Teresa Wright
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 Playhouse 90 original television version of The Miracle Worker (1957), in the Breck Sunday Showcase feature The Margaret Bourke-White Story, and in the CBS drama series Dolphin Cove (1989). She earned the acclaim of top film directors, including William Wyler, who called her the most promising actress he had directed, and Alfred Hitchcock, who admired her thorough preparation and quiet professionalism.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 19.033 |
Birthday | 1918-10-27 |
Place of Birth | Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Muriel Teresa Wright, Тереза Райт, Τερέζα Ράιτ, |
1946
The Best Years of Our Lives
7.781/636
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrive...
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The Best Years of Our Lives
1950
The Men
6.986/73
Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition,...
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The Men
1943
Shadow of a Doubt
7.515/1006
Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderf...
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Shadow of a Doubt
1952
The Steel Trap
6.4/21
Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.
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The Steel Trap
1997
The Rainmaker
7.025/1261
When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in...
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The Rainmaker
1948
Enchantment
6.7/9
Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last da...
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Enchantment
1953
Count the Hours!
5.5/10
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.
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Count the Hours!
1947
Pursued
6.5/79
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely...
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Pursued
1942
Mrs. Miniver
7.008/251
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charm...
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Mrs. Miniver
1941
The Little Foxes
7.479/166
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
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The Little Foxes
1950
The Capture
5.8/15
A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.
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The Capture
1980
Somewhere in Time
7.507/560
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to fi...
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Somewhere in Time
1944
Casanova Brown
6.3/21
Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, C...
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Casanova Brown
1942
The Pride of the Yankees
7.366/119
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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The Pride of the Yankees
1969
The Happy Ending
6/23
The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate reality...
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The Happy Ending
1954
Track of the Cat
5.6/36
A family saga: In a stunning mountain valley ranch setting near Aspen, complex and dangerous family dynamics play out against the backdrop of the firs...
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Track of the Cat
1972
Crawlspace
5.8/10
A childless middle-age couple adopt a troubled youth they find living in their crawlspace and attempt to get him to rejoin society with tragic results...
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Crawlspace
1953
The Actress
6.2/15
The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.
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The Actress
1952
Something to Live For
6.8/8
Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actr...
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Something to Live For
1958
The Restless Years
0/0
A pretty, sheltered teenager falls for a boy from the wrong side of town.
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The Restless Years
1988
The Good Mother
5.8/27
After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influ...
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The Good Mother
1955
The Miracle on 34th Street
5.3/9
One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this i...
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The Miracle on 34th Street
1952
California Conquest
4.5/6
The period is the 1840s and California is part of Mexico. Many of the citizens wish to become part of the United States. Other countries are also inte...
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California Conquest
1957
Escapade in Japan
5.5/12
A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fisherman's son, with the two setting off...
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Escapade in Japan
1956
The Search for Bridey Murphy
6.3/5
After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early lif...
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The Search for Bridey Murphy
1977
Roseland
5.2/4
"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the r...
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Roseland
1946
The Imperfect Lady
0/0
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
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The Imperfect Lady
2000
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
6.5/2
A short documentary about the Making Of Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943).
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Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
1974
The Elevator
6/5
A claustrophobic armed robber, fleeing from his latest job, finds himself trapped with a group of people between floors in a high-rise building's elev...
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The Elevator
1947
The Trouble with Women
0/0
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wif...
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The Trouble with Women
1998
Angel Passing
0/0
An aging concert pianist in a nursing home, suffering from Alzheimers, revisits his past. When he comes back to his home, now occupied by an artist, a...
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Angel Passing
1991
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
7/1
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.
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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1969
Hail, Hero!
6/1
Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's inten...
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Hail, Hero!
1977
Flood!
4.9/13
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.
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Flood!
1990
Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception
6.85/10
Perry Mason ventures to Paris to defend a U.S. Marine Corps Captain accused of murdering a man suspected of being a Nazi SS Officer.
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception
1956
No. 5 Checked Out
5/1
A young deaf women confronts desperate crooks who are using one of her remote resort cabins for a hideout.
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No. 5 Checked Out
1990
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
9/3
This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed comm...
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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1957
The Edge of Innocence
0/0
An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her brother's disappearance and murder.
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The Edge of Innocence
1956
Once to Every Woman
0/0
At a particularly vulnerable time in her life, Carol is wooed by charming David. They fall in love, but Carol then learns that David is married. He sa...
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Once to Every Woman
1967
The Desperate Hours
4/2
The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed, tormen...
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The Desperate Hours
1990
The Exorcist III
6.222/741
On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's world is once again shattered when...
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The Exorcist III
1983
Bill: On His Own
6.667/3
Bill Sackter struggles to cope after his best friend and guardian, Barry Morrow and his wife Beverly move away. Bill moves into a group home run by Ma...
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Bill: On His Own
1980
The Golden Honeymoon
0/0
Charley Tate is an old windbag, often a braggart, but somehow always lovable. Married over fifty years to his ever-patient wife Lucy, the two of them...
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The Golden Honeymoon
1982
Morning's at Seven
0/0
In a small Midwestern town in the 1920s, four sisters' lives are turned upside down when one sister's son brings his fiancée home to meet his eccentri...
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Morning's at Seven
1962
Big Deal in Laredo
0/0
A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers.
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Big Deal in Laredo
2021
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
6.9/17
Interviews and archival footage weave together to tell the story of the Master of Suspense, one of the most influential and studied filmmakers in the...
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