Robin Wright plays Erika Berger in the 2011 movie adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Career[]
She was listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1986" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 38. [1986]. Wright first became famous on television, playing Kelly Capwell on the soap opera Santa Barbara, which earned her three Daytime Emmy nominations. She shot to stardom after her roles as Buttercup in The Princess Bride and Jenny Curran in Forrest Gump, the latter role garnering her Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild nominations for Best Supporting Actress. Wright was offered the role of Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, but turned it down because she was pregnant. She had to back out of the role of Abby McDeere in The Firm (1993), with Tom Cruise, upon discovering that she was pregnant with her second child (son Hopper Penn).
In 1996, she married Sean Penn and changed her name to Robin Wright Penn. The same year she starred in the film adaptation of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders for which she received a Satellite Nomination for Best Actress in a Drama. She went on to co-star with her husband in the 1997 film She's So Lovely, for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress. One of her most recent successes was a supporting role in the TV movie Empire Falls as Grace Roby, mother of Ed Harris's character Miles Roby. Wright received her third Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for this role.
She was married to the actor Sean Penn.
Filmography[]
| Year | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1984–1988, 1992 | Santa Barbara | Kelly Capwell |
| 1986 | Hollywood Vice Squad | Lori Stanton |
| 1987 | The Princess Bride | Buttercup |
| 1990 | Denial | Sara/Loon |
| State of Grace | Kathleen Flannery | |
| 1992 | The Playboys | Tara Maguire |
| Toys | Gwen Tyler | |
| 1994 | Forrest Gump | Jenny Curran |
| 1995 | The Crossing Guard | Jojo |
| 1996 | Moll Flanders | Moll Flanders |
| 1997 | Loved | Hedda Amerson |
| She's So Lovely | Maureen Murphy Quinn | |
| 1998 | Hurlyburly | Darlene |
| 1999 | Message in a Bottle | Theresa Osborne |
| 2000 | How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog | Melanie McGowan |
| Unbreakable | Audrey Dunn | |
| 2001 | The Pledge | Lori |
| The Last Castle | Rosalie Irwin | |
| 2002 | Searching for Debra Winger | Herself |
| White Oleander | Starr Thomas | |
| 2003 | The Singing Detective | Nicola/Nina/Blonde |
| Virgin | Mrs. Reynolds | |
| 2004 | A Home at the End of the World | Clare |
| 2005 | Nine Lives | Diana |
| Sorry, Haters | Phoebe | |
| Max | Mother | |
| 2006 | Breaking and Entering | Liv |
| Room 10 | Frannie | |
| 2007 | Hounddog | Stranger Lady |
| Beowulf | Wealthow | |
| 2008 | What Just Happened | Kelly |
| New York, I Love You | Anna | |
| 2009 | State of Play | Anne Collins |
| The Private Lives of Pippa Lee | Pippa Lee | |
| A Christmas Carol | Fan Scrooge/Belle | |
| 2010 | The Conspirator | Mary Surratt |
| 2011 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Erika Berger |