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Jessica Lange was born in 1949, in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA,
where her father worked as a traveling salesman. She obtained a scholarship
to study art at the University of Minnesota, but instead went to Paris to study
drama. She moved to New York, working as a model, until producer Dino De Laurentiis
cast her as the female lead in King Kong (1976). The film attracted much unfavorable
comment and as a result Lange was off the screen for three years. She was given
a small but showy part in ‘Bob Fosse’ ’s All That Jazz (1979),
before giving a memorable performance in Bob Rafelson's _Postman Always Rings
Twice, The_ (1981) , as an adulterous waitress. The following year she won rave
reviews for her exceptional portrayal of actress Frances Farmer in Frances (1982)
and a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her work in Sydney Pollack's
Tootsie (1982) (as a beautiful soap-opera actress). She was also outstanding
as country singer Patsy Cline in ‘Karel Reisz’ ’s Sweet Dreams
(1985) and as a lawyer who defends her father and discovers his past in Music
Box (1989). Other important films include Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991)
(as a frightened housewife) and 'Tony Richardson' 's Blue Sky (1994), for which
she won a Best Actress Academy Award as the mentally unbalanced wife of a military
officer. She made her Broadway debut in 1992, playing Blanche in Tennessee Williams'
‘A Streetcar Named Desire’.
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