|date=April 2, 2015|access-date=April 13, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006043202/http://naples.floridaweekly.com/news/2015-04-02/Arts_%28and%29_Entertainment_News/Lange_bows_out_of_latest_American_Horror_Story.html|archive-date=October 6, 2016}}</ref> She followed her final season on ''American Horror Story'' with a role opposite [[Shirley MacLaine]] and [[Demi Moore]] in the road-trip comedy, ''[[Wild Oats (film)|Wild Oats]]'', which wrapped production at the end of 2014. It premiered on [[Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime]] on August 22, 2016, before receiving a limited theatrical release on September 16, 2016.<ref name="variety2">{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/cannes-jessica-lange-sarah-jessica-parker-joining-shirley-maclaine-in-wild-oats-1201176477/ |title=Cannes: Jessica Lange, Sarah Jessica Parker Joining Shirley Maclaine in ''Wild Oats'' |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=May 9, 2014 |access-date=June 19, 2014 |first=Dave |last=McNary |archive-date=July 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715130757/http://variety.com/2014/film/news/cannes-jessica-lange-sarah-jessica-parker-joining-shirley-maclaine-in-wild-oats-1201176477/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== 2016–present: Return to Broadway ===
In 2016, Lange had a supporting role in [[Louis C.K.]]'s critically acclaimed and [[Peabody Award]]-winning web series ''[[Horace and Pete]]'', which debuted on C.K.'s website on January 30, 2016.<ref>{{cite news|title=About Horace and Pete|url=https://louisck.net/news/about-horace-and-pete|access-date=February 8, 2016|publisher=Louis C.K.|date=February 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205163047/https://louisck.net/news/about-horace-and-pete|archive-date=February 5, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> C.K. told [[Howard Stern]] that he had written the part for Lange and had asked her to be in the series at the [[Emmy Awards]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.siriusxm.com/blog/how-louis-c-k-convinced-steve-buscemi-edie-falco-and-jessica-lange-to-star-in-his-web-series|title= How Louis C.K. convinced Steve Buscemi, Edie Falco and Jessica Lange to star in his web series|website=[[Sirius XM]]|date= April 11, 2016|accessdate= June 19, 2024}}</ref> The series also starred [[Steve Buscemi]], [[Edie Falco]], [[Alan Alda]], and [[Laurie Metcalf]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.thewrap.com/louis-ck-horace-and-pete-cancel-one-season/|title= Louis CK Cancels 'Horace and Pete' After One Bizarre, Money-Losing Season|website= [[TheWrap]]|date= April 16, 2016|accessdate= June 19, 2024}}</ref> She next returned to Broadway alongside [[Michael Shannon]], [[Gabriel Byrne]] and [[John Gallagher Jr.]] in a revival of ''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]'' at the [[American Airlines Theatre]], produced by Ryan Murphy and the [[Roundabout Theatre Company]]. Theatre critic [[Ben Brantley]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote of her performance "You can feel Ms. Lange giving her all to each of her big set pieces, but they often feel too exquisitely self-contained, like coloratura arias in an opera. Ms. Lange is often acting beautifully, but she is also often palpably acting. And her final soliloquy is stretched self-indulgently thin."<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/theater/review-long-days-journey-into-night-is-a-tempest-in-a-bourbon-bottle.html|title= Review: 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' Is a Tempest in a Bourbon Bottle|website= [[The New York Times]]|date= April 28, 2016|accessdate= June 19, 2024|last1= Brantley|first1= Ben}}</ref> At the [[70th Tony Awards]] the show became the most Tony-nominated play of the season<ref>{{cite web|url= https://variety.com/2016/legit/news/2016-tony-awards-nominations-full-list-award-nominees-1201765161/|title= Tony Awards Nominations: Complete List|website= Variety|date= May 3, 2016|accessdate= June 19, 2024}}</ref> with Lange winning the [[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url= https://ew.com/article/2016/06/12/tony-awards-2016-jessica-lange/|title= Tony Awards 2016: Jessica Lange wins best actress in a play|magazine= [[Entertainment Weekly]]|accessdate= June 19, 2024|archive-date= June 19, 2024|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240619114436/https://ew.com/article/2016/06/12/tony-awards-2016-jessica-lange/|url-status= dead}}</ref> She also won the [[Drama Desk Award]] and [[Outer Critics Circle Award|Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Lead Actress]] with nominations for the [[Drama League Award]] for Distinguished Performance and a [[Time Out New York|Time Out New York Award]].<ref name="auto"/> She told filmmaker [[Michael Stever]] that [[Kim Stanley]] remained one of her truest inspirations.<ref name="TheaterPizzazz">{{cite news |url=http://www.theaterpizzazz.com/drama-desk-winners-film-interviews/ |title=TheatrePizzazz: Jessica Lange tops winners Drama Desk Awards – Film Interviews |work=TheatrePizzazz (webmagazine) |date=June 16, 2016 |access-date=December 4, 2019 |archive-date=December 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205045154/http://www.theaterpizzazz.com/drama-desk-winners-film-interviews/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

