Teresa Wright

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1918-10-27 (87 years old)

Deathday

2005-03-06

Place of Birth

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Teresa Wright

Biography

Teresa Wright (October 27, 1918 – March 6, 2005) was an American actress. Her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination came in 1941 for her debut work in The Little Foxes. She received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1942 for her performance in Mrs. Miniver. That same year, she received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for her performance in Pride of the Yankees opposite Gary Cooper. She is also known for her performances in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Wright received three Emmy Award nominations for her performances in the...

Acting

1946

The Best Years of Our Lives

as Peggy Stephenson

1950

The Men

as Ellen

1943

Shadow of a Doubt

as Young Charlie

1952

The Steel Trap

as Laurie Osborne

1997

The Rainmaker

as Colleen 'Miss Birdie' Birdsong

1948

Enchantment

as Lark Ingoldsby

1953

Count the Hours!

as Ellen Braden

1947

Pursued

as Thor

1942

Mrs. Miniver

as Carol Beldon

1941

The Little Foxes

as Alexandra "Zan" Giddens

1950

The Capture

as Ellen Tevlin Vanner

1980

Somewhere in Time

as Laura Roberts

1944

Casanova Brown

as Isabel Drury

1942

The Pride of the Yankees

as Eleanor Twitchell

1969

The Happy Ending

as Mrs. Spencer

1954

Track of the Cat

as Grace Bridges

1972

Crawlspace

as Alice Graves

1953

The Actress

as Annie Jones

1952

Something to Live For

as Edna Miller

1958

The Restless Years

as Elizabeth Grant

1988

The Good Mother

as Grandmother Eleanor

1955

1952

California Conquest

as Julie Lawrence

1957

Escapade in Japan

as Mary Saunders

1956

1977

Roseland

as May

1946

The Imperfect Lady

as Millicent Hopkins

1974

The Elevator

as Edith Reynolds

1947

The Trouble with Women

as Kate Farrell

1998

1991

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

as Self (archive footage)

1969

Hail, Hero!

as Santha Dixon

1977

Flood!

as Alice Cutler

1990

1957

The Edge of Innocence

as Carol Morton

1967

The Desperate Hours

as Eleanor Hilliard

1990

The Exorcist III

as Penitent (uncredited)

1983

Bill: On His Own

as Mae Driscoll

1980

1982

Morning's at Seven

as Cora Swanson

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