The Deer Hunter
1979
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Amy Wright is an American actress and former model. She has appeared in such films as The Deer Hunter, Breaking Away, The Accidental Tourist, Hard Promises, Crossing Delancey, and Miss Firecracker. She is the widow of actor Rip Torn.
Amy Wright. Actress: The Amityville Horror. One of those dazzling chameleon players who never received their due, Amy Wright is still woefully unrecognized despite a superb resumé of Southern-styled film credits since the late 70s.
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- April 15, 1950
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Amy Wright. Actress: The Amityville Horror. One of those dazzling chameleon players who never received their due, Amy Wright is still woefully unrecognized despite a superb resumé of Southern-styled film credits since the late 70s.
- April 15, 1950
- Wright First Met Torn When She Was 26 & He Was 45
- A Friend Says, ‘Amy Doesn’T Give A Damn What Other People Think of Her’
- Wright’s Father Was The Professor of Psychology at The University of Chicago
Wright told People Magazinein 1989 that she first met Rip Torn in 1976 when she was 26 and he was 45. She was playing Ophelia to his Hamlet in an off-Broadway production of the Shakespeare play. Later, she would play Torn’s mistress while his real-life wife, Geraldine Page, played his wife in the play, “The Stronger.” Wright says of that time, “Ger...
In her 1989 People Magazine feature,playwright Lanford Wilson said of Wright, in particular, a reference to her helping to raise Torn’s children from a previous marriage, “Amy doesn’t give a damn what other people think of her. I can’t imagine her conforming just because someone else thought that she should.” Wilson added that despite Wright’s low ...
People Magazine explainedin their 1989 feature that Wright was a native of Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. Her father, Benjamin, was the professor of psychology and statistics at the University of Chicago. The article describes her upbringing as unconventional where pillow fights were a common post-dinner activity. There was no television and few...
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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.
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Amy Wright is an American actress and former model. She has appeared in such films as The Deer Hunter, Breaking Away, The Accidental Tourist, Hard Promises, Crossing Delancey, and Miss Firecracker. She is the widow of actor Rip Torn.
This off-beat, gap-toothed blonde actress began her career in waifish, juvenile roles and later graduated to droll oddball character parts. Amy Wright was born and raised in the Midwest and worked as a schoolteacher before heading to NYC in the mid-1970s to pursue an acting career.