On November 12, 2016, Lange was honored at the [[Camerimage]] Film Festival, where she was awarded the [[Krzysztof Kieślowski]] Award for Acting.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://camerimage.pl/en/tegoroczna-laureatka-nagrody-im-krzysztofa-kieslowskiego-jest/|title=THE LAUREATE OF THIS YEAR'S KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI AWARD IS ...|date=November 3, 2016|publisher=[[Camerimage]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411202600/https://camerimage.pl/en/tegoroczna-laureatka-nagrody-im-krzysztofa-kieslowskiego-jest/|archive-date=April 11, 2019|url-status=dead|access-date=April 11, 2019}}</ref> Lange next starred in FX's anthology series, ''[[Feud (TV series)|Feud: Bette and Joan]]'' (2017), also serving as producer alongside [[Susan Sarandon]], who also co-starred, and executive producers Ryan Murphy and [[Brad Falchuk]]. The first season revolved around the infamous rivalry between Hollywood legends [[Bette Davis]] (Sarandon) and [[Joan Crawford]] (Lange), which came to a head during the making of the classic film, ''[[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film)|Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?]]'' (1963). [[Alfred Molina]], [[Stanley Tucci]], [[Judy Davis]] and [[Catherine Zeta-Jones]] co-starred. Production began in the fall of 2016 and it was released on March 5, 2017.<ref>{{cite news|title=How Feud recreates the world of 1963 Hollywood|url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/4/3/15141016/feud-fx-oscars-episode-production-design-interview|date=April 3, 2017|access-date=June 13, 2017|archive-date=May 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170522230911/https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/4/3/15141016/feud-fx-oscars-episode-production-design-interview|url-status=live}}</ref> The series garnered Lange her eighth [[Primetime Emmy Award]] nomination for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie|Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie]], her sixteenth [[Golden Globe Award]] nomination, her sixth [[Screen Actors Guild Award]] nomination, her fourth [[Critics' Choice Television Award]] nomination and her second [[TCA Awards|TCA Award]] nomination for [[TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama|Individual Achievement in Drama]]. Lange was also honored by the [[Trinity Repertory Company]]'s Pell Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts on May 23, 2017.

In 2018, Lange was honored with the [[Jason Robards]] Award for Excellence in Theater by the [[Roundabout Theater Company]]. In addition, she starred opposite [[Gwyneth Paltrow]] in the [[Netflix]] series ''[[The Politician (TV series)|The Politician]]'' and reprised her role as [[Constance Langdon]] in ''[[American Horror Story: Apocalypse]]'', for which she earned a tenth Emmy nomination{{snd}}her first in the [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series|Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series]] category{{snd}}in 2019.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jessica-lange-to-return-to-american-horror-story-for-apocalypse-installment|title=Jessica Lange to return to 'American Horror Story' for 'Apocalypse' installment|access-date=August 6, 2018|date=August 4, 2018|publisher=[[Fox News Channel]]|first=Mariah|last=Haas|archive-date=August 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180806083606/http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/03/jessica-lange-to-return-to-american-horror-story-for-apocalypse-installment.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Lange's first film of the 2020s was [[Neil Jordan]]'s ''[[Marlowe (2022 film)|Marlowe]]'', based on the novel ''The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel'' by [[John Banville]] and co-starring [[Liam Neeson]] and [[Diane Kruger]]. The film premiered at the [[San Sebastián International Film Festival]] on September 24, 2022. During a press conference at the festival, director Jordan noted, "I was desperate to work with Jessica Lange. The thought of [her] playing a retired screen goddess was amazing. Thankfully she agreed to play the part."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2022/film/festivals/marlowe-liam-neeson-san-sebastian-1235382588/|title=Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger Talk 'Marlowe' as Neil Jordan's Film World Premieres in San Sebastian|date=September 24, 2022|first=Liza|last=Foreman|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|access-date=October 24, 2022|archive-date=October 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024135743/https://variety.com/2022/film/festivals/marlowe-liam-neeson-san-sebastian-1235382588/amp/|url-status=live}}</ref> The film was released in theaters on December 2, 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2022/08/liam-neeson-neil-jordan-marlowe-open-road-deal-william-monahan-1235101954/|title=Open Road Acquires NA Rights To Liam Neeson Noir Crime Thriller ''Marlowe''; December 2 Theatrical Release Set For Neil Jordan-Helmed Pic|date=August 29, 2022|first=Mike Jr.|last=Fleming|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|access-date=August 29, 2022|archive-date=September 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922134404/https://deadline.com/2022/08/liam-neeson-neil-jordan-marlowe-open-road-deal-william-monahan-1235101954/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/neil-jordans-marlowe-to-close-san-sebastian-2022/5174012.article|title=Neil Jordan's 'Marlowe' to close San Sebastian 2022|date=September 1, 2022|first=Ellie|last=Calnan|website=[[Screen International]]|access-date=September 1, 2022|archive-date=September 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901142952/https://www.screendaily.com/news/neil-jordans-marlowe-to-close-san-sebastian-2022/5174012.article|url-status=live}}</ref> On June 6, 2023, ''Jessica Lange: An Adventurer's Heart'', a biography by film scholar, historian, and journalist Anthony Uzarowski, was released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813197258/jessica-lange/ |title=Jessica Lange: An Adventurer's Heart |date=September 2022 |website=[[University Press of Kentucky]] |access-date=September 9, 2022 |archive-date=September 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220909223107/https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813197258/jessica-lange/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 

