Amy Wright
Date of birth: 1950-04-15
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Known for: Acting
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Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Amy Wright (born April 15, 1950) is an American actress. She has appeared in such films as The Deer Hunter, Breaking Away, The Amityville Horror, Heartland, Wise Blood, Stardust Memories, The Accidental Tourist, Hard Promises, Crossing Delancey and Miss Firecracker. Wright is married to actor Rip Torn and the couple have two daughters. Wright is a graduate of the University of Chicago Laboratory School and Beloit College. She also starred with Eric Schweig in The Scarlet Letter and Tom and Huck (both made in 1995). She starred in the original production of Breakfast with Les and Bess as Shelby. Wright currently is on the faculty of HB Studio in New York City. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Wright, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?
1990-05-04
Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed.
The Accidental Tourist
1988-12-23
After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon'
The Deer Hunter
1978-12-08
Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage,
Trapped In Silence
1986-05-11
A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one
Tom and Huck
1995-12-22
A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends
Inside Moves
1980-12-19
After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at
Heartland
1979-09-22
Widowed Elinor Randall and her young daughter Jerrine arrive in a barren stretch of Wyoming in 1910
Joe the King
1999-01-22
A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hand
My Amityville Diaries
2022-10-25
A Making-of documentary featuring interviews with screenwriter Sandor Stern, actor Meeno Peluce, act
To Dance with the White Dog
1993-12-05
When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and
Largo Desolato
1990-04-20
A fictionalized autobiographical play written by Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president Vaclav
Love Hurts
1990-04-19
The story of Paul Weaver and his strained relationships with women and his family.
The Namesake
2006-09-02
The American-born son of Indian immigrants strives to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers despite hi
Miss Firecracker
1989-04-28
Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beau
Stardust Memories
1980-09-26
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspiratio
Off Beat
1986-04-10
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his i
Breaking Away
1979-05-24
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm
Wise Blood
1979-10-24
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He
Settle the Score
1989-10-30
Katherine Whately, a tough, young Chicago cop, comes home to her small town to settle her teenage ra
Synecdoche, New York
2008-10-24
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a li
The Telephone
1988-01-22
Crazy out of work actress Vashti Blue spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl an
Robot in the Family
1994-03-02
A manic search for a valuable relic pits a father, son and trouble-prone robot against a nasty villa
In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas
1991-05-12
From the "In the Line of Duty" made-for-television movie series, Manhunt in the Dakotas is based on
A Blind Bargain
2025-09-21
Set in 1970, A BLIND BARGAIN reimagines the lost 1922 Lon Chaney silent film of the same name. A des
Hard Promises
1992-01-31
A man who doesn't like stable work environments has been away for too many years, and finds out his
The Amityville Horror
1979-07-27
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbab
Girlfriends
1978-08-11
A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and d
Please Give
2010-04-30
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who liv
Messengers
2004-06-27
Dr. Sarah Chapel returns to the small town of Brighton Mills when her father Dr. Robert Chapel unexp
Deceived
1991-09-27
The murder of a museum curator places art dealer Jack Saunders under suspicion for selling forged tr
Not a Pretty Picture
1976-01-03
Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.
Crossing Delancey
1988-08-17
Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that
The Good Shepherd
2006-12-11
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh
Final Verdict
1991-09-09
A trial lawyer risks losing his family and career when he defends a client who he knows to be guilty
Where the Rivers Flow North
1993-06-14
Sleeper with a top notch cast in the story of a lone wolf logger who fights developers, bankers and
The Scarlet Letter
1995-10-13
Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast af
