ROBIN GAYLE WRIGHT, GREAT TV SERIES & CINEMA ROLES

Today, The Grandma has been watching one of her favourite TV series, House of Cards, interpreted by Robin Wright, the American actress and director, who was born on a day like today in 1966.

Robin Gayle Wright (born April 8, 1966) is an American actress and director.

She has won a Golden Globe Award and a Satellite Award, and has received eleven Emmy Award nominations for her work in television.

Wright first gained attention for her role in the NBC Daytime soap opera Santa Barbara as Kelly Capwell from 1984 to 1988. She then made the transition to film, starring in the romantic comedy fantasy adventure film The Princess Bride (1987). This role led her to further success in the film industry, with starring roles in films such as Forrest Gump (1994), the romantic drama Message in a Bottle (1999), the superhero drama-thriller Unbreakable (2000), the historical drama The Conspirator (2010), the biographical sports drama Moneyball (2011), the mystery thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), the biographical drama Everest (2015), the superhero film Wonder Woman (2017), and the neo-noir science fiction film Blade Runner 2049 (2017).

Wright starred as Claire Underwood in the Netflix political drama streaming television series House of Cards, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2013, becoming the first actress to win a Golden Globe for a streaming television series.

Wright has received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations in the Outstanding Lead Actress category for House of Cards (one for each season), and two nominations in the Outstanding Drama Series category in 2016 and 2017 as a producer on the show.

Wright is one of the highest paid actresses in the United States, earning US$420,000 per episode for her role in House of Cards in 2016.

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Wright was born April 8, 1966, in Dallas to Gayle Wright, a cosmetics saleswoman for Mary Kay, and Fred Wright, a pharmaceutical company employee. She grew up in Southern California, attending La Jolla High School in La Jolla and Taft High School in Los Angeles.

Wright is the honorary spokesperson for the Dallas, Texas-based non-profit The Gordie Foundation.

In 2014, she co-partnered with two California-based companies; Pour Les Femmes and The SunnyLion. The SunnyLion donates a portion of its profits to the Raise Hope For Congo movement.

Wright is an activist for human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She is the narrator and executive producer of the documentary When Elephants Fight which highlights how multinational mining corporations and politicians in the Democratic Republic of Congo threaten human rights, and perpetuate conflict in the region.

She also is a supporter of Stand With Congo, the human rights campaign behind the film.

In 2016, Wright spoke publicly in support of the campaign at a film screening at the TriBeCa Film Institute in New York City, in media interviews, with journalists, and across her social media accounts.

More information: The Guardian

 It's what still excites me most about acting:
letting your imagination go places it's never been before.
There's nothing better than that.

Robin Wright