Lange returned to Broadway to originate the lead role in a [[Second Stage Theater]] presentation of [[Paula Vogel]]'s new play, ''[[Mother Play]]'', which premiered at the [[Hayes Theater]] in April 2024.<ref name="Mother Play" /> The production was directed by [[Tina Landau]] and co-starred [[Jim Parsons]] and [[Celia Keenan-Bolger]].<ref name="Mother Play" /> The story takes place in 1962 and centers on Phyllis (Lange), as she oversees her son (Parsons) and daughter's (Keenan-Bolger) relocation to a new apartment, prompting all three to face and reflect on their shared and individual lives and relationships with one another.<ref name="Mother Play" /> Alexis Soloski of ''[[The New York Times]]'' described the role as a "showcase for Lange" adding, "Another actress as Phyllis might have done more to communicate the small ravages of time, but Lange concentrates instead on her ageless ferocity and charm."<ref>{{cite web |last=Soloski |first=Alexis |date=2024-04-25 |title=Review: In 'Mother Play,' Paula Vogel Unboxes a Family Story |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/theater/mother-play-review-jessica-lange-paula-vogel.html |url-access=subscription |accessdate=June 19, 2024 |website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Lange received a [[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play]] nomination for the role.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cox |first=Gordon |date=2024-05-14 |title=Why Tony Nominee Jessica Lange Feels 'Wild and Liberated' in Broadway's 'Mother Play' |url=https://variety.com/2024/legit/podcasts/jessica-lange-mother-play-broadway-tony-nomination-1236003240/ |access-date=2024-05-15 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> 

Also in 2024, she starred in ''[[The Great Lillian Hall]]'', a film directed by [[Michael Cristofer]], written by Elisabeth Seldes Annacone, and co-starring [[Kathy Bates]], [[Pierce Brosnon]], and [[Lily Rabe]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Loggins |first=Emma |date=June 11, 2023 |title=Jessica Lange's 'Places, Please' Continues Atlanta Filming |url=https://www.fanbolt.com/142018/jessica-langes-places-please-continues-atlanta-filming/ |access-date=September 17, 2023 |website=Fanbolt}}</ref> The film, which premiered on [[HBO]] on May 31, 2024,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Petski |first=Denise |date=2024-05-14 |title=HBO To Premiere Jessica Lange Movie 'The Great Lillian Hall' Ahead Of Emmy Cutoff |url=https://deadline.com/2024/05/hbo-jessica-lange-the-great-lillian-hall-movie-emmy-cutoff-1235916091/ |access-date=2024-05-15 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref> centers on Lillian Hall (Lange), a renowned Broadway actress who, while rehearsing for her next Broadway production, "is forced to reckon with the past and the price she has paid for the choices she made in her life and her art."<ref name="Streep Places">{{cite web |last=Flemming, Jr. |first=Mike |date=February 25, 2021 |title=Meryl Streep, Michael Cristofer Team For Broadway Homage Film 'Places, Please;' As Pic Hits EFM, They Describe Their Hopes For Post-Pandemic Stage Biz |url=https://deadline.com/2021/02/meryl-streep-michael-cristofer-places-please-movie-broadway-homage-how-to-save-theater-pandemic-1234700906/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225202211/https://deadline.com/2021/02/meryl-streep-michael-cristofer-places-please-movie-broadway-homage-how-to-save-theater-pandemic-1234700906/ |archive-date=February 25, 2021 |access-date=September 17, 2023 |website=Deadline}}</ref> The film was initially set to star [[Meryl Streep]], who backed out of the project for unspecified reasons.<ref name="Streep Places" /> The project is loosely based on the acclaimed stage actress [[Marian Seldes]] who battled dementia in her later years.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://playbill.com/article/video-see-jessica-lange-play-a-character-based-on-marian-seldes-in-the-great-lillian-hall-trailer|title= See Jessica Lange Play a Broadway Star in The Great Lillian Hall|website= Playbill|accessdate= June 19, 2024}}</ref> Lange earned her sixth [[Critics' Choice Television Award]] nomination.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2024/12/critics-choice-awards-2024-tv-nominations-shogun-1236195173/ |title=''Shōgun'' Leads with Six Critics Choice Awards TV Nominations – Full List |last=Pedersen |first=Erik |work=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |date=December 5, 2024 |access-date=December 6, 2024}}</ref>
 
She also acted in the [[FX on Hulu]] miniseries ''[[Feud: Capote vs. The Swans]]'' (2024) as [[Truman Capote]]'s deceased mother Lillie Mae Faulk. The series [[showrunner]] Jon Rabin Baitz said that casting her was a direct homage to her role as the Angel of Death in the [[Bob Fosse]] film ''[[All That Jazz (film)|All That Jazz]]'' (1979).<ref>{{cite magazine|url= https://ew.com/jessica-lange-feud-capote-vs-the-swans-role-explained-8553647|title= How Jessica Lange's Feud: Capote Vs. the Swans role calls back to one of her past films|magazine= [[Entertainment Weekly]]|accessdate= June 19, 2024}}</ref> 

