Teresa Wright
Born: 1918-10-27 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 2005-03-06
Known For: Acting
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 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.
Filmography
2021
- I Am Alfred Hitchcock as Self (archive footage)
2000
1998
- Angel Passing as Wife
1997
- The Rainmaker as Colleen 'Miss Birdie' Birdsong
1992
- Picket Fences as Emily Ridgefield
1991
- Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star as Self (archive footage)
1990
- The Exorcist III as Penitent (uncredited)
- Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To as (archive footage)
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception as Helene Berman
1988
- The Good Mother as Grandmother Eleanor
1987
- The Fig Tree as Miranda's Grandmother
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Helen Appletree
1983
- Bill: On His Own as Mae Driscoll
1982
- Morning's at Seven as Cora Swanson
1980
- Somewhere in Time as Laura Roberts
- The Golden Honeymoon as Lucy Tate
1977
- The Love Boat as Sister Regina
- Flood! as Alice Cutler
- Roseland as May
1974
- The Elevator as Edith Reynolds
1973
- Hawkins as Jenny Burke
1972
- Crawlspace as Alice Graves
1971
- Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law as Ruthanne Cameron
1969
- The Happy Ending as Mrs. Spencer
- Hail, Hero! as Santha Dixon
1968
1967
- The Desperate Hours as Eleanor Hilliard
1966
- CBS Playhouse as Virgie
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Marion Brown
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Big Deal in Laredo as Mary
1961
- The Defenders as Anne Clark
1959
- Bonanza as Katherine Saunders
- Adventures in Paradise as Emilie Forbes
1958
- The Restless Years as Elizabeth Grant
1957
- Escapade in Japan as Mary Saunders
- The Edge of Innocence as Carol Morton
- The Miracle Worker as Annie Sullivan
1956
- The Search for Bridey Murphy as Ruth Simmons
- No. 5 Checked Out as Mary
- Once to Every Woman as Carol
1955
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Doris Walker
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Mary
- The Miracle on 34th Street as Doris Walker
1954
- Climax! as Eilene Wade
- Studio 57
- Track of the Cat as Grace Bridges
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Letter to Loretta as Schoolteacher
- General Electric Theater as Mary Todd Lincoln
- The Actress as Annie Jones
- Count the Hours! as Ellen Braden
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Sister Mary Winifred
- The Ford Television Theatre as Alison Stevens
- Something to Live For as Edna Miller
- The Steel Trap as Laurie Osborne
- California Conquest as Julie Lawrence
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Judith Anderson
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Terry Hagen
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents
- Lux Video Theatre as Emily
- Your Show of Shows
- The Men as Ellen
- The Capture as Ellen Tevlin Vanner
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Enchantment as Lark Ingoldsby
1947
- Pursued as Thor
- The Trouble with Women as Kate Farrell
1946
- The Best Years of Our Lives as Peggy Stephenson
- The Imperfect Lady as Millicent Hopkins
1944
- Casanova Brown as Isabel Drury
1943
- Shadow of a Doubt as Young Charlie
1942
- Mrs. Miniver as Carol Beldon
- The Pride of the Yankees as Eleanor Twitchell
1941
- The Little Foxes as Alexandra "Zan" Giddens