As a quiet, gentle, sensitive ingenue, Teresa Wright made an immediate impact on Hollywood: she earned three Academy Award nominations for her first three film performances, one of which netted her the coveted Oscar. She held her own with Bette Davis in The Little Foxes (1941), played the devoted wife of baseball great Lou Gehrig in Pride of the Yankees (1942), and played Greer Garson's daughter-in-law in Mrs. Miniver the same year, winning the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award. Wright was top-billed in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943), playing a fresh-scrubbed teenager whose girlish admiration for charming uncle Joseph Cotten turns to terror when she discovers him to be a murderer. Wisely eschewing glamour-girl treatment and exotic roles (although that may not have been altogether of her own choosing), Wright played other wholesome young women, most notably in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).She matured into a fine character actress, although some of her later pictures were unworthy of her talent. She still works on stage and makes periodic forays into feature films and TV movies. She was married to writer Niven Busch and playwright Robert Anderson.
