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Amy Wright
Highest Rated: 100% Heartland (1979)
Lowest Rated: 11% Besotted (2001)
Birthday: Apr 15, 1950
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
This off-beat, gap-toothed blonde actress began her career in waifish, juvenile roles and later graduated to droll oddball character parts. Amy Wright was born and raised in the Midwest and worked as a schoolteacher before heading to NYC in the mid-1970s to pursue an acting career. Shortly after her arrival, Wright joined Rip Torn's Sanctuary Theater where she appeared in "Agnes and Joan." Roles in stock and regional theater followed before she garnered attention for her turn in a revival of Lanford Wilson's "The Rimers of Eldrich" in 1976. Two years later, she had the featured role of 13-year-old Shirley Tally in Wilson's acclaimed "Fifth of July," making her Broadway debut in the part in 1980. Wright continued to make stage appearances into the 90s, most notably as a devotee of psychologist Melanie Klein (played by Uta Hagen) in the Off-Broadway success "Mrs. Klein" (1995-96).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Deep End | Rebecca (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | The Next Step Live: The Movie | Unknown (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Messengers | Nan Parrish (Character) | - | 2004 |
| 60% | No Score Yet | Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control | Psychiatrist (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 11% | No Score Yet | Besotted | Unknown (Character) | $656 | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | Amy and Isabelle | Rosie (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 13% | 41% | The Scarlet Letter | Goody Gotwick (Character) | $10.4M | 1995 |
| 25% | 42% | Tom and Huck | Aunt Polly (Character) | $23.9M | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | A Robot in the Family | Kristina Shamir (Character) | - | 1994 |
| 25% | 48% | Josh and S.A.M. | Waitress (Character) | $1.5M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 79% | To Dance With the White Dog | Carrie (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 40% | 59% | Hard Promises | Shelley (Character) | $277.7K | 1991 |
| 50% | 67% | Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? | Lurlene (Character) | $1.2M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Love Hurts | Karen Weaver (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 75% | 52% | Miss Firecracker | Missy Mahoney (Character) | $646.9K | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Settle the Score | Becky (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | The Telephone |
Honey Boxe/ |
$54.8K | 1988 |
| 80% | 77% | Crossing Delancey | Ricki (Character) | $15.8M | 1988 |
| 82% | 60% | The Accidental Tourist | Rose Leary (Character) | $30.3M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Trapped in Silence | Dana Wendolowski (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Off Beat | Mary Ellen Gruenwald (Character) | $4.1M | 1986 |
| 67% | 76% | Inside Moves | Anne (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 66% | 78% | Stardust Memories | Shelley (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 88% | 74% | Wise Blood | Sabbath Lily (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 31% | 52% | The Amityville Horror | Jackie (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 100% | 85% | Heartland | Clara Jane (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 95% | 88% | Breaking Away | Nancy (Character) | - | 1979 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 71% | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| 93% | 75% | Undeclared | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |