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Acting

Teresa Wright

Career: Active from 1941 to 1998, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 32
top three billing

Average score: 65/100

Highest rated: The Little Foxes
90/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 45 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Teresa Wright Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.8, average 5.4
Violence
2.6, average 4.1
Scare
1.3, average 2.6
Adrenaline
3.5, average 4.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 5
Period Piece 4
Classic Hollywood 3
Psychological Thriller 3
Social Commentary 3
Class Conflict 2
Melodramatic 2
Family Secrets 2
Post-War Drama 2
Intrigue 2
Psychological Tension 2
Classic Screwball Comedy 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

70

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1990s

6 titles · average score 71

Angel Passing

as Wife

The Rainmaker

74

as Colleen 'Miss Birdie' Birdsong

Picket Fences

76

TV show · as Emily Ridgefield

Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception

65

as Helene Berman

The Exorcist III

59

as Penitent (uncredited)

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

79

as (archive footage)

1980s

7 titles · average score 66

The Good Mother

57

as Grandmother Eleanor

The Fig Tree

as Miranda's Grandmother

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Helen Appletree

Bill: On His Own

74

as Mae Driscoll

Morning's at Seven

as Cora Swanson

Somewhere in Time

60

as Laura Roberts

The Golden Honeymoon

as Lucy Tate

1970s

7 titles · average score 59

The Love Boat

53

TV show · as Sister Regina

Roseland

44

as May

Flood!

54

as Alice Cutler

The Elevator

59

as Edith Reynolds

Hawkins

76

TV show · as Jenny Burke

Crawlspace

61

as Alice Graves

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

67

TV show · as Ruthanne Cameron

1960s

8 titles · average score 62

Hail, Hero!

59

as Santha Dixon

The Happy Ending

62

as Mrs. Spencer

Lancer

63

TV show

The Desperate Hours

as Eleanor Hilliard

TV show · as Virgie

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

54

TV show · as Stella / Marion Brown

Big Deal in Laredo

as Mary

The Defenders

71

TV show · as Melissa Holmes / Anne Clark

1950s

32 titles · average score 65

The Restless Years

67

as Elizabeth Grant

Escapade in Japan

46

as Mary Saunders

No. 5 Checked Out

67

as Mary

The Miracle on 34th Street

59

as Doris Walker

Track of the Cat

57

as Grace Bridges

The Actress

60

as Annie Jones

Count the Hours!

47

as Ellen Braden

Something to Live For

66

as Edna Miller

The Steel Trap

67

as Laurie Osborne

California Conquest

50

as Julie Lawrence

The Men

74

as Ellen

The Capture

43

as Ellen Tevlin Vanner

1940s

10 titles · average score 80

Enchantment

70

as Lark Ingoldsby

Pursued

86

as Thor

The Trouble with Women

as Kate Farrell

The Best Years of Our Lives

89

as Peggy Stephenson

The Imperfect Lady

as Millicent Hopkins

Casanova Brown

56

as Isabel Drury

Shadow of a Doubt

88

as Charlie Newton

Mrs. Miniver

79

as Carol Beldon

The Pride of the Yankees

86

as Eleanor Twitchell

The Little Foxes

90

as Alexandra "Zan" Giddens