Tracy Wright
Date of birth: 1959-12-07
Place of birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Tracy Lauren Wright
Biography
Tracy Wright was born on December 7, 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 1989, she was a founding member of the Toronto's Augusta Company, along with her future husband Don McKellar and Daniel Brooks, and worked regularly throughout her theatre career with Brooks, McKellar, and Canadian writers and directors including Nadia Ross, Jacob Wren, Daniel MacIvor, Hillar Liitoja, Paul Bettis and Sky Gilbert. In film, she worked closely with McKellar and Bruce McDonald, whose Highway 61 (1991) was one of her first major roles, and This Movie Is Broken and Trigger (2010) were her last. She was also known for her roles in films such as Monkey Warfare, Last Night, When Night Is Falling, Superstar and Me and You and Everyone We Know. Highlights of her television appearances include The Kids in the Hall and Twitch City. Wright also acted in Bob Wiseman's video "We Got Time" in 1989, along with Leslie Spit Treeo and Don McKellar, and she is the subject of a song by Wiseman, entitled "Mothface@yahoo.ca" from his 2013 release Giulietta Masina at the Oscars Crying. She was married to McKellar, her long-term partner, in January 2010. Wright died on June 22, 2010, aged 50, from pancreatic cancer. She wa known for Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), Trigger (2010) and Blindness (2008). She was married to Don McKellar. She died on June 22, 2010 in Toronto.
Movie Credits
The Fires of Joanna
1998-01-01
Set in Depression-era Eastern Ontario, "The Fires of Joanna" tells the story of a woman struggling t
Last Night
1998-10-23
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke o
Trigger
2010-09-12
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the co
Good Stuff
2001-10-01
Dark Comedy of an alienated, gothic private school girl coming to terms with a terminal illness.
You Are Here
2011-03-05
Several story threads about consciousness and perception intertwine in this film by video installati
Monkey Warfare
2006-09-10
Two ex-revolutionaries living underground have their lives turned upside down by a sexy young radica
Dog Park
1998-09-14
A young man, whose girlfriend has just left him and taken their dog, falls for another woman who is
Bubbles Galore
1996-08-25
A bisexual female pornographer searches for sexual and economic independence in a male-dominated ind
Joe's So Mean to Josephine
1997-01-18
Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she fi
Highway 61
1991-09-05
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who ne
Childstar
2004-09-10
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious s
Blindness
2008-05-14
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to
The Five Senses
1999-05-18
Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massa
Eclipse
1995-10-13
A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending tot
Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story
1996-10-06
Marlene Moore has spent most of her life in prison, and is considered so dangerous that the authorit
This Movie Is Broken
2010-06-25
Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in Fr
Sarabande
1997-10-24
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have
My Summer Vacation
1996-06-23
Joe is a twenty-something gay man who decides to film people he meets on the street with a camera gi
My Addiction
1994-09-12
Matt, although married, is completely in love with a hustler called Dick. One night Matt leaves his
Green Door
2008-09-07
All Hat
2007-09-11
An ex-con returns to his rural Ontario roots and outwits a corrupt and wealthy thoroughbred owner tr
Superstar
1999-10-08
Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kiss
Book Of Knives
Book of Knives is based on seven psychiatric case histories dating from 1905 up to the present. Thes
Blue
1992-01-10
New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the human
Elimination Dance
1998-09-12
Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.
Picture Claire
2001-09-10
Quebec native Claire Beaucage has a one-night stand with a photographer of some renown. Despite the
Wasaga
1994-09-12
Rebecca, a video artist from Toronto who is working on a project in Wasaga Beach takes driving lesso
Me and You and Everyone We Know
2005-06-17
Single dad Richard meets Christine, a starving artist who moonlights as a cabbie. They awkwardly att
Apartment Hunting
2000-01-01
A married journalist unexpectedly dials up true love over the telephone while doing research for a s
When Night Is Falling
1995-02-01
Camille is a professor at a Protestant college and is in a long-term relationship with Martin, a res
Wake Up, Jerk Off
1994-07-23
A brief glimpse into the life a single urban gay male.
Leslie, My Name Is Evil
2009-09-14
A young jury member becomes infatuated with Leslie, a troubled teenager and former homecoming prince
I Am The Camera, Dying
(a 1/2 hour short 16 mm black and white about a female heroin addict re-incarnated as a cute gay sai
Permission
1997-09-12
A boy's desire to play with a Barbie doll prompts a father to question both his son's masculinity an
Clean Rite Cowboy
Clean Rite Cowboy is a 2000 Canadian short drama film, directed by Michael Downing. The film stars J