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Teresa Wright
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American actress (1918–2005)
OverviewAI-generated
Teresa Wright (1918–2005) was an American figure whose professional career began in 1941. She is recognized within the Academy Award Best Supporting Actress collection and holds a place in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. Wright had two children.
Her published works include the *Secrets to Great Canned Salmon Dishes Cookbook*, *Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China*, *Hey~Oka*, *Popular Protest in China*, and *The One-Minute Counselor for Women*. Records indicate she has eight works listed, with five works counted in another database.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Secrets to Great Canned Salmon Dishes Cookbook
- Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China
- Hey~Oka
- Popular Protest in China
- The One-Minute Counselor for Women
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 20
- Total plays
- 59
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,263x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,770x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,855x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,691x
- Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
· 2013 · cited 10,901x
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Encyclopedic overview
Muriel Teresa Wright (October 27, 1918 – March 6, 2005) was an American actress. She won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carol Beldon in Mrs. Miniver. She was nominated for the same award in 1941 for her debut work in The Little Foxes. Also in 1942, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Pride of the Yankees, opposite Gary Cooper. She is also known for her performances in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Additionally, Wright received five Photoplay Awards, two National Board of Review Awards, and two Hollywood Walk of Fame Stars for her contributions to motion pictures and television.
Wright received three Emmy Award nominations for her performances in the original Playhouse 90 television version of The Miracle Worker (1957), in the NBC Sunday Showcase feature The Margaret Bourke-White Story (1959), and in the CBS drama series Dolphin Cove (1989). She earned the acclaim of top film directors, including William Wyler, who called her the most promising actress he had directed, and Alfred Hitchcock, who admired her thorough preparation and quiet professionalism.
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