Jenny Wright

Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
03/23/1962
Birthplace:
New York, New York
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biography
Lissome blonde actor who began in supporting roles as ingenues and later played several earnest leading lady parts in mostly routine films. Wright studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and with teachers including Stella Adler. A New York native, she lived for a time with her family upstate but returned to Manhattan as a teen and found work in off-Broadway theater. Wright made her film debut in "The World According to Garp" (1982) and for a time seemed posed to enter the "brat pack" gang of young actors reaching for stardom in the mid-1980s. She played the modest-sized role of Continued
Credits
Stephanie
1988
American Groupie
1982
Melanie O'Connor
Sylvia Fuller
Eileen
Marnie Burke
Mae
Virginia
milestones
Year
Milestone
 
Raised in Manhattan for a time, but family later moved to upstate New York
1980 
Acted in the off-Broadway play, The Album"
1982 
Made feature film debut, "The World According to Garp"
1982 
TV-movie debut, "The Executioner's Song"
1983 
Succeeded Madeline Potter in a supporting role in the short-lived Broadway production of the David Hare play, "Plenty"
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