Jessica Lange Net Worth

Jessica Lange's Quotes

• 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.
• 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.
• [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.
• For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there.
• Coming out of the '60s, when it was still the last gasp of bohemia, I just never thought in terms of career or profession.

Interesting Facts about Jessica Lange

1. Born at 11:00am-CST.
2. Had a long time relationship with Sam Shepard (1982-2009).
3. Jessica has three children: Aleksandra "Shura" Lange Baryshnikov (b. March 5, 1981) by Mikhail Baryshnikov; Hannah Jane Shepard (b. January 13, 1986) and Samuel Walker Shepard (b. June 14, 1987) by Sam Shepard.
4. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#64). [1995]
5. She is a big supporter for rights of the Monks of Nepal.
6. Lived in Minnesota with Sam and their children for a few years, but now living in New York. [2004]
7. Between modeling jobs, she waitressed at the Lion's Head in Greenwich Village.
8. In 1970s Manhattan, Lange was represented by Wilhelmina Models, the same agency that later discovered Gia Carangi.
9. Her interpretation of the pushed-to-the-limit Cora in the remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) was partially inspired by the downbeat life of B-movie actress Barbara Payton. In a Rolling Stone interview, Lange mentioned how she thought her character might have first drifted to Hollywood as an aspiring starlet, and co-star Jack Nicholson gave her Payton's lurid, tell-all autobiography "I Am Not Ashamed" to look over on the set. Coincidentally, Lange and the blonde Payton were both born in Cloquet, Minn.
10. She is one of the elite twelve thespians to have been nominated for both a Supporting and Lead Acting Academy Award in the same year for their achievements in two different movies. The other eleven are Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald (he has been nominated in both categories for the same role in the same movie), Sigourney Weaver, Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Emma Thompson, Julianne Moore, Jamie Foxx Cate Blanchett, and Scarlett Johansson.
11. Beat Meryl Streep for the role of Patsy Cline in Sweet Dreams (1985), according to Streep. Streep said it was one of the few if not the only role she ever went after. Then later said that she couldn't, however, imagine the movie without her (Lange).
12. She was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2001 (2000 season) for Best Actress for her performance in "Long Day's Journey into Night" at the Lyric Theatre.
13. Jessica's grandparents were born in four different countries. Her paternal grandfather, George Oscar Alexander Lange, was German, and her paternal grandmother, Tena Trientje Eitens, was Dutch. Her maternal grandfather, George Ilmar Sahlman, was Finnish, and her maternal grandmother, Lillian Elvira Buskala, was born in Minnesota, to Finnish parents.
14. Attended the Guthrie Theater Drama School at the prestigious Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Received the Anton Chekhov Fine Arts Award.
15. Daughter Shura (Alexandra) Baryshnikov, whose father is Mikhail Baryshnikov, graduated from Marlboro College in Vermont, the same college that Chris Noth attended in the '70s. [2003]
16. Is of Polish and Finnish descent.
17. Her performance as Frances Farmer in Frances (1982) is ranked #85 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time. [2006]
18. Daughter of Dorothy Sahlman (1913-1998) and Al Lange, a teacher (1913-1989).
19. Has two older sisters named Ann Lange and Jane Lange and a younger brother named George Lange who is a pilot.
20. She was one of the favorite actresses of Benazir Bhutto.