Jessica Lange
Birthday: 20 April 1949, Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
Birth Name: Jessica Phyllis Lange
Height: 173 cm
Jessica Phyllis Lange was born 1949 in Cloquet, Minnesota, to Dorothy Florence (Sahlman) and Albert John Lange, a traveling salesman and teacher. She is of Finnish (mother) and Dutch and German (fathe ...Show More
[on what counts in her career] Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film ma Show more
[on what counts in her career] Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set. It is the kind of acknowledgment by other actors, really. That's really what is most meaningful. Hide
Coming out of the '60s, when it was still the last gasp of bohemia, I just never thought in terms of Show more
Coming out of the '60s, when it was still the last gasp of bohemia, I just never thought in terms of career or profession. Hide
All through life, I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment. Once I started on Fran Show more
All through life, I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment. Once I started on Frances (1982), I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life. I was really hell to be around. Hide
For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach r Show more
For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. Hide
It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie (1982). I asked myself if I wanted to pla Show more
It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie (1982). I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances (1982). Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did. Hide
Jessica Lange's FILMOGRAPHY
as Actor (62)
Jessica Lange'S roles
