Known for:	Blue Velvet, Death Wish, Clear and Present Danger
Birth name:	Hope Elise Ross Lange
Birthday:	28 November 1931, Redding Ridge, Connecticut, USA

Mother of Christopher Murray. Father was the music arranger for Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.. With husband Don Murray they had a son, the actor Christopher Murray, and a daughter, Patricia. The marriage was dissolved in 1961. In 1968, Lange turned to television, taking on the role of Carolyn Muir in the popular series The Ghost & Mrs. Muir. She won two consecutive Emmys for that role in 1969 and 1970. Lange earned the only Oscar nomination of her career for her supporting role in the provocative film Peyton Place in which she played an incest victim who murders her rapist stepfather. Made her acting debut on Broadway at the age of 11 in Sidney Kingsley's play "The Patriots". When she co-starred with Marilyn Monroe on Bus Stop, Monroe disliked the presence of a younger blonde and sent a series of memos to producers and the director, even suggesting that Lange be made to dye her hair brown. For two years, Lange lived in a sparsely furnished home with crates for coffee tables and only a box spring and mattress for her bed. "She put all her money into the refugee project because that is the kind of person she was", Don Murray said.

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