Teresa Wright
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- born: 27/Oct/1918 (Manhattan, New York, USA)
- died: 06/Mar/2005 (New Haven, Connecticut, USA) - heart attack
Biography
Muriel Teresa Wright was an Academy Award-winning American actress, known professionaly as Teresa Wright.
Early life
Wright was born in Harlem, New York City and grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey. During her years at Columbia High School, she became seriously interested in acting and spent her summers working in Provincetown theater productions.
Career
In the fall of 1939, she appeared in "Life with Father", playing the role of Mary Skinner for two years. It was there that she was discovered by a talent scout hired by Samuel Goldwyn to find a young actress for the role of Bette Davis' daughter in the 1941 adaptation of Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes". She was immediately signed to a five-year Hollywood contract but asserted her seriousness as an actress.
After earning an Academy Award nomination for "The Little Foxes", Wright appeared as the wife of Lou Gehrig in "Pride of the Yankees" and then as Greer Garson's daughter-in-law in "Mrs. Miniver". She received two Academy Award nominations that year, for Lead Actress (for "Pride of the Yankees") and winning the award for Best Supporting Actress Oscar for ("Mrs. Miniver").
In 1943 in the film Shadow of a Doubt, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, she played the innocent girl who discovered that her beloved uncle was a murderer. Other notable films include "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) and "The Men" (1950).
After 1959 she worked mainly in television and on the stage. She was nominated for Emmys in 1957 for "The Miracle Worker" and in 1960 for "The Margaret Bourke-White Story". She was in the 1975 Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman".
Her more recent movie appearances included a major role in "Somewhere in Time" and the role of Miss Birdie in John Grisham's "The Rainmaker" in 1997.
She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 1658 Vine Street and one for television at 6405 Hollywood Blvd.
Private life
Wright was married to writer Niven Busch from 1942-1952; they had two children. She married playwright Robert Anderson in 1959; they later divorced, but maintained a close relationship until the end of her life.
She died of a heart attack at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut at the age of 86.
Filmography
With Hitchcock...
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV)
- "Three Wives Too Many" (03/Jan/1964) - cast: Marion Brown
- "Lonely Place" (16/Nov/1964) - cast: Stella
Other works of note...
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- The Little Foxes (1941)
- Pursued (1947)
- Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
- The Men (1950)
- Enchantment (1948)
Documentaries
She has appeared in the following Hitchcockian documentaries...
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