Hope Lange Overview:

Actress, Hope Lange, was born Hope Elise Ross Lange on Nov 28, 1931 in Redding Ridge, CT. Lange died at the age of 72 on Dec 19, 2003 in Santa Monica, CA .

HONORS and AWARDS:

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Although Lange was nominated for one Oscar, she never won a competitive Academy Award.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1957Best Supporting ActressPeyton Place (1957)Selena CrossNominated
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Hope Lange Quotes:

Gary McClain: If I were a woman, everything would be acceptable, wouldn't it?
Janet Salter: If you were a woman, I'd know how to compete with you.


Caroline Bender: What is it about women like us that make you hold us so cheaply? Aren't we the special ones from the best homes and the best colleges? I know the world outside isn't full of rainbows and happy endings, but to you, aren't we even decent?


Glenn Tyler: What do you want me to talk about?
Irene Sperry: Anything at all. Just talk.


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Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 323-324. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.

With her ex-husband, Don Murray, they had a son, actor Christopher Murray, and a daughter, Patricia Murray. The marriage was dissolved in 1961.

Lange earned the only Oscar nomination of her career for her supporting role in the provocative film Peyton Place (1957) in which she murders her rapist stepfather.

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