Lange will star in director [[Jonathan Kent (director)|Jonathan Kent]]'s film adaptation of [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s ''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]'', edited for the screen by [[David Lindsay-Abaire]] and co-starring [[Ed Harris]], [[Ben Foster (actor)|Ben Foster]], and [[Colin Morgan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/movies/long-days-journey-into-night-eugene-oneill-jessica-lange-ed-harris.html|title=Filming Eugene O'Neill When the Elements (and Investors) Don't Cooperate|date=January 17, 2023|first=Roslyn|last=Sulcas|website=The New York Times|access-date=September 17, 2023|archive-date=January 17, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117201152/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/movies/long-days-journey-into-night-eugene-oneill-jessica-lange-ed-harris.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://seniorplanet.org/senior-planet-talks-to-ed-harris/|title=Senior Planet talks to….Ed Harris|date=August 25, 2022|first=Gill|last=Pringle|website=senior planet.org|access-date=September 1, 2022|archive-date=September 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901232554/https://seniorplanet.org/senior-planet-talks-to-ed-harris/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/2022/09/25/production-on-film-in-wicklow-starring-jessica-lange-halted-due-to-funding-woes/|title=Production on film in Wicklow starring Jessica Lange halted due to funding woes|date=September 25, 2022|first=Peter|last=Murtagh|website=Irish Times.com|access-date=October 24, 2022|archive-date=October 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024135739/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/2022/09/25/production-on-film-in-wicklow-starring-jessica-lange-halted-due-to-funding-woes/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.sundayworld.com/showbiz/movies/wicklow-movie-boom-continues-as-jessica-lange-and-ed-harris-join-gabriel-byrne-on-latest-shoot/1979607971.html|title=MOVIE-MAKING CAPITAL: Wicklow movie boom continues as Jessica Lange and Ed Harris join Gabriel Byrne on latest shoot|date=October 23, 2022|first=Eugene|last=Masterson|website=SundayWorld.com|access-date=October 24, 2022|archive-date=October 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023134614/https://m.sundayworld.com/showbiz/movies/wicklow-movie-boom-continues-as-jessica-lange-and-ed-harris-join-gabriel-byrne-on-latest-shoot/1979607971.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2022/10/23/production-resumes-on-wicklow-film-starring-jessica-lange-and-ed-harris-after-financial-difficulties-resolved/|title=Production resumes on Wicklow film starring Jessica Lange and Ed Harris after financial difficulties resolved|date=October 23, 2022|first=Peter|last=Murtagh|website=Irish Times.com|access-date=October 24, 2022|archive-date=October 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024005943/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2022/10/23/production-resumes-on-wicklow-film-starring-jessica-lange-and-ed-harris-after-financial-difficulties-resolved/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="FT Derive Interview" /> In an interview published on November 2, 2022, Lange spoke of her "bouts with depression" and "overwhelming sense of loneliness" and referred to the aforementioned project, noting, "I could be feeling that even more acutely right now because I'm starting to play [drug-addicted matriarch] Mary Tyrone again."<ref name="FT Derive Interview" /> Kent previously directed the 2016 Broadway stage production of O'Neill's play, for which Lange garnered a [[Tony Award]], among other accolades. Additionally, Kenwright produced the 2000 London stage production of O'Neill's play, which earned Lange an [[Olivier Award]] nomination, and also produced London stage productions of [[Tennessee Williams]]' ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' and ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'', both starring Lange.

Additionally, Lange has three other filmed projects in development: a [[Marlene Dietrich]] biopic produced by [[Ryan Murphy (producer)|Ryan Murphy]] for [[Netflix]] centered on Dietrich's late-career period in [[Las Vegas]], [[Gia Coppola]]'s adaptation of Jean Nathan's memoir ''The Search for Dare Wright: The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll'' co-starring [[Naomi Watts]] which chronicles the life of [[Dare Wright]] and her tempestuous relationship with her mother Edith Stevenson Wright,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/naomi-watts-jessica-lange-secret-life-of-the-lonely-doll-1201733875/|title=Naomi Watts, Jessica Lange to Star in 'Secret Life of the Lonely Doll'|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|first=Dave|last=McNary|date=March 18, 2016|access-date=August 8, 2018|archive-date=August 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828034251/https://variety.com/2016/film/news/naomi-watts-jessica-lange-secret-life-of-the-lonely-doll-1201733875/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/ryan-murphy-adds-netflix-slate-a-chorus-line-mini-andy-warhol-docuseries-1236549|title=Ryan Murphy Adds to Netflix Slate With 'A Chorus Line' Mini, Andy Warhol Docuseries|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=September 3, 2019|access-date=September 4, 2019|archive-date=January 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200105132415/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/ryan-murphy-adds-netflix-slate-a-chorus-line-mini-andy-warhol-docuseries-1236549|url-status=live}}</ref> and a film adaptation of ''[[The Year of Magical Thinking]]'' to be filmed in 2025 where she would portray [[Joan Didion]] alongside [[Gary Oldman]].<ref>{{cite web |date=May 24, 2024 |title=Jessica Lange to star in film adaptation of the Year in Magical Thinking |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/article/62709/1/jessica-lange-to-star-in-film-adaptation-of-the-year-of-magical-thinking?amp=1 |website=Dazed Digital}}</ref> Lange will reprise her role in the West End production of [[Paula Vogel]]'s play, ''[[Mother Play]]'' in 2026. Lange has also been confirmed to return for the 13th Season of American Horror Story.

