Lana Winters

 is a fictional reporter and a central character on the FX Network television series American Horror Story. Played by actress Jessica Lange, she was introduced in the premiere episode of season two of the show, "Welcome to Briarcliff".

Biography
Lana Winters is a lesbian journalist who is placed as an inmate at Briarcliff after sneaking over its' walls in order to get a report on the mistreatment of patients. It is here that she befriends Kit Walker and is also subjected to different methods such as electroshock therapy and aversion therapy involving touching a male patient's genitalia while touching herself at the same time in order to rid herself of her homosexuality (seen during this time as a mental illness rather than a sexual orientation.)

After her release from Briarcliff, she becomes a driving force behind the shutting down of the asylum over their cruel and unethical treatment of patients, as well as being indirectly responsible for the suicide of Timothy Howard. Her son by rape (Oliver Thredson) and the modern-day Bloody Face, Johnny Morgan, shows up in an attempt to kill her but she kills him in self-defense.

Lana later appears in the finale of the sixth season, Roanoke, where she does a one-on-one interview with Lee Harris, who agreed to the interview with Lana since Lee finds her to be more relatable, having went through a traumatic experience and killing her own child. However, the interview is interrupted by Lot Polk who launches an assault on several cops and plans to kill Lee for the deaths of his family. Lana attempts to talk him down out of this and is knocked out. She survives and is later seen on a news show while resting, comparing herself and Lee to dogs with a bone as once they get a hold of their destinies, they don't let go of them.