Jessica Lange summary

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Jessica Lange, (born April 20, 1949, Cloquet, Minn., U.S.), U.S. film actress. She studied mime in Paris and worked as a model in New York before making her movie debut in King Kong (1976). She appeared in All That Jazz (1979) and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) and became a star with Frances (1982) and Tootsie (1982, Academy Award). Noted for her beauty and her ability to reveal the inner psyche of her characters, Lange won praise for her roles in Country (1984), Sweet Dreams (1985), and Music Box (1989). Her later films included Blue Sky (1994, Academy Award), Rob Roy (1995), A Thousand Acres (1997), Titus (1999), Big Fish (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), and The Gambler (2014). Lange also acted on television, and she won Emmy Awards for her performances in the TV movie Grey Gardens (2009) and the anthology series American Horror Story. Her stage credits included Long Day’s Journey into Night (2016, Tony Award).

Academy Award Summary

Academy Award, any of a number of awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., to recognize achievement in the film industry. The awards were first presented in 1929, and winners receive a gold-plated statuette commonly

acting Summary

Acting, the performing art in which movement, gesture, and intonation are used to realize a fictional character for the stage, for motion pictures, or for television. (Read Lee Strasberg’s 1959 Britannica essay on acting.) Acting is generally agreed to be a matter less of mimicry, exhibitionism, or

film Summary

Film, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. Because of the optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film