Who is Robin Wright?
Robin Wright is an American actress, best known for her roles in The Princess Bride, Forrest Gump, and House of Cards.
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Dallas, Texas, the United States of America
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Personal Life
Wright married Dane Witherspoon in 1986. They divorced in 1988. In 1989, she started dating actor Sean Penn. They got married in 1996 and divorced in 20010 after several breakups. In 2012, she started dating actor Ben Foster. In 2015, they broke up permanently. In 2017, Wright started dating Clement Giraudet and married him the next year. Wright has two kids.
Professional Life
Robin Wright started modeling at 14. When she was 18, she was cast as Kelly Capwell in Santa Barabara, a role that would earn her various Daytime Emmy Award nominations. She left the show in 1988.
In 1986, the actress got a role in feature films with Hollywood Vice Squad. The next year, she received a breakthrough with The Princess Bride.
In 1994, she played Jenny in Forrest Gump. This role was acclaimed and earned her several nominations for best-supporting actress.
In 1996, Wright earned the title role in Moll Flanders, as well as in She’s So Lovely, where she appeared alongside Sean Penn, her then-husband.
She was in Unbreakable in 2000 and The Singing Detective in 2003. In 2007, she played Queen Wealtheow in Beowulf.
In 2011, the actress appeared in The Girl with the Dragon Tatto opposite Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig. She played Erika Berger.
In 2017, the actress first played General Antiope in Wonder Woman. She would reprise the role in Justice League the same year, Wonder Woman 1984 in 2020, and would also appear in Zack Snyder’s Justice League in 2021 in the same role. In 2017 as well, Wright was in Blade Runner 2049.
After her role in Santa Barbara, Wright would steer away from television until 2005, when she appeared in the acclaimed series Empire Falls. In 2011, she was in Enlightened.
Since 2013, Wright has had a central role as Claire Underwood in the Netflix political drama House of Cards, opposite Kevin Spacey. This earned her a Golden Globe in 2014, the first actress appearing in a streaming series to receive this prize. She received various nominations, including five consecutive Emmy nominations, for the role. In 2017, after Kevin Spacey was fired, Wright took the lead and received significant praise for her performance.
Other cast members seen in The House of Cards include Kevin Spacey, Michael Kelly, Boris Mcgiver, Derek Cecil and Jayne Atkinson.
Wright also served as a director for two episodes of the Netflix crime drama Ozark.
Trivia
Her nephew is actor Charlie Wright.
The actress described her time in Santa Barbara as paid acting training.
She had to back out of two roles due to her pregnancies: the role of Maid Marian in Robin Hood: The Prince of Thieves and of Abby McDeere in The Firm.
Wright is well-known for taking intense and dramatic roles, such as Claire Underwood, which have earned her significant praise over the years.
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