Paco Grande: Facts About Jessica Lange's ex-husband

Paco Grande is an actor, known for Postales (2010) and also the ex-husband of Jessica Lange. Paco Grande’s ex-wife Lange is an American actress. She is the 13th actress to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, having won two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award, along with a Screen Actors Guild Award and five Golden Globe Awards. 

There isn’t much information available regarding Paco’s early life or his family – but it is known that he was born in Madrid, Spain in 1943 and also he is said to be an only child only because Paco Grande never talked about having any siblings.

Jessica Lange’s ex-husband is believed to have studied at a local high school in Madrid, and after matriculation, he enrolled at the Complutense University of Madrid. Paco Grande later became a photographer and an actor.

Paco Grande and Jessica Lange’s marriage

How did the two former love birds meet and started their relationship? The former couple has not discussed the circumstances under which their paths crossed and resulted in marriage. However, it is known that they 1970 to 1982. They are believed to have dated for two years before getting married. They started dating in 1968. Paco was 25 at the time while Jessica was 19.

Paco Grande and Jessica Lange got married on 29th Jul 1970 in a beautiful ceremony in the presence of their friends, family, and loved ones. 10 years later they divorced in 1981. Though they separated not long after moving to Europe during the mid-1970s, they did not divorce until the early 1980s, after which Lange paid him an undisclosed sum in alimony. Paco Grande and his ex-wife Lange didn’t have any known children.

Ever since he divorced Jessica, Paco Grande has been off the grid and has been secretive about his love life. There is nothing known about any affairs or personal life in the past 37 years.

Jessica Lange After her Divorce from Paco Grande

From 1976 to 1982, Paco Grande’s ex-wife Lange was partnered with renowned Russian ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, with whom she had her first child, Aleksandra Lange “Shura” Baryshnikov (born 1981). During that time, she was also sporadically linked with Bob Fosse, with whom she remained friends until his death.

In 1982, she met and entered into a relationship with playwright Sam Shepard. They had two children: daughter Hannah Jane Shepard (born 1986) and son Samuel Walker Shepard (born 1987). They lived together in Virginia, New Mexico, Minnesota, and eventually New York City, before separating in 2009. Lange often returns to Duluth, Minnesota, and has said of the city, “It’s the one place that has remained constant in my life … After living all over [the] world and traveling everywhere I’ve wanted to go, I keep coming back here.”

Though Paco Grande’s ex-wife Lange does not follow any set religion, she periodically practices Buddhism. She once admitted, “It’s been a discipline that makes sense more than anything because it’s like a science. I’ve never been a religious person. I’ve always looked for some kind of spiritual meaning. I didn’t grow up going to church. My mother’s family were atheists and my father’s side was confused.” She is also a vegetarian.

Paco Grande’s ex-wife Lange has also revealed that she suffers from severe bouts of depression, once admitting, “I have never been a believer in psychoanalysis or therapy or anything like that. I’ve never done that.”She confessed, “Though my dark side is dormant right now, it continues to play a big role in whatever capacity I have to be creative. That’s the well I’m able to tap into, where all the anguish, rage, and sadness are stored.”

Paco Grande’s ex-wife Lange won a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award nomination in 1995 for her remarkable performance in “A Streetcar Named Desire” movie while winning a Golden Globe in 1997 for her role in “A Thousand Acres” film. Jessica Lange won her last Golden Globe and Emmy Awards in 2012 when she played a supportive role in “American Horror Story” movie

Paco Grande’s ex-wife went on to win her first and only Tony Award for playing the main role in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”. Adding to her acting career, Lange also published two photography books entitled “50 Photographs” and “In Mexico”.

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