Jessica Lange Bio, Age, Children, King Kong, Net Worth, Movies & Wiki

Jessica Lange is an American actress who has derived international recognition for her work in theater, cinema, and television. She started her career as a model and was noticed by film producer Dino De Laurentiis while modeling for Wilhelmina modeling agency. Lange made her film beginning in the 1976 flick ‘King Kong,’ for which she earned her first Golden Globe Award. She went on to act in many other movies consisting of ‘Tootsie’, ‘Country’, ‘Music Box’, ‘Sweet Dreams’, ‘Frances’, ‘Grey Gardens’, and ‘Blue Sky’, to name a few. Over the course of her pervasive career, she has won several renowned awards including the Academy Award.

In fact, she is one of the 26 actresses to earn an Academy Award for a comedic character. In addition to being an actress, Lange is also a professional photojournalist who has her artwork exhibited in numerous galleries like Howard Greenberg Gallery, Butler Institute of American Art, Rosegallery, Polk Museum of Art, Centro Cultural de Cascais and A Gallery for Fine Photography. Presently, she is a UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassador who trains in HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Russia. A less known fact about the American artiste is that she has also subsidized a number of songs as a singer.

Jessica Lange Wiki/Bio

Birth Name	Jessica Phyllis Lange
Nick Name	Jessie
Age	(as in 2023) 74 years
Religion	She doesn’t follow any set religion but, she regularly practices Buddhism.
Sun Sign/Zodiac Sign	Taurus
Birth Place	Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
Date of Birth	20 April 1949
Nationality	American
Residence	Stillwater, Minnesota, USA
Home Town	Cloquet, Minnesota
Hobbies	Not available
Family
Mother’s Name	Dorothy Florence (Housewife)
Father’s Name	Albert John Lange (Teacher and Traveling salesman)
Brother	George Lange (Younger)
Sister	• Ann Lange (Older) • Jane Lange (Older)
Others	• George Oscar Alexander Lange (Paternal Grandfather) • Tena Trientje Eitens (Paternal Grandmother) • George Ilmar Sahlman (Maternal Grandfather) • Lillian Elvira Buskala (Maternal Grandmother)
Boyfriends/Affairs
Affairs/Boyfriends	• Bob Fosse (1970s) • Mikhail Baryshnikov (1976-1982) • Sam Shepard (1982–2009)
Marital Status, Husband and Children
Husband/Spouse	Paco Grande (m. 1970–1981)
Marriage Date	29 July 1970
Children	• Daughters- Hannah Jane Shepard (born in 1985) (With Her Partner Sam Shepard) Shura Baryshnikov (born in 1981) (With Her Partner Mikhail Baryshnikov) • Son- Samuel Walker Shepard (With Her Partner Sam Shepard)
Education
School	Cloquet High School
College/University	University of Minnesota
Educational Qualification	Graduated
Profession	Actress, Model, Singer, and Photographer
Brands Endorsed	Marc Jacobs Beauty brand
Career Manager	• Brian Swardstrom • Untitled Entertainment • Talent Management Company, Beverly Hills, California, USA
Height, Weight, and Figure Measurements
Height (Approx.)	in centimeters- 173 cm in meters- 1.73 m in feet inches- 5’8”
Weight (Approx.)	in kilograms- 63 kg in pounds- 139 lbs
Figure Measurements
Breast Size	36 Inches
Hips Size	36 Inches
Waist Size	24 Inches
Extra Ordinary Features
Race / Ethnicity	White
Hair Color	Blonde
Eye Color	Hazel
S*xual Orientation	Straight
Dress Size	Not Available
Shoe Size	8.5 (U.S.)
Favourite Things
Favourite Place	Scotland
Favourite Novelist	Émile Zola
Favourite American Horror Story Season	Freak Show (4th Season)
Favourite Co-star	Kim Stanley
Controversies	None

Life Journey

Jessica Lange was born on April 20, 1949, in Cloquet, Minnesota. The third of four children, Lange was born to Dorothy Florence and Albert John Lange, who was a lecturer and salesman. As a child, Lange’s family moved continually due to her father’s regularly changing jobs.

Lange afterward understands that her family “lived like gypsies.” But rather of renouncing against this ephemeral lifestyle, Lange derived the travel bug. By the time she joined as an art student at the University of Minnesota in 1967, she had enormous dreams of seeing the world.

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In the spring of 1968, before she had completed her freshman year, Lange saw and fell in love with 24-year-old photography lecturer Paco Grande. Lange and Grande left school and migrated throughout the United States and Europe. They resided mostly out of Grande’s van, and Lange met many of Grande’s friends within the film society.

They came back to Minnesota briefly in July 1970, where they were married. The newlyweds migrated to New York, finally settling into the SoHo art community. Grande pursued to work on film projects and Lange, influenced by French cinema, made the judgment to study mime.

