Tracy Wright

Born: 1959-12-07

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. 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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When Night Is Falling

as Tory
Released: 1995-02-01

A prudish woman working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university finds...

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Blindness

as Thief's Wife
Released: 2008-05-14

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band...

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Superstar

as Sister Anne
Released: 1999-10-08

Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be...

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Me and You and Everyone We Know

as Nancy Herrington
Released: 2005-06-17

Single dad Richard meets Christine, a starving artist who moonlights as a cabbie. They awkwardly...

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Last Night

as Donna
Released: 1998-10-23

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the...

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Leslie, My Name Is Evil

as Leslie's Mom
Released: 2009-09-14

A young jury member becomes infatuated with Leslie, a troubled teenager and former homecoming...

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The Five Senses

as Alex
Released: 1999-05-18

Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a...

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All Hat

as Elizabeth Dokes
Released: 2007-09-11

An ex-con returns to his rural Ontario roots and outwits a corrupt and wealthy thoroughbred...

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Childstar

as Tabitha
Released: 2004-09-10

An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his...

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Picture Claire

as Detective Sweeney
Released: 2001-09-10

Quebec native Claire Beaucage has a one-night stand with a photographer of some renown. Despite...

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Joe's So Mean to Josephine

as Dispatcher
Released: 1997-01-18

Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When...

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Highway 61

as Margo
Released: 1991-09-05

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie...

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You Are Here

as The Archivist
Released: 2011-03-05

Several story threads about consciousness and perception intertwine in this film by video...

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Dog Park

as Dog Psychologist's Wife
Released: 1998-09-14

Sex comedy takes a look at contemporary dating mores and hypothesizes that the new dating...

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Trigger

as Vic
Released: 2010-09-12

Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in...

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Blue

as uncredited
Released: 1992-01-10

New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the...

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Bubbles Galore

as Vivian Klitorsky
Released: 1996-08-25

A bisexual female pornographer searches for sexual and economic independence in a male-dominated...

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Monkey Warfare

as Linda
Released: 2006-09-10

Two ex-revolutionaries living underground have their lives turned upside down by a sexy young...

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Wasaga

as Judy
Released: 1994-09-12

Rebecca, a video artist from Toronto who is working on a project in Wasaga Beach takes driving...

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This Movie Is Broken

as Box Office Woman
Released: 2010-06-25

Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school...

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Sarabande

as Emily
Released: 1997-10-24

The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent...

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My Summer Vacation

as Marvette
Released: 1996-06-23

Joe is a twenty-something gay man who decides to film people he meets on the street with a...

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Apartment Hunting

as Steve
Released: 2000-01-01

A married journalist unexpectedly dials up true love over the telephone while doing research for...

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Elimination Dance

as Female Dance Partner
Released: 1998-09-12

Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.

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Book Of Knives

as Iris Campbell
Released:

Book of Knives is based on seven psychiatric case histories dating from 1905 up to the present....

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The Kids in the Hall

as Sandra
First aired: 1989-10-24

The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians...

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Twitch City

as Dizelle
First aired: 1998-01-19

Twitch City is a surreal sitcom set in the Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood of Kensington Market,...

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