==Style and reception==
Lange is often included in the milieu of America's most respected actresses.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jessica Lange |url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/jessica-lange |website=Emmys |access-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324102338/https://www.emmys.com/bios/jessica-lange |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Szanton |first1=Andrew |title=Finding Her Way Through a Forest: a Profile of Jessica Lange |url=https://medium.com/@andrewszanton/finding-her-way-through-a-forest-a-profile-of-jessica-lange-22c95b88f01b |website=Medium |date=August 28, 2021 |access-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324102338/https://medium.com/@andrewszanton/finding-her-way-through-a-forest-a-profile-of-jessica-lange-22c95b88f01b |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Jacobs |first1=Jay S. |title=Jessica Lange: Don't Go Changing |url=http://www.popentertainment.com/lange.htm |website=Pop Entertainment |date=March 17, 2006 |access-date=January 5, 2023 |archive-date=September 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929042726/http://popentertainment.com/lange.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Jessica Lange |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/108398%7C0/Jessica-Lange/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-date=February 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220204095414/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/108398%7C0/Jessica-Lange/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Jessica Lange |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/1008767-jessica_lange |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-date=April 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406113743/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/1008767-jessica_lange |url-status=live }}</ref>
In a career spanning nearly five decades, Lange has come to be associated with playing intelligent women who often have a troubled internal life.<ref name="Jessica Lange">{{cite web |last1=Cumming |first1=Alan |title=Jessica Lange |url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/jessica-lange |website=Interview Magazine |date=October 8, 2013 |access-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-date=March 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315151101/https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/jessica-lange |url-status=live }}</ref> She has been credited for her ability to deliver emotional intensity without resorting to excessive melodrama. Critics have frequently pointed out her tendency to play women on the edge of a nervous breakdown, a notion that Lange herself has also acknowledged.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mazzur |first1=Matt |title=A Langeducation: 10 Essential Jessica Lange Scenes |url=https://www.popmatters.com/10-essential-jessica-lange-scenes |website=Pop Matters |date=January 29, 2014 |access-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324102336/https://www.popmatters.com/10-essential-jessica-lange-scenes |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Parker |first1=Ian |title=Mum is definitely not the word |url=https://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/mum-is-definitely-not-the-word-26217570.html |website=Independent.ie |date=February 8, 2004 |access-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324102336/https://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/mum-is-definitely-not-the-word-26217570.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Yang |first1=Tatin |title=Jessica Lange's descent into madness |url=https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/86737/jessica-langes-descent-into-madness/ |website=Inquirer |date=January 25, 2013 |access-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324102339/https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/86737/jessica-langes-descent-into-madness/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Nicholas Bell of ''Ioncinema'' writes that her Oscar-winning role of Carly in ''[[Blue Sky (1994 film)|Blue Sky]]'' is reminiscent of her signature performances, as "Lange excels [here] at the small tics hinting at the madness always lurking below the surface".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bell |first1=Nicholas |title=Blue Sky, Blu-ray Review |url=https://www.ioncinema.com/news/disc-reviews/blue-sky-blu-ray-review |website=Ioncinema |date=May 12, 2015 |access-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-date=August 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827151850/https://www.ioncinema.com/news/disc-reviews/blue-sky-blu-ray-review |url-status=live }}</ref>

Referring to her acting style, Lange has said that she performs on "pure emotion" rather than relying on a specific technique.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jessica Lange Walker Dialogue with Molly Haskell | date=April 28, 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8yZJC7gsW4&t=2792s |via=YouTube |publisher=Walker Art Center |access-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324102335/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8yZJC7gsW4&t=2792s |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Poland |first1=David |title=DP/30 Emmy Watch: Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Freak Show |date=June 3, 2015 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWl-M3Wc2UA |via=YouTube |publisher=DP/30: The Oral History Of Hollywood |access-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324102340/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWl-M3Wc2UA |url-status=live }}</ref> Director [[Glenn Jordan]], who has directed her in ''[[O Pioneers! (film)|O Pioneers!]]'', noted that "Jessica reminds me of what someone once said of [[Jack Lemmon]]. Whatever emotion or whatever small nuance you want, she is like a supermarket. Her shelves are stocked full and it's all accessible to her".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Susan |first1=King |title=Steeled Magnolia: It seems as if Jessica Lange is a supermarket shelf of emotions. And that doesn't even count what she manages to do on the screen. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-29-tv-62278-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |date=October 29, 1995 |access-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324102336/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-29-tv-62278-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This sentiment was echoed by actress [[Sarah Paulson]] who, after working with Lange on the 2005 stage production of ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' as well as five seasons of ''[[American Horror Story]]'', described the actress as being "like a cat on a wire" and added that "she is very instinctual, she doesn't come up with an entire plan on how to play a scene".<ref>{{cite web |title=American Horror Story: What It's Like to Work with Jessica | date=March 18, 2015 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe82LFlfKwQ&ab_channel=TelevisionAcademy |via=YouTube |publisher=Television Academy |access-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324102338/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe82LFlfKwQ&ab_channel=TelevisionAcademy |url-status=live }}</ref> As a result, Lange's performance style has positively been referred to as unpredictable, since she acts out the trajectory of her characters' emotional journey with unexpected turns.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ramon |first1=Alex |title=Blue Sky: the 1990s nuclear drama that won Jessica Lange her second Oscar |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/blue-sky-jessica-lange-oscar |website=British Film Institute |date=January 19, 2021 |access-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324102338/https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/blue-sky-jessica-lange-oscar |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Jessica Lange"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pius |first1=Robert |last2=Holland |first2=Misty |last3=Beachum |first3=Chris |title=Jessica Lange movies: 15 greatest films ranked from worst to best |url=https://www.goldderby.com/gallery/jessica-lange-movies-15-greatest-films-ranked-from-worst-to-best/jessica-lange-movies-ranked-all-that-jazz/ |website=Gold Derby |date=April 18, 2022 |access-date=January 5, 2023 |archive-date=February 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209185656/https://www.goldderby.com/gallery/jessica-lange-movies-15-greatest-films-ranked-from-worst-to-best/jessica-lange-movies-ranked-all-that-jazz/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Mokoena |first1=Tshepo |title=Jessica Lange: five best moments |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/jan/23/jessica-lange-five-best-moments-the-gambler-american-horror-story |website=The Guardian |date=January 23, 2015 |access-date=January 5, 2023 |archive-date=February 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209185655/https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/jan/23/jessica-lange-five-best-moments-the-gambler-american-horror-story |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Personal life==
=== Marriage and relationships ===
Lange was married to photographer Francisco "Paco" Grande from 1970 to 1982.<ref>{{cite news |date=August 1, 1982 |title=Romance go round |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-romance-go-round/171317593/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://people.com/archive/jessica-lange-vol-18-no-26/ |title=Jessica Lange |work=People |date=December 27, 1982 |access-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308050323/https://people.com/archive/jessica-lange-vol-18-no-26/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Though they separated not long after moving to Europe during the mid-1970s, they did not divorce until the early 1980s, after which Lange paid him an undisclosed sum in [[alimony]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2008/edition_02-17-2008/In_Step_With...Jessica_Lange|title=In Step With ... Jessica Lange|publisher=[[Parade (magazine)|Parade]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525070927/http://parade.com/articles/editions/2008/edition_02-17-2008/In_Step_With...Jessica_Lange|archive-date=May 25, 2008|access-date=May 12, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="tcm"/> According to biographer Anthony Uzarowski, the former couple "remain close friends."<ref>{{harvnb|Uzarowski|2023|p=46}}</ref>

From 1976 to 1982, she was partnered with renowned [[Russians|Russian]] ballet dancer [[Mikhail Baryshnikov]], with whom she had her first child, [[Shura Baryshnikov|Aleksandra Lange "Shura" Baryshnikov]] (born 1981).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/20/movies/jessica-lange-film-star-whose-future-is-here.html|title=Jessica Lange, film star whose future is here|last=Harmetz|first=Aljean|date=December 20, 1982|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=January 29, 2016|archive-date=February 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206071214/http://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/20/movies/jessica-lange-film-star-whose-future-is-here.html|url-status=live}}</ref> During that time, she was also sporadically linked with [[Bob Fosse]], with whom she remained friends until his death.<ref name="tcm"/>

In 1982, she met and entered a relationship with playwright [[Sam Shepard]]. They had two children: daughter Hannah Jane Shepard (born 1986) and son Samuel Walker Shepard (born 1987). They lived together in Virginia, New Mexico, Minnesota, and eventually New York City, before separating in 2009.<ref>Multiple sources:
*{{cite web |last=Johnson |first=Zach |url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/rep-jessica-lange-and-sam-shepard-have-separated-20111912 |title=Rep: Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard Have Separated |work=Us Weekly |date=December 19, 2011 |access-date=August 9, 2013 |archive-date=March 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320235223/http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/rep-jessica-lange-and-sam-shepard-have-separated-20111912 |url-status=live }}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.sam-shepard.com/aboutsam.html |title=About Sam – The Sam Shepard Web Site |publisher=Sam-shepard.com |access-date=August 9, 2013 |archive-date=June 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623041603/http://www.sam-shepard.com/aboutsam.html |url-status=live }}
*{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2011/12/jessica-lange-sam-shepard-split-american-horror-story.html|title=Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard have called it quits after 30 years|work=Los Angeles Times|date=December 20, 2011|access-date=August 9, 2013|archive-date=January 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140119083128/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2011/12/jessica-lange-sam-shepard-split-american-horror-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Lange often returns to [[Duluth, Minnesota]], and has said of the city, "It's the one place that has remained constant in my life{{nbs}}... After living all over [the world] and traveling everywhere I've wanted to go, I keep coming back here."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jessica-lange-behind-the-lens/|title=Jessica Lange behind the lens|work=CBS This Morning|date=January 11, 2020|access-date=January 14, 2020|archive-date=January 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113151541/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jessica-lange-behind-the-lens/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Activism and beliefs===
Lange is a [[List of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors|Goodwill Ambassador]] for the [[United Nations Children's Fund]] (UNICEF), specializing in the [[HIV/AIDS]] epidemic in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] and in spreading awareness of the disease in Russia.<ref name="unicef1"/><ref name="unicef2"/> Lange fostered a Romanian child with disabilities during the early 1990s.<ref name="independent.co.uk"/>

Though she does not adhere to a formal religion, she periodically practices [[Buddhism]], describing it as "a discipline that makes sense more than anything because it's like a science".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Seitz |first=Matt Zoller |date=2024-02-28 |title=Made for Jessica Lange |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/jessica-lange-in-conversation.html |access-date=2025-08-08 |website=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Fear |first=David |date=2019-10-03 |title=The Last Word: Jessica Lange on Buddhism, Photography and 'American Horror Story' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/last-word-jessica-lange-interview-893733/ |access-date=2025-08-08 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="guardian.co.uk">{{cite news |author=Chrissy Iley |date=January 29, 2007 |title=Interview: Chrissy Iley meets Jessica Lange |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2007/jan/28/features.magazine57 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140929075420/http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2007/jan/28/features.magazine57 |archive-date=September 29, 2014 |access-date=August 7, 2013 |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London}}</ref> She is also a [[Vegetarianism|vegetarian]].<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/2Txeh7pl1JU Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20170316142539/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Txeh7pl1JU Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Citation|last=The Late Show with Stephen Colbert|title=Jessica Lange Is Feuding With Kellyanne Conway (In Her Head)|date=March 16, 2017|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Txeh7pl1JU&t=7m35s|access-date=March 16, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In September 2013, Lange joined the opposition to Minnesota's wolf hunt and wrote a letter to Governor [[Mark Dayton]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kimball |first=Joe |date=2013-09-26 |title=Actress Jessica Lange to Gov. Dayton: Suspend the wolf hunt |url=https://www.minnpost.com/political-agenda/2013/09/actress-jessica-lange-gov-dayton-suspend-wolf-hunt/ |access-date=2025-09-07 |website=[[MinnPost]]}}</ref>

=== Health issues === 
Lange has also revealed that she suffers from severe bouts of depression,<ref name="Los Angeles Times"/><ref name="talentdevelop.com">{{cite web |url=http://talentdevelop.com/articles/Page31.html |title=Depression and Creativity |publisher=Talentdevelop.com |access-date=August 9, 2013 |archive-date=July 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728194557/http://talentdevelop.com/articles/Page31.html |url-status=live }}</ref> once admitting, "I have never been a believer in psychoanalysis or therapy or anything like that. I've never done that."<ref name="talentdevelop.com"/> She confessed, "Though my dark side is dormant right now, it continues to play a big role in whatever capacity I have to be creative. That's the well I'm able to tap into, where all the anguish, rage and sadness are stored."<ref name="Los Angeles Times"/> In 2022, Lange shed more light on her dark moods, admitting, "I've suffered bouts of depression my whole life. They ebb and flow. I have a hard time separating the sadness, [and] the depression, from my overwhelming sense of loneliness."<ref name="FT Derive Interview">{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/093fbfa3-59ff-4ba5-8671-542b0b8517f4|title=Jessica Lange's portraits of a lonely city|last=House|first=Christian|date=November 2, 2022|work=[[Financial Times]]|access-date=November 2, 2022|archive-date=November 2, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102170921/https://www.ft.com/content/093fbfa3-59ff-4ba5-8671-542b0b8517f4|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Photography===
[[File:Jessica Lange Mexico.tif|thumb|''Mexico (1992–2008)'' by Jessica Lange]]
{{Further|Jessica Lange exhibitions}}
In 2008, Lange published a collection of her [[black-and-white]] photographs, ''[[50 Photographs]]'' ([[powerHouse Books]]), with an introduction by [[Patti Smith]].<ref name=TheObserver>{{cite web |url=https://observer.com/2008/08/jessica-lange-and-patti-smith-team-up-on-photo-book/ |title=Jessica Lange and Patti Smith Team Up |date=July 15, 2009 |work=The Observer |access-date=October 7, 2020 |archive-date=November 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128124257/https://observer.com/2008/08/jessica-lange-and-patti-smith-team-up-on-photo-book/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2009, an exhibition of her work, along with a series of her films, was presented at the [[George Eastman House]], the oldest international museum of photography and film, which honors distinguished contributions to film with the [[George Eastman Award]]. Lange received the first George Eastman Honors Award, an award given to an artist whose life work embodies the traditions and values championed by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.<ref name=eastmanhouse>{{cite web |url=https://www.eastman.org/jessica-lange-eastman-house-july-25s |title=Jessica Lange at Eastman House July 25 |work=[[George Eastman House]] |date=July 15, 2009 |at=eastman.org |publisher=GEH |location=Rochester, New York |access-date=October 7, 2020 }}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In 2010, she published a second collection of photographs, ''[[In Mexico]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.editorialrm.com/en/producto/jessica-lange-in-mexico/ |title=In Mexico. Jessica Lange |publisher=Editorial RM |date=August 16, 2010 |access-date=October 7, 2020 |archive-date=October 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009124033/https://www.editorialrm.com/en/producto/jessica-lange-in-mexico/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.howardgreenberg.com/publications/in-mexico |title=In Mexico. Jessica Lange |publisher=Howard Greenberg |date=August 16, 2010 |access-date=October 7, 2020 |archive-date=October 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012175016/http://www.howardgreenberg.com/publications/in-mexico |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rosegallery.net/jessicalange |title=In Mexico. Jessica Lange |publisher=Rose Gallery |date=August 16, 2010 |access-date=October 7, 2020 |archive-date=October 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010032811/http://www.rosegallery.net/jessicalange |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=399599&CategoryId=13003 |title=Jessica Lange Shows Mexican Daily Life in Photographs |publisher=Latin American Herald Tribune |access-date=October 7, 2020 |archive-date=October 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011010152/http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=399599&CategoryId=13003 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2013, she released a children's book of photography, ''[[It's About a Little Bird]]''. In 2014, she exhibited at Moscow's [[Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow|Multimedia Art Museum]].<ref name=mam>{{cite web|url=http://www.mamm-mdf.ru/exhibitions/unseen/|title=Exhibitions – 2014 – ''Jessica Lange: Unseen''|publisher=[[Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow]]|at=mamm-mdf.ru|location=Moscow, Russia|date=April 20, 2014|access-date=April 20, 2014|archive-date=March 16, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316161457/http://mamm-mdf.ru/exhibitions/unseen|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019, she published her fourth book of photography, ''Highway 61'', composed of photographs of [[U.S. Route 61]].<ref name="nytimes_2019-09-25"/>

