Beautiful women over 45: Jessica Lange
Our 10-page gallery of beautiful women over 45 begins here with Hollywood star Jessica Lange, hot at 60. She was born in April 1949 in Minnesota, a state to which she has remained attached through her long career.
Minnesota belle Jessica Lange
She reached stardom with King Kong in 1976 which the critics panned but audiences loved. The criticism affected Lange to the extent she didn't make another movie for three years. Critics were much kinder to her in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), in which she starred alongside Jack Nicholson.
Six Academy Award nominations
Lange has received six Academy Award nominations. Her best films are Sweet Dreams (1985) (playing country/western singer Patsy Cline), Music Box (1989), Men Don't Leave (1990), and Blue Sky (1994), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
A young Jessica Lange
Politics
Jessica Lange was an outspoken critic of former president George W. Bush and a supporter of Barack Obama during his presidential election campaign. She once said of the Bush administration that it was "a self-serving regime of deceit, hypocrisy and belligerence." She is also known to be irked by religious conservatives, saying: "Allow diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings."
Private life
Since 1982, she has lived with American playwright and actor Sam Shepard. She has three children, Aleksandra (born 1981) from her relationship with dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Hannah Jane (born 1985) and Walker Samuel (born 1987) with Shepard.