Amy Wright
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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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 8.366 |
| Birthday | 1950-04-15 |
| Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Also Known As |
1990
Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?
5.2/8
Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed.
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Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?
1988
The Accidental Tourist
6.205/222
After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate,...
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The Accidental Tourist
1978
The Deer Hunter
8.013/3706
A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they im...
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The Deer Hunter
1995
Tom and Huck
5.298/181
A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and n...
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Tom and Huck
1980
Inside Moves
6.404/26
After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. Wh...
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Inside Moves
1979
Heartland
6.4/17
Widowed Elinor Randall and her young daughter Jerrine arrive in a barren stretch of Wyoming in 1910 after Elinor's application for work as a housekeep...
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Heartland
1999
Joe the King
6.1/38
A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing se...
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Joe the King
1993
To Dance with the White Dog
7.167/9
When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant.
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To Dance with the White Dog
1990
Largo Desolato
0/0
A fictionalized autobiographical play written by Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel in 1984 upon his release from a four-and-one...
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Largo Desolato
1990
Love Hurts
3.917/6
The story of Paul Weaver and his strained relationships with women and his family.
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Love Hurts
1989
Miss Firecracker
5.563/24
Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin had won years before....
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Miss Firecracker
1980
Stardust Memories
6.99/411
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
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Stardust Memories
1979
Breaking Away
7.11/250
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athlet...
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Breaking Away
1979
Wise Blood
6.245/92
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become...
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Wise Blood
1989
Settle the Score
4.5/2
Katherine Whately, a tough, young Chicago cop, comes home to her small town to settle her teenage rape. She is welcomed by her brother but shunned by...
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Settle the Score
2008
Synecdoche, New York
7.6/1372
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as...
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Synecdoche, New York
1988
The Telephone
4.5/24
Crazy out of work actress Vashti Blue spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve a...
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The Telephone
1995
The Scarlet Letter
6/442
Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend....
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The Scarlet Letter
1994
Robot in the Family
1.8/6
A manic search for a valuable relic pits a father, son and trouble-prone robot against a nasty villain.
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Robot in the Family
1991
In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas
6/6
From the "In the Line of Duty" made-for-television movie series, Manhunt in the Dakotas is based on the true story of cop-killer/white supremacist Gor...
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In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas
1986
Off Beat
4.778/18
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance perform...
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Off Beat
1992
Hard Promises
5.1/8
A man who doesn't like stable work environments has been away for too many years, and finds out his wife has divorced him and is planning to remarry....
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Hard Promises
1979
The Amityville Horror
6.285/875
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy...
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The Amityville Horror
1978
Girlfriends
6.61/68
A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get...
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Girlfriends
2010
Please Give
6.1/142
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
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Please Give
2004
Messengers
5.3/3
Dr. Sarah Chapel returns to the small town of Brighton Mills when her father Dr. Robert Chapel unexpectedly dies. His clients and friends miss him, an...
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Messengers
1991
Deceived
5.683/104
The murder of a museum curator places art dealer Jack Saunders under suspicion for selling forged treasures to museums. When Jack suddenly dies in a c...
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Deceived
1976
Not a Pretty Picture
8.5/1
Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.
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Not a Pretty Picture
1988
Crossing Delancey
5.6/43
Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While h...
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Crossing Delancey
2006
The Good Shepherd
6.336/1112
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young...
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The Good Shepherd
1991
Final Verdict
0/0
A trial lawyer risks losing his family and career when he defends a client who he knows to be guilty as charged.
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Final Verdict
1986
Trapped In Silence
6.8/5
A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.
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Trapped In Silence
2022
My Amityville Diaries
0/0
A Making-of documentary featuring interviews with screenwriter Sandor Stern, actor Meeno Peluce, actor Don Stroud, actor Marc Vahanian and actress Amy...
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My Amityville Diaries
2006
The Namesake
6.8/159
After moving from Calcutta to New York, members of the Ganguli family maintain a delicate balancing act between honoring the traditions of their nativ...
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