No other actor has ever duplicated her feat of receiving an Oscar nomination for each of her first three films. The following year, she was nominated again, this time for Best Actress for The Pride of the Yankees, in which she played opposite Gary Cooper as the wife of Lou Gehrig that same year, she won Best Supporting Actress as the daughter-in-law of Greer Garson's character in Mrs. Wright was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her screen debut in The Little Foxes (1941). She took over the role when Martha Scott went to Hollywood to make the film version of the play. Following her high school graduation in 1938, she returned to New York and was hired to understudy the role of Emily (played by Dorothy McGuire and later Martha Scott) in Thornton Wilder's Our Town. During her years at Columbia High School, she became seriously interested in acting and spent her summers working in Provincetown theater productions. Born on Octoactress Teresa Wright was born Muriel Teresa Wright in Harlem, New York City, the daughter of Martha (née Espy) and Arthur Wright, who was an insurance agent.
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