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Teresa Wright
Known for: ActingTeresa 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 22
The Rainmaker
+9
as Colleen 'Miss Birdie' Birdsong 
Shadow of a Doubt
+3
as Charlie Newton 
Somewhere in Time
+11
as Laura Roberts 
The Best Years of Our Lives
+13
as Peggy Stephenson 
Mrs. Miniver
+9
as Carol Beldon 
The Pride of the Yankees
+13
as Eleanor Twitchell 
The Little Foxes
+10
as Alexandra "Zan" Giddens 
The Men
+4
as Ellen 
Track of the Cat
+5
as Grace Bridges 
The Actress
+2
as Annie Jones 
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
+5
as Self (archive footage) 
Casanova Brown
as Isabel Drury 
The Good Mother
+3
as Grandmother Eleanor 
Pursued
+2
as Thor 
Something to Live For
+1
as Edna Miller 
Enchantment
+7
as Lark Ingoldsby 
Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception
as Helene Berman 
The Capture
+18
as Ellen Tevlin Vanner 
The Miracle on 34th Street
+7
as Doris Walker 
The Happy Ending
+3
as Mrs. Spencer 
The Fig Tree
as Miranda's Grandmother 
California Conquest
+2
as Julie Lawrence