1. Teresa Wright won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carol Beldon in Mrs Miniver.
27 Facts About Teresa Wright
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Teresa Wright was nominated for the same award in 1941 for her debut work in The Little Foxes.
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Teresa Wright is known for her performances in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, and in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives.
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Teresa Wright 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.
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Muriel Teresa Wright was born on October 27,1918, in New York City, the daughter of Martha Espy and Arthur Hendricksen Wright, an insurance agent.
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Teresa Wright grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey, where she attended Columbia High School.
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Teresa Wright earned a scholarship to the Wharf Theater in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she was an apprentice for two summers.
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Teresa Wright took over the role when Scott left for Hollywood to film the on-screen version of the play.
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Miss Teresa Wright was seated at her dressing table, and looked for all the world like a little girl experimenting with her mother's cosmetics.
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In 1941, Teresa Wright was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut in The Little Foxes.
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Teresa Wright is the first of only nine actors who have been nominated in both categories in the same year.
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Teresa Wright remains the only performer to have received Academy Award nominations for her first three films.
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In 1943, Teresa Wright appeared in the acclaimed Universal film Shadow of a Doubt, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, playing a young woman who discovers her beloved uncle is a serial murderer.
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In 1946, Teresa Wright delivered another notable performance in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives, an award-winning film about the adjustments of servicemen returning home after World War II.
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In 1947, Teresa Wright appeared in the western Pursued opposite Robert Mitchum.
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In December 1948, after rebelling against the studio system that brought her fame, Teresa Wright had a public falling out with Samuel Goldwyn, which resulted in the cancellation of Teresa Wright's contract with his studio.
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Toward the end of the decade, Teresa Wright began to work more frequently in television and theatre.
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Teresa Wright received Emmy Award nominations for her performances in the Playhouse 90 original television version of The Miracle Worker and in the Breck Sunday Showcase feature The Margaret Bourke-White Story.
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On February 8,1960, Teresa Wright was inducted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame with two stars: one for motion pictures at 1658 Vine Street, and one for television at 6405 Hollywood Boulevard.
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In 1975, Teresa Wright appeared in the Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, and in 1980, appeared in the revival of Morning's at Seven, for which she won a Drama Desk Award as a member of the Outstanding Ensemble Performance.
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Teresa Wright appeared on The Love Boat S6 E11 "A Christmas Presence" as Sister Regina, who foils a con man's scheme to smuggle stolen gold molded as a painted creche scene.
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Teresa Wright appeared in Murder, Teresa Wright Wrote in the episode "Mr Penroy's Vacation".
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Teresa Wright was married to writer Niven Busch from 1942 to 1952.
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Teresa Wright's daughter, Mary-Kelly, is an author of books for children and young adults.
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Teresa Wright has two grandchildren, one of whom, Jonah Smith, co-produced Darren Aronofsky's films Pi and Requiem for a Dream.
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Teresa Wright died on March 6,2005 after suffering a heart attack at age 86 in Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut.
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Teresa Wright donated her body to Yale School of Medicine before being buried at Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven.