Teresa Wright had collected 1937/38 first stage experience at the Wharf Theater in Provincetown (Massachusetts). In 1938 she made her debut in New York and was then with Thornton Wilder's Our Town on tour. 1940 was in the play Life with Father success on Broadway. She was struck in the early 40s in a theater on Broadway, the movie producer Samuel Goldwyn. He took her to Hollywood soon. With their role in the movie The Little Foxes (The Little Foxes) - the daughter of Bette Davis - she had such a success that director William Wyler, they acted as "the most promising young actress in America."

For her role in the film Mrs. Miniver they already won Oscar as best supporting actress. The film was created by Hollywood declared as a propaganda film. He should urge the Americans entered the war, the need for the United States at the side of the United Kingdom against Nazi Germany.

Among the major Hollywood successes, for example, belonged to Wright's movies like In the Shadow of Doubt (directed by Alfred Hitchcock), What a dad (with Gary Cooper), or the men (with Marlon Brando). Since the late '50s she was seen primarily in television roles and plays too.

In 1997, she served as Miss Birdie in Francis Ford Coppola's film version of Grisham's novel The Rainmaker on the side of Matt Damon to be seen. Also on Broadway she was involved in several successful productions, including Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

Wright died on 6 March 2005 on the consequences of a heart attack.

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