By Cordillia Marvine
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Jessica Phyllis Lange (/læŋ/; born April 20, 1949) is an American actress. Known for her roles on stage and screen she has received numerous accolades and is one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. Lange has received two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and an Olivier Award.
Lange made her professional film debut in the remake King Kong (1976) which earned her the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. Lange went on to receive two Academy Awards, her first for Best Supporting Actress as a soap opera star in the comedy Tootsie (1982) and her second for Best Actress playing a bipolar housewife in the drama Blue Sky (1994). Her other Oscar-nominated roles were for Frances (1982), Country (1984), Sweet Dreams (1985), and Music Box (1989). She also acted in films such as All That Jazz (1979), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), Crimes of the Heart (1986), Cape Fear (1991), Rob Roy (1995), Big Fish (2003), and Broken Flowers (2005).
For her roles on television she received her first Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Big Edie in the HBO movie Grey Gardens (2009). Lange gained new recognition by starring in FX‘s horror anthology, American Horror Story (2011–2015, 2018), which earned her two additional Primetime Emmys for its first and third seasons. She was Emmy-nominated for her roles as Blanche DuBois in the CBS film A Streetcar Named Desire (1995), a wife in the HBO television movie Normal (2003), and Joan Crawford in FX the miniseries Feud: Bette and Joan (2017). Lange has also acted in the television films O Pioneers! (1992), and The Great Lillian Hall (2024) as well as the Netflix series The Politician (2019).
On stage, Lange made her Broadway debut as Blanche DuBois in the revival of the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire (1992). Lange won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role as Mary Cavan Tyrone in the Broadway revival of the Eugene O’Neill play Long Day’s Journey into Night (2016). Lange returned to Broadway playing the hardheaded matriarch in the Paula Vogel play Mother Play (2024).
Lange is also a photographer with five published books of photography. She has been a foster parent and holds a Goodwill Ambassador position for UNICEF, specializing in HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Russia.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Celebration of Easter by Orthodox Christians around the world following the Julian calendar. Learn how Easter’s dates are calculated.
Easter in the western Christian church can occur as early as March 22 and as late as April 25. It is observed on the Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon (a fixed spring date set by the church). This Christian holy day celebrates the resurrection of Christ after his Crucifixion and was probably the earliest of the church’s annual festivals. Folk customs attached to the festival date from pre-Christian times. Eggs, traditionally forbidden during Lent, symbolize new life. The Easter Bunny recalls the hare, the Egyptian symbol of fertility. Easter may have derived its name from the Saxon goddess Eostre, whose feast was celebrated each spring at about this time. Or it may have derived from the word oster, meaning “rising.” Learn more about Easter.
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Died
- George Clinton (became first U.S. vice president to die in office) –
- Bram Stoker (author) –
- Benny Hill (comedian) –
- Christopher Robin Milne (son of A.A. Milne, basis for the Winnie the Pooh character Christopher Robin) –
- Dorothy Height (civil rights activist; she stood on the platform with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during his historic I Have a Dream” speech”) –
Born
- Daniel Chester French (sculptor) –
- Stanley Marcus (retailer) –
- Lionel Hampton (jazz musician) –
- Ryan O’Neal (actor) –
- Jessica Lange (actress) –
- Don Mattingly (baseball player) –
- Felix Baumgartner (daredevil) –
- Shemar Moore (actor) –
- Joey Lawrence (actor) –
- Funny Cide (thoroughbred race horse, won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes in 2003) –
Events
- Hot Springs Reservation (now National Park) was established in Arkansas –
- French scientists Pierre and Marie Curie isolated radium chloride from pitchblende –
- Boston’s Fenway Park hosted its first professional baseball game. The Boston Red Sox played the New York Highlanders (now the Yankees). –
- Electron microscope demonstrated to public –
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau was sworn in as 15th Prime Minister of Canada –
- 54-pound 8-ounce freshwater drum caught in Nickajack Lake, Tennessee –
- During a fishing trip, an upset swamp rabbit approached President Carter’s boat, Plains, GA –
- Tony Gemignani spun 17.6 ounces of dough for 2 minutes to form pizza base 33.2 inches wide, in Minneapolis, Minnesota –
- New York Yankee’s Aaron Hicks threw 105.5 mph ball from left field, setting baseball record –
Weather
- A San Antonio hailstorm severely injured ten soldiers and killed two horses –
- Six inches of snow in northern New Hampshire –
- Deadly F3 tornado touched down in Utica, Illinois –
- Ice out, Lake Winnipesaukee, NH –
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