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==Career== Wright began her career as a model, when she was 14.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv3.co.nz/Robin-Wright-as-Claire-Underwood/tabid/4246/articleID/95790/Default.aspx|title=Robin Wright as Claire Underwood|work=TV3}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10621566/Robin-Wright-on-House-of-Cards-Botox-and-getting-married-again.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10621566/Robin-Wright-on-House-of-Cards-Botox-and-getting-married-again.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Robin Wright on House of Cards, Botox and getting married again|last=Broadbent|first=Lucy|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=February 9, 2014|access-date=May 21, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> At the age of 18, she played [[Kelly Capwell]] in the [[NBC Daytime]] soap opera ''[[Santa Barbara (TV series)|Santa Barbara]]'', for which she received several [[Daytime Emmy Award]] nominations.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yYQjAQAAIAAJ|title=Young Hollywood|last=Cameron-Wilson|first=James|year=1994|publisher=Batsford|isbn=978-0-7134-7266-0|page=218}}</ref> ===1980sβ2000s: Transition into feature films=== [[File:Flickr_-_Josh_Jensen_-_Robin_Wright_Penn_(cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Wright attending the [[2009 Toronto International Film Festival]]]] [[File:Robin Wright 2009.jpg|thumb|upright|Wright in 2009]] Wright transitioned into feature film work with a role in ''[[Hollywood Vice Squad]]'' in 1986, followed by her breakthrough role as Princess Buttercup in the [[Cult hit|cult film]] ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' in 1987. She gained critical acclaim in her role as Jenny Curran in ''[[Forrest Gump]]'' (1994), receiving Golden Globe Award and [[Screen Actors Guild]] nominations for Best Supporting Actress. Wright starred in a leading role of the film adaptation of [[Daniel Defoