1982 - TOOTSIE

(Comedy - PG)

Jessica Lange won the SUPPORTING ACTRESS award for playing the soap opera co-star who Hoffman, dressed as a woman, falls in love with.

1994 - BLUE SKY

(Drama - PG/13)

Jessica Lange won the BEST ACTRESS award
as the free spirted wife of Tommy Lee Jones. 

Jessica Lange was born and raised in Minnesota.  She studied theater in Paris, then moved to New York where she worked as a model.   Lange's first role was as the limp femme of KING KONG, a 1976 remake movie, which unfuriated critics and pidgeon-holed her as a fluff ball.  She was able to send her career in a better direction, three years later when she was cast in the small but splashy role of flirtatious Death in Bob Fosse's autobiographical dance movie, ALL THAT JAZZ in 1979. 

In 1981, Jessica Lang played a waitress married to a roadside cafe operator, whose affair with a seedy drifter ends in murder, in  the remake of THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, with Jack Nicholson.  Jessica Lange played actress Frances Farmer, in the 1982 movie, FRANCES, whose Hollywood career took a dive, along with her entire life, when she was blacklisted in the 50's.  Lange was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance.  Lange also met playright, director and actor Sam Shepherd on this shoot, who became her life partner. 

In the same year, Lange was also nominated for a supporting Oscar for her role as an actress and confident, as well as unwitting love interest, in Sydney Pollack's cross-dressing comedy, TOOTSIE, starring Dustin Hoffman.  Lange won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. 

Jessica Lange played again with Sam Shepherd in the 1984 movie, COUNTRY, in which they played struggling farmers.  She was nominated for an Oscar for her performance.  The following year, Lange was again nominated for her portrayal of country western singer, Patsy Cline, in SWEET DREAMS. 

In 1989, she played the lawyer daughter of a suspected Nazi war criminal in THE MUSIC BOX, who successfully defends her father, charged with heinous war crimes, only to strumble across incriminating evidence after the trial, in an old music box.  Jessica Lange was nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal. 

Jessica Lange won her second Oscar for her role as the sexy, over ripe, mentally unbalanced wife of a nuclear science engineer in the 1950's, played by Tommy Lee Jones, in BLUE SKY. 

Lange played the steadfast wife of Liam Neeson in the 1995 movie, ROB ROY.  In 2005, she played an annoyed, lesbian psychologist in Jim Jarmusch's BROKEN FLOWERS, with Bill Murray as the schlumpf who goes in search of his ex-girlfriends, to find out where love went wrong.

Jessica Lange also received Best Actress nominations for:

FRANCES (82)
COUNTRY (84)
SWEET DREAMS (85)
MUSIC BOX (89)

Her other films include:

KING KONG
ALL THAT JAZZ
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
CRIMES OF THE HEART
FAR NORTH
MEN DON'T LEAVE
O'PIONEERS
CAPE FEAR
LOSING ISAIAH
NIGHT AND THE CITY
ROB ROY
LOSING ISAIAH
A THOUSAND ACRES
HUSH
COUSIN BETTE
TITUS
PROZAC NATION
MASKED and ANONYMOUS
THE BIG FISH
BOKEN FLOWERS
DON'T COME KNOCKIN'
NEVERWAS
BONNEVILLE

Jessica Lange's television credits include:

HUSH
PROZAC NATION
THE BEST LITTLE GIRL IN THE WORLD
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
O' PIONEERS!
A CENTURY OF WOMEN (mini-series)
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

"STORIES FROM MY CHILDHOOD" (series)

Jessica Lange in TOOTSIE

Jessica Lange in CAPE FEAR (1991)

Jessica Lange in BIG FISH (2003)

Jessica Lange in ALL THAT JAZZ

Jessica Lange in the re-make of THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE

Jessica Lange, and her co-star, in ROB ROY (1995)

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