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Tracy Wright

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Tracy Wright

Born December 7, 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDied June 22, 201035 films

Tracy Wright was born on December 7, 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 1989, she was a founding member of the Toronto's Augusta Company, along with her future husband Don McKellar and Daniel Brooks, and worked regularly throughout her theatre career with Brooks, McKellar, and Canadian writers and directors including Nadia Ross, Jacob Wren, Daniel MacIvor, Hillar Liitoja, Paul Bettis and Sky Gilbert.

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In film, she worked closely with McKellar and Bruce McDonald, whose Highway 61 (1991) was one of her first major roles, and This Movie Is Broken and Trigger (2010) were her last. She was also known for her roles in films such as Monkey Warfare, Last Night, When Night Is Falling, Superstar and Me and You and Everyone We Know. Highlights of her television appearances include The Kids in the Hall and Twitch City.

Wright also acted in Bob Wiseman's video "We Got Time" in 1989, along with Leslie Spit Treeo and Don McKellar, and she is the subject of a song by Wiseman, entitled "[email protected]" from his 2013 release Giulietta Masina at the Oscars Crying.

She was married to McKellar, her long-term partner, in January 2010.

Wright died on June 22, 2010, aged 50, from pancreatic cancer.

She wa known for Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), Trigger (2010) and Blindness (2008). She was married to Don McKellar. She died on June 22, 2010 in Toronto.

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Me and You and Everyone We Know posterFirst watchMe and You and Everyone We Know20057.0as Nancy HerringtonSingle dad Richard meets Christine, a starving artist who moonlights as a cabbie. They awkwardly attempt to start a romance, but Richard’s divorce has left him emotionally damaged.View film

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Filmography

35 films as actor
  1. TBAI Am The Camera, DyingMarvette
  2. TBAClean Rite CowboyEleanor
  3. 2011You Are HereThe Archivist
  4. 2010TriggerVic
  5. 2010This Movie Is BrokenBox Office Woman
  6. 2009Leslie, My Name Is EvilLeslie's Mom
  7. 2008Green DoorRhonda
  8. 2008BlindnessThief's Wife
  9. 2007All HatElizabeth Dokes
  10. 2006Monkey WarfareLinda
  11. 2005Me and You and Everyone We KnowNancy Herrington
  12. 2004ChildstarTabitha
  13. 2001Good StuffMom
  14. 2001Picture ClaireDetective Sweeney
  15. 2000Apartment HuntingSteve
  16. 1999SuperstarSister Anne
  17. 1999The Five SensesAlex
  18. 1998Last NightDonna
  19. 1998Dog ParkDog Psychologist's Wife
  20. 1998Elimination DanceFemale Dance Partner
  21. 1998The Fires of JoannaJoanna McVeigh
  22. 1997SarabandeEmily
  23. 1997Permission
  24. 1997Joe's So Mean to JosephineDispatcher
  25. 1996Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore StorySpot
  26. 1996Bubbles GaloreVivian Klitorsky
  27. 1996My Summer VacationMarvette
  28. 1995EclipseSouvenir Shop Clerk
  29. 1995When Night Is FallingTory
  30. 1995Book Of KnivesIris Campbell
  31. 1994My Addiction
  32. 1994WasagaJudy
  33. 1994Wake Up, Jerk Off
  34. 1992Blue
  35. 1991Highway 61Margo