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Jenny Wright

Jenny Wright

Highest Rated: 85% The Chocolate War (1988)

Lowest Rated: 37% The Lawnmower Man (1992)

Birthday: Mar 23, 1962

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Lissome blonde actor who began in supporting roles as ingenues and later played several earnest leading lady parts in mostly routine films. Wright studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and with teachers including Stella Adler. A New York native, she lived for a time with her family upstate but returned to Manhattan as a teen and found work in off-Broadway theater. Wright made her film debut in "The World According to Garp" (1982) and for a time seemed posed to enter the "brat pack" gang of young actors reaching for stardom in the mid-1980s. She played the modest-sized role of Rob Lowe's wife in one of that group's signature films, "St. Elmo's Fire" (1985), but Wright's subsequent credits have received variable exposure.

Highest rated movies

85% The Chocolate War
83% Near Dark
73% Pink Floyd - The Wall
71% A Shock to the System
71% The World According to Garp
67% I, Madman
37% The Lawnmower Man

Photos

THE WILD LIFE, Clockwise from top left: Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson, Christopher Penn, Jenny Wright, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, 1984, (c) Universal Pictures OUT OF BOUNDS, Anthony Michael Hall, Jenny Wright, 1986, (c) Columbia OUT OF BOUNDS, Jenny Wright, Anthony Michael Hall, 1986, (c) Columbia PINK FLOYD THE WALL, Jenny Wright, Bob Geldof, 1982, (c) MGM OUT OF BOUNDS, Jeff Kober, Jenny Wright, 1986, (c) Columbia VALENTINO RETURNS, Jenny Wright, Barry Tubb, 1989, (c)Skouras Pictures OUT OF BOUNDS, Jenny Wright, 1986, (c) Columbia OUT OF BOUNDS, Jenny Wright, Anthony Michael Hall, 1986, (c)Columbia Pictures OUT OF BOUNDS, Jenny Wright, 1986, (c) Columbia OUT OF BOUNDS, Anthony Michael Hall, Jenny Wright, 1986, (c)Columbia Pictures OUT OF BOUNDS, Anthony Michael Hall, Jenny Wright, 1986, (c)Columbia Pictures OUT OF BOUNDS, Jenny Wright, 1986, (c)Columbia Pictures THE WILD LIFE, Rick Moranis, Jenny Wright, 1984, (c) Universal Pictures OUT OF BOUNDS, Anthony Michael Hall, Jenny Wright, 1986, (c)Columbia Pictures VALENTINO RETURNS, Barry Tubb, Jenny Wright, 1989, (c)Skouras OUT OF BOUNDS, Jenny Wright, Anthony Michael Hall, 1986, (c)Columbia Pictures NEAR DARK, Jenny Wright, 1987, (c)De Laurentiis Entertainment Group NEAR DARK, Jenny Wright, 1987 OUT OF BOUNDS, Anthony Michael Hall, Jenny Wright, 1986, (c)Columbia Pictures NEAR DARK, Jenny Wright, 1987
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
37% 31% The Lawnmower Man Marnie Burke (Character) - 1992
71% 61% A Shock to the System Melanie O'Conner (Character) $2.0M 1990
No Score Yet 44% Twister Stephanie (Character) - 1989
67% 40% I, Madman Virginia (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gideon Oliver: Sleep Well, Professor Oliver Coombs (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet 43% Valentino Returns Sylvia Fuller (Character) $7.6K 1989
85% 67% The Chocolate War Lisa (Character) - 1988
83% 74% Near Dark Mae (Character) $2.5M 1987
No Score Yet 45% Out of Bounds Dizz / Darlene (Character) $4.2M 1986
No Score Yet 41% The Wild Life Eileen (Character) - 1984
73% 89% Pink Floyd - The Wall American Groupie (Character) - 1982
71% 78% The World According to Garp Cushie - Steering School (Character) - 1982

TV

Credit
83% 93% NYPD Blue Trish Taylor (Guest Star) 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Matlock Unknown (Guest Star) 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Danger Bay Unknown (Guest Star) 1987