Oscar Winners on the Small Screen

Winning an Academy Award used to mean you’d never have to stoop to doing television again. But nowadays, more than a dozen former Oscar winners are finding new dramatic challenges on the small screen. Click through to find out which award-winners you can watch at home every week.

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Jessica Lange

Won For: Playing Dustin Hoffman’s love interest in 1982’s “Tootsie,” and then again for playing an unstable housewife in 1994’s “Blue Sky.”

Now She Plays: Rigid nun Sister Jude on FX’s ghoulish drama “American Horror Story”; she also won an Emmy for playing nosy neighbor Constance in Season 1.
Jessica Lange

Won For: Playing Dustin Hoffman’s love interest in 1982’s “Tootsie,” and then again for playing an unstable housewife in 1994’s “Blue Sky.”

Now She Plays: Rigid nun Sister Jude on FX’s ghoulish drama “American Horror Story”; she also won an Emmy for playing nosy neighbor Constance in Season 1.