Guess Who's 60 Now?
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Daily Beast - Found Jun. 27, 2009 Bonnie Raitt and Sissy Spacek and Anna Wintour and Jessica Lange will soon follow. |
Taormina expansion gives festgoers a chance to get a little closer ...
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Hollywood Reporter - Found Jun. 24, 2009 Catherine Deneuve, Jessica Lange, Dominique Sanda, Fanny Ardant, Amy Mullins and fashion designer Emanuele Ungaro enjoyed the seclusion of the... |
'Long Night' at Taormina fest
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Hollywood Reporter - Found Jun. 21, 2009 ... for lifetime achievement went to a series of grand dames of world cinema: Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant, Jessica Lange and Dominique Sanda. |
Jessica Lange: Having a crazy good time
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Los Angeles Times - Found Jun. 7, 2009 Jessica Lange, who has won two Oscars and lives in New York City, visited Los Angeles last month to discuss the HBO movie ' Grey Gardens.' In it, she ... |
Blake Lively 'like Jessica Lange'
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Leicester Mercury - Found Jun. 22, 2009 Blake Lively has been compared to a young Jessica Lange by writer and director Rebecca Miller. |
Blake Lively 'like Jessica Lange'
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Western Daily Press - Found Jun. 22, 2009 Blake Lively has been compared to a young Jessica Lange by writer and director Rebecca Miller. |
Every picture tells a story: the photos of Jessica Lange
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Vindy.com - Found May. 24, 2009 By GUY D’ASTOLFO vindicator entertainment writer Jessica Lange is attracted to the mystery a photograph can hold. |
Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange: Emmy Awards Showdown
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The National Ledger - Pop Culture - Found Apr. 24, 2009 Actress Drew Barrymore is set for a big fight with co-star Jessica Lange ? for an Emmy Award. |
Brian Viner: Natural-born winners skip charm school
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The Independent - Found 17 hours ago And he spent some years shacked up with the lovely Jessica Lange. In a masculinity contest, I'd say he'd beat De Villiers hands down. |
Cinema At The Square Returns To PlayhouseSquare 8/6-23 With 15 ...
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Broadway World - Found Jul. 2, 2009 Directed by Sydney Pollack, Starring Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange. 1982 USA 116 minutes. |
Jessica Lange Biography
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Jessica Lange
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| Jessica Lange | |
Lange at the 1990 Academy Awards |
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| Born | Jessica Phyllis Lange April 20, 1949 Cloquet, Minnesota, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Spouse(s) | Paco Grande (1970-1981) |
| Domestic partner(s) | Sam Shepard (1982-present) |
Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is a two-time Academy Award-, four-time Golden Globe-winning American stage and screen actress. With a career that has spanned thirty-five years and six Oscar nominations, she may be most notable for her performances in Frances, Tootsie, Sweet Dreams and Blue Sky.
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Early life
Lange, the third of four children, was born in Cloquet, Minnesota, the daughter of Dorothy Florence (née Sahlman) and Albert John Lange, who was a teacher and salesman.1 Her maternal grandparents were of Finnish descent, while her paternal grandparents were German and Dutch.234 She studied art briefly at the University of Minnesota before going to Paris, France, where she studied mime with Étienne Decroux. She returned to New York City, New York in 1973 and took acting lessons while working as a waitress and a fashion model for the Wilhelmina Models agency.
Career
Film
In 1976, Dino De Laurentiis cast her in his motion picture remake of King Kong, which started and almost ended her career. Although the King Kong remake was a top moneymaker for Paramount Pictures, critics were not kind to the film and Lange did not appear in another film for three years, when Bob Fosse cast her as the glamorous figure of death in All That Jazz (1979). The unfavorable reviews were devastating but critics took notice with her impressive turn in Bob Rafelson's remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981).
Her performance in her next film, Frances (1982), in which she portrayed actress Frances Farmer, was highly lauded and earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She received two Academy Award nominations that year, the other for Best Supporting Actress in the comedy Tootsie (1982), for which she won. She continued giving impressive performances through the 1980s and 1990s in films such as Sweet Dreams (1985) (playing country/western singer Patsy Cline), Music Box (1989), Men Don't Leave (1990), and Blue Sky (1994), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Broadway/Stage
In 1992, Lange made her Broadway-theatre début in New York City opposite Alec Baldwin in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. She appeared in the West End in London, United Kingdom, in 2000, as Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night. In 2005, she returned to Broadway in another Tennessee Williams play, The Glass Menagerie with Christian Slater.
Humanitarian work and political views
She is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). She has also been a public critic of former U.S. President George W. Bush, once calling his administration, "a self-serving regime of deceit, hypocrisy and belligerence."5
Personal life
Lange was married to photographer Paco Grande from 1970-1981. Since 1982, she has lived with playwright/actor Sam Shepard. She has three children, Aleksandra (born 1981) from her relationship with dancer/actor Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Hannah Jane (born 1985) and Walker Samuel (born 1987) with Shepard.
Lange currently lives in New York City.
Filmography
References
- ^ Jessica Lange Biography (1949-)
- ^ Jessica Lange genealogy. Rootsweb.com.
- ^ Jessica Lange as Willa Cather's Prairie Heroine - Patricia Brennan, ""I'm half Finnish and half Dutch and German", The Washington Post, February 2, 1992
- ^ http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/archives/1990/9001170071.asp M.L. Lyke, "The Yin and Yang of Jessica Lange Actress Often Defies Her Glamorous Image." Seattle Post-Intelligencer. January 16, 1990.
- ^ White House: Kerry Should Apologize for Filthy Fund-Raiser. Newsmax.com. 9 July 2004.
External links
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jessica Lange |
- Jessica Lange at the Internet Movie Database
- Jessica Lange at the Internet Broadway Database
- Jessica Lange commentary on the Iraq War
- Jessica Lange biographical page
- PopMatters.com, Jessica Lange: The Anti-Streep
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