Teresa Wright
Highest Rated: 100% Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Lowest Rated: 33% The Happy Ending (1969)
Birthday: Oct 27, 1918
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Sweet and sensitive Teresa Wright made her Broadway debut as an understudy in Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" and, after touring in that play, attracted the attention of Samuel Goldwyn while playing the ingenue in the original Broadway production of "Life with Father." She made a sensational transition to screen acting, earning a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination for her film debut as the seemingly fragile Southern belle Alexandra Giddens who more than holds her own with her scheming mother Regina (Bette Davis) in William Wyler's "The Little Foxes" (1941), based on the Lillian Hellman play. Wright avoided the sophomore slump with Oscar nominations for her next two movies, winning as Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Greer Garson's daughter-in-law in Wyler's "Mrs. Miniver" while falling short in the Best Actress category as the wife of Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper) in "Pride of the Yankees" (both 1942). Despite her formidable talent, she was just a little too plain to really flourish as a Hollywood starlet, though she beautifully captured the small-town adolescent who gradually comes to discover her beloved Uncle Charlie is a murderer in Alfred Hitchcock's "A Shadow of a Doubt" (1943) and reteamed with Wyler as the daughter of a returning veteran in the Oscar-winning "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946), her radiant smile lighting up the final scene with the seeming promise of good times ahead with Dana Andrews.
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Teresa Wright
Filmography
Movies
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81% |
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John Grisham's The Rainmaker | Miss Birdie (Character) | $45.9M | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lethal Innocence | Myra (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception | Helene Berman (Character) | - | 1990 |
54% |
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The Good Mother | Grandmother (Character) | $4.6M | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
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Bill: On His Own | Mae Driscoll (Character) | - | 1983 |
52% |
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Somewhere in Time | Laura Roberts (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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Roseland | May (The Waltz) (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet |
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Flood! | Alice Cutler (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Terror in the Night | Unknown (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Elevator | Edith Reynolds (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder on the 13th Floor | Unknown (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
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Crawlspace | Alice Graves (Character) | - | 1971 |
33% |
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The Happy Ending | Mrs. Spencer (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hail, Hero! | Santha Dixon (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Restless Years | Elizabeth Grant (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Meet Mr. Kringle | Doris Walker (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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Escapade in Japan | Mary Saunders (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Search for Bridey Murphy | Ruth Simmons (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
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Track of the Cat | Grace Bridges (Character) | - | 1954 |
60% |
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The Actress | Annie Jones (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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Count the Hours | Ellen Braden (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | California Conquest | Julie Lawrence (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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The Steel Trap | Laurie Osborne (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Something to Live For | Edna Miller (Character) | - | 1952 |
79% |
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The Men | Ellen (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet |
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The Capture | Ellen Tevlin Vanner (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet |
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Enchantment | Lark Ingoldsby (Character) | - | 1948 |
100% |
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Pursued | Thorley Callum (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Trouble With Women | Kate Farrell (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Imperfect Lady | Millicent Hopkins (Character) | - | 1947 |
97% |
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The Best Years of Our Lives | Peggy Stephenson (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet |
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Casanova Brown | Isabel Drury (Character) | - | 1944 |
100% |
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Shadow of a Doubt | Young Charlie Newton (Character) | - | 1943 |
94% |
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The Pride of the Yankees | Eleanor Gehrig (Character) | - | 1942 |
93% |
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Mrs. Miniver | Carol Beldon (Character) | - | 1942 |
100% |
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The Little Foxes | Alexandra Giddens (Character) | - | 1941 |
TV
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82% | 92% | Picket Fences | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Helen Appletree (Guest Star) | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Showcase 39 | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The 20th Century-Fox Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1954 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Four Star Playhouse | Unknown (Character) | 1955-1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Screen Directors Playhouse | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Alcoa Hour | Sylvia Hallock (Character) | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The United States Steel Hour | Margaret Swift (Character) | 1954-1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Star and the Story | Unknown (Character) | 1955 |