In 1971, Lange shifted to Paris to study mime with lecturer Etienne Decroux. Her two years of education with Decroux triggered an interest in acting, and she came back to New York in 1973 to seek a film career.

Jessica Lange Net Worth

Jessica Lange has a net worth of $20 million dollars.

Debut in acting with ‘King Kong‘

During her time abroad, Lange’s marriage to Paco Grande had disintegrated. Grande quit Lange in New York, where she initiated working as a waitress and model in the Wilhelmina Agency in the form to make ends meet.

In the plunge of 1975, film producer Dino De Laurentiis talked Lange’s modeling agency looking for an actress to star in his new King Kong movie. A representative at Wilhelmina proposed Lange for the part. After a Hollywood screen evaluation, she secured the role.

King Kong knocked theaters in 1976 and was a box-office hit. Reviews for Lange, however, were widely negative and concentrated on the fact that Lange was a former model. Although she had authorized a seven-year acting contract with De Laurentiis, Lange did not function for three years following King Kong’s release.

During this turn, Lange met Russian dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, and the two started dating.

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Jessica Lange Movies And TV Shows

• Jessica Lange initiated her career as a model in the Wilhelmina modeling agency. She soon operated into acting and made her film appearance in the 1976 flick ‘King Kong’. After this, she was cast as the Angel of Death in a semiautobiographical movie named ‘All That Jazz’.
• In 1980, she did the arrival ‘How to Beat the High Cost of Living’ alongside Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin. A year later, she was offered the lead character in the film ‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’.
• The actress acted the title role of actress Frances Farmer in the biographical movie ‘Frances’ in 1982. She then formed and acted the topical flick, ‘Country’ in 1984. The same year, Lange emerged in the TV film ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’.
• After this, she was worked as Patsy Cline in the movie ‘Sweet Dreams’. This was pursued by her low profile movies ‘Crimes of the Heart’, ‘Far North’, and ‘Everybody’s All-American’ in the late 1980s.
• Between 1990 and 1992, the American beauty emerged in the films ‘Men Don’t Leave’ and ‘Cape Fear’ as well as in the TV movie ‘O Pioneers!’ During this time, she also made her Broadway debut with the character of Blanche DuBois in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’.
• She performed important roles in the films ‘Losing Isaiah’, ‘Rob Roy’ and ‘A Thousand Acres’ in the mid-1990s. She then emerged in the thriller flick ‘Hush’ and in the comedy-drama flick ‘Cousin Bette’ in 1998.
• In 1999, Jessica Lange emerged in the film modification of William Shakespeare’s play, ‘Titus Andronicus.’ The movie, titled ‘Titus,’ also emphasized Alan Cumming and Anthony Hopkins.
• She materialized in a London stage production of ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’. Then after materializing in the 2001 film ‘Prozac Nation’, she acted in HBO’s TV movie ‘Normal’ in 2003. That year, the actress also did the films ‘Masked and Anonymous’ and ‘Big Fish’.
• During the year 2005, she was emphasized in the big screen movies ‘Broken Flowers’ and ‘Don’t Come Knocking’ as well as in the play ‘The Glass Menagerie’.
• In 2009, Lange characterized the role of Big Edie in the television movie ‘Grey Gardens’.
• In 2011, she followed the cast of the horror anthology series titled ‘American Horror Story’ and went on to act in many of its seasons including ‘American Horror Story: Asylum’, ‘American Horror Story: Coven’ and ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’.
• In 2013 and 2014, the American beauty did the films ‘In Secret’ and ‘The Gambler’. She then materialized in the movie ‘Wild Oats’ in 2016.
• That year, she also worked in the web series, ‘Horace and Pete’. Lange next starred in the anthology series titled ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ and also played as its co-producer.

Facts

1. She is a vegetarian.
2. She wished to be a painter before inclining an actress.
3. She has been through a phase of depression but never believed in seeking therapy for it.
4. Jessica has published several collections of her pictures. In 2008, it was published under the title 50 Photographs, a black and white collection. In 2010, it was a collection titled In Mexico, and in 2013, she presented a children’s picture book disclosed It’s About a Little Bird.
5. She became UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassador on June 2, 2003, fixating on HIV/AIDS and immunization.
6. She supports the Buddhist monks in Nepal in their cause.
7. Jessica has been vocal about “ageism” in Hollywood, leading out that it works with a male point of view.
8. She has 2 granddaughters from her daughter Aleksandra and her husband, called Adah and Ilse Bryan.
9. She has a tattoo of a curve moon on her hip, which she got at the age of 19 in Paris.
10. In 2016, she became the 22nd thespian to receive the Triple Crown of Acting in the history of American entertainment.
11. She is not active on any social media site.

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