Jessica Lange

After this, the actress began a relationship with American playwright Sam Shepard. The couple lived together till 2009 and had two children, Hannah Jane and Samuel Walker. In the early 1990s, the actress fostered a child with disabilities.

Though Lange does not follow any particular religion, she follows certain tenets of Buddhism.

Jessica Phyllis Lange was born on April 20, 1949 in Cloquet, Minnesota. Her mother Dorothy Florence was a housewife while her father Albert John Lange was a traveling salesman and teacher. She has two older sisters named Ann and Jane as well as a younger brother named George.

She attended Cloquet High School and later studied art and photography at the University of Minnesota. She later studied mime theatre and joined the opera company Opéra-Comique as a dancer

Jessica Lange started her career as a model in the Wilhelmina modeling agency. She soon ventured into acting and made her film debut in the 1976 flick ‘King Kong’. After this, she was cast as the Angel of Death in a semiautobiographical movie titled ‘All That Jazz’.

In 1980, she did the flick ‘How to Beat the High Cost of Living’ alongside Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin. A year later, she was offered the lead role in the film ‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’.

The actress played the title character of actress Frances Farmer in the biographical movie ‘Frances’ in 1982. She then produced and acted the topical flick, ‘Country’ in 1984. The same year, Lange appeared in the TV film ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’.

After this, she was cast as Patsy Cline in the movie ‘Sweet Dreams’. This was followed 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 appeared 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 role of Blanche DuBois in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’.

In 1982, Jessica Lange had a supporting role in Sydney Pollack's flick ‘Tootsie’. In this movie, the actress starred opposite Dustin Hoffman. The film became a major hit and helped to establish her career.

In 1989, she played Ann Talbot in Costa-Gavras' ‘Music Box’. In this movie, her performance as a Hungarian lawyer earned her an Academy Award nomination as well a Golden Globe nomination for best actress.

She played a manic depressive army wife in Tony Richardson's final movie ‘Blue Sky’ in 1994. The film received critical praise and won numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actress for Jessica Lange.