Lange's fifth book of photography ''Dérive'' was published by [[powerHouse Books]] and distributed by [[Simon & Schuster]] in 2023.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lange |first1=Jessica |title=Dérive {{!}} Book by Jessica Lange |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Derive/Jessica-Lange/9781648230226 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240714172002/https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Derive/Jessica-Lange/9781648230226 |archive-date=July 14, 2024 |access-date=September 24, 2025 |website=Simon & Schuster |date=September 12, 2023 |publisher=powerHouse Books |isbn=978-1-64823-022-6 }}</ref>

==Acting credits and accolades==
{{Main| List of Jessica Lange performances|List of awards and nominations received by Jessica Lange}}

She has earned two [[Academy Award]]s, three [[Primetime Emmy Awards|Emmys Awards]], and a [[Tony Award]].<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/forget-the-egot-only-22-actors-have-accomplished-this-more-impressive-feat/2017/02/21/bdd85036-d782-11e6-9f9f-5cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html|title= Only 22 people had ever accomplished this feat|newspaper= [[The Washington Post]]|accessdate= May 11, 2023|archive-date= March 1, 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170301074223/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/forget-the-egot-only-22-actors-have-accomplished-this-more-impressive-feat/2017/02/21/bdd85036-d782-11e6-9f9f-5cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html|url-status= live}}</ref> She has also earned five [[Golden Globe Awards]]  among sixteen nominations. Along with [[Helen Mirren]], Lange holds the record for most nominations for the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film|Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film]].

Lange has been recognized by the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] (AMPAS) for the following films:
*[[55th Academy Awards]], [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress in a Leading Role]], nomination, for ''[[Frances (film)|Frances]]'' (1982) 
*[[55th Academy Awards]], [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Actress in a Supporting Role]], '''win''', for ''[[Tootsie]]'' (1982)
*[[57th Academy Awards]], Best Actress in a Leading Role, nomination, for ''[[Country (film)|Country]]'' (1984)
*[[58th Academy Awards]], Best Actress in a Leading Role, nomination, for ''[[Sweet Dreams (1985 film)|Sweet Dreams]]'' (1985)
*[[62nd Academy Awards]], Best Actress in a Leading Role, nomination, for ''[[Music Box (film)|Music Box]]'' (1989)
*[[67th Academy Awards]], Best Actress in a Leading Role, '''win''', for ''[[Blue Sky (1994 film)|Blue Sky]]'' (1994)

==See also==
{{Portal|Film|Television|Theatre}}
* [[Jessica Lange bibliography]]
* [[List of actors with Academy Award nominations]]
* [[List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories]]
* [[List of actors with two or more Academy Award nominations in acting categories]]
* [[List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame]]
* [[List of actors with Hollywood Walk of Fame motion picture stars]]

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/jessica-lange-p40447|title=Jessica Lange – Overview – Biography/Filmography – Awards|work=[[AllMovie]]|at=allmovie.com|publisher=[[AllRovi]]|access-date = July 5, 2012}}
* {{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/1008767-jessica_lange/|title=Jessica Lange – Biography – Highest Rated Movies – Filmography|work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Flixster]]|access-date=July 5, 2012}}
* {{cite book|last=Uzarowski |first=Anthony |year=2023 |title=Jessica Lange: An Adventurer's Heart |publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]] |location=Lexington, Kentucky  |isbn=978-0-8131-9725-8}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book|ref=none|last=Jeffries|first=J. T.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rVn2PAAACAAJ|title=Jessica Lange: A Biography|location=New York City|publisher=St. Martin's Press |page=158|isbn=978-0-312-44200-2|year=1986}}
* {{cite book|ref=none|last=Shewey |first=Don|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kihaAAAAMAAJ|title=Sam Shepard|publisher=Da Capo Press |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |page=269|isbn=978-0-306-80770-1|year=1997}}

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