Editing Jessica Lange (section)

==Early life and education==
Jessica Phyllis Lange was born on April 20, 1949, in [[Cloquet, Minnesota]]. Her father, Albert John Lange, was a teacher and traveling salesman, and her mother, Dorothy Florence (née Sahlman), was a housewife. She has two older sisters, Jane and Ann, and a younger brother, George.<ref name="tcm">{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/108398%7C0/Jessica-Lange/#family-companions|title=Family & Companions|publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]]|access-date=December 7, 2022|archive-date=April 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421215317/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/108398%7C0/Jessica-Lange/#family-companions|url-status=live}}</ref> Her paternal ancestry is German and Dutch, her maternal ancestry Finnish.<ref>{{harvnb|Uzarowski|2023|p=2}}: Paternal ancestry “somewhat unclear,” her grandfather from [[Żagań, Poland]], formerly part of [[Prussia]]. And p. 2-3: Lang’s mother from “proud Finnish stock,” her father George Sahlman immigrating from [[Kuopio, Finland]]</ref><ref>Multiple sources:

* {{cite web |title=Jessica Lange |url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/celeb/lange.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023214018/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/celeb/lange.htm |archive-date=October 23, 2007 |access-date=August 9, 2013 |publisher=Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com}}
* {{Cite news |last=Brennan |first=Patricia |date=1992-02-02 |title='O Pioneers!' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/tv/1992/02/02/o-pioneers/c57c057a-f498-485d-ae2b-acaf6896ce9b/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286 |quote=I'm half Finnish and half Dutch and German.}}
* {{Cite news |last=Lyke |first=M. L. |date=January 16, 1990 |title=The Yin and Yang of Jessica Lange Actress Often Defies Her Glamorous Image |url=https://seattlepi.newsbank.com/doc/news/0EB0495622984273 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250429024410/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AMNEWS&docref=news/0EB0495622984273&f=basic |archive-date=2025-04-29 |access-date=2025-04-29 |work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] |via=[[NewsBank]]}}</ref> Due to the nature of her father's professions, her family moved more than a dozen times to various towns and cities in Minnesota before settling down in her hometown, where she graduated from [[Cloquet High School]].<ref name="Los Angeles Times">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-19-ca-44583-story.html |title=Steeled Magnolia : It seems as if Jessica Lange is a supermarket shelf of emotions. And that doesn't even count what she manages to do on the screen |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 19, 1995 |access-date=August 9, 2013 |first=Kristine |last=McKenna |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054505/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-19/entertainment/ca-44583_1_jessica-lange |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Uzarowski|2023|pp=2,3}}: “...a lack of stability and economic security” due to her father’s transience jobs</ref>

In 1967, she received a scholarship to study art and photography at the [[University of Minnesota]], where she met and began dating Spanish photographer Paco Grande.<ref name="independent.co.uk" /> After the two married in 1970, Lange dropped out of college to pursue a more bohemian lifestyle, traveling through the United States and Mexico in a [[microbus]] with Grande.<ref name="independent.co.uk" /><ref name="Los Angeles Times" /> The pair then moved to Paris, where they drifted apart. While in Paris, Lange studied [[Corporeal mime|mime theater]] under the supervision of [[Étienne Decroux]] and joined the [[Opéra-Comique]] as a dancer.<ref name="independent.co.uk" /> She later studied acting with [[Mira Rostova]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Grode |first=Eric |date=2009-02-06 |title=Mira Rostova, Coach to Montgomery Clift, Dies at 99 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/movies/06rostova.html |access-date=2023-04-17 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=April 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423054832/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/movies/06rostova.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and at [[HB Studio]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://hbstudio.org/about-hb-studio/alumni/ |title=HB Studio – Notable Alumni |access-date=March 14, 2019 |archive-date=February 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212150453/https://hbstudio.org/about-hb-studio/alumni/ |url-status=live }}</ref> in New York City.