Tracy Wright
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 10.502 |
Birthday | 1959-12-07 |
Place of Birth | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Also Known As | Tracy Lauren Wright, |
1998
Last Night
6.627/138
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
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Last Night
2010
Trigger
5.031/16
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
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Trigger
2011
You Are Here
6.1/8
Several story threads about consciousness and perception intertwine in this film by video installation artist Daniel Cockburn.
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You Are Here
2006
Monkey Warfare
4.8/9
Two ex-revolutionaries living underground have their lives turned upside down by a sexy young radical who goes from smashing SUVs to fighting gentrifi...
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Monkey Warfare
1996
Bubbles Galore
2/5
A bisexual female pornographer searches for sexual and economic independence in a male-dominated industry. But most of all, the girl just wants to hav...
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Bubbles Galore
1999
Superstar
5.315/278
Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kissed soulfully. She decides she can realize this dre...
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Superstar
1992
Blue
5.8/10
New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the human psyche.
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Blue
1998
Elimination Dance
7/1
Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.
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Elimination Dance
2001
Picture Claire
5.5/31
Quebec native Claire Beaucage has a one-night stand with a photographer of some renown. Despite the language barrier between them, he invites her to v...
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Picture Claire
1994
Wasaga
0/0
Rebecca, a video artist from Toronto who is working on a project in Wasaga Beach takes driving lessons from driving instructor Judy because of the tow...
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Wasaga
2005
Me and You and Everyone We Know
6.979/312
A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life.
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Me and You and Everyone We Know
2000
Apartment Hunting
8/1
A married journalist unexpectedly dials up true love over the telephone while doing research for a story.
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Apartment Hunting
1995
When Night Is Falling
6.239/71
A prudish woman working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university finds herself attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman who wo...
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When Night Is Falling
1994
Wake Up, Jerk Off
1/1
A brief glimpse into the life a single urban gay male.
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Wake Up, Jerk Off
2009
Leslie, My Name Is Evil
4.4/24
A young jury member becomes infatuated with Leslie, a troubled teenager and former homecoming princess, who became a follower of Charles Manson's cult...
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Leslie, My Name Is Evil
1998
Dog Park
5.5/19
Sex comedy takes a look at contemporary dating mores and hypothesizes that the new dating location may be the dog walk in the park. Follow one mild-ma...
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Dog Park
1997
Joe's So Mean to Josephine
3.7/3
Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she finally worms her way into his heart she realises it...
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Joe's So Mean to Josephine
1991
Highway 61
6.7/20
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corps...
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Highway 61
2004
Childstar
5.3/10
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.
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Childstar
2008
Blindness
6.5/1240
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of...
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Blindness
1999
The Five Senses
5.904/26
Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her da...
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The Five Senses
1995
Eclipse
4.3/6
A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.
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Eclipse
1996
My Summer Vacation
2/1
Joe is a twenty-something gay man who decides to film people he meets on the street with a camera given to him by his boyfriend.
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My Summer Vacation
1994
My Addiction
3/2
Matt, although married, is completely in love with a hustler called Dick. One night Matt leaves his wife and goes to Dick’s apartment where he waits f...
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My Addiction
1996
Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story
3.5/2
Marlene Moore has spent most of her life in prison, and is considered so dangerous that the authorities want her locked up indefinitely — though she h...
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Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story
1997
Sarabande
6.5/2
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels...
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Sarabande
2010
This Movie Is Broken
3.7/12
Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a...
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This Movie Is Broken
2008
Green Door
0/0
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Green Door
2007
All Hat
3.4/10
An ex-con returns to his rural Ontario roots and outwits a corrupt and wealthy thoroughbred owner trying to take over a slew of local farms. Ray Dokes...
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All Hat
1998
The Fires of Joanna
0/0
Set in Depression-era Eastern Ontario, "The Fires of Joanna" tells the story of a woman struggling to endure a harsh and unforgiving life. Joanna McVe...
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The Fires of Joanna
2001
Good Stuff
0/0
Dark Comedy of an alienated, gothic private school girl coming to terms with a terminal illness.
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Good Stuff
Book Of Knives
0/0
Book of Knives is based on seven psychiatric case histories dating from 1905 up to the present. These stories are linked through the interrogation of...
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