Actors and actresses have been nominated for two
Academy Awards in the same year.
Jessica Lange
Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is an American actress who
works in films, theatre and television and has received six
Academy Award nominations and won twice. She got nominated in two categories in the same year for
Best Actress in
Frances and
Best Supporting Actress in
Tootsie
in 1982, the latter of which she won. She worked as a waitress briefly
to support herself before being discovered by fashion illustrator
Antonio Lopez. She became a fashion model for
Wilhelmina Models agency during which she was offered to join
Hollywood
by the producer Dino De Laurentiis. She has done television work
extensively as well as did theatre. She is also currently serving as a
Goodwill Ambassador for the
United Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) and is known for her charitable causes. She is also expressive
about her political views, especially being a harsh critic of the
former U.S. President George W. Bush and as a supporter of the Buddhist
monks in Nepal.
Sigourney Weaver
Susan Alexandra Weaver (born October 8, 1949) is an American actress who has three
Oscar nominations so far to her name. In 1988, she was nominated by the
Academy for two
Oscars, one as
Best Actress in
Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey and the other for
Best Supporting Actress in
Working Girl. She did not win for any of these. But after making
Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey, she got involved in working for
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
and now is its honorary chairperson. She is an environmental
enthusiast. She changed her name to Sigourney Weaver since 1963 inspired
by a minor fictional character
Sigourney Howard from the novel
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Both of her parents are from the show business,
father being a television producer and mother an actress, so she has
grown up having genes to do what she does
Holly Hunter
Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American television and film actress who has been nominated four times for an
Oscar and twice in the year 1993. She won the
Best Actress Oscar for
The Piano and was nominated in the same year for
The Firm for
Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
She is deaf from one ear and this sometimes causes problems while
filming which at times lead to altering of scripts and scenes to fit her
need. She holds a degree in drama from
Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh and there she was a class fellow of Frances McDormand.
She had no deliberate idea about joining films, but a chance encounter
with the playwright Beth Henley led to her performing on stage.
