 Lange made her professional film debut in Dino De Laurentiis's 1976 remake of the 1933 action-adventure classic "King Kong", for which she also won her first Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.In 1983, she won her second Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a soap opera star in "Tootsie" (1982) and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the troubled actress Frances Farmer in "Frances" (1982).Lange received three more nominations for "Country" (1984), "Sweet Dreams" (1985) and "Music Box" (1989), before winning her third Golden Globe Award, and the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as a manic depressive housewife in "Blue Sky" (1994).