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Helen Wright
actress
- Born:
- 1868-11, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Died:
- 1928-03-24, California, USA
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
November 1868 found Helen Wright drawing her first breath amid the river-blurred chill of St. Paul, Minnesota. By the time silent film began to flicker, she had already learned to let emotion speak without words, commanding the screen in three era-defining pictures: the prairie mystery A Stranger from Somewhere (1916), Ibsen’s fiercely re-imagined A Doll’s House (1917), and the high-speed thriller The Brass Bullet (1918). California sunshine warmed her final afternoon on 24 March 1928, closing the curtain on a life lived between gaslight and klieg light.
