Jessica Lange (Fiona Goode) and Christine Ebersole (her mentor supreme Anna Leigh Leighton) both played the role of "Big Edie" Beale of Grey Gardens. Lange in the film adaptation of the 1975 Maysles brothers' documentary and Ebersole in Act 1 of the off-Broadway and Broadway adaptation/musical. Ebersole also played "Little Edie" Beale (the daughter) in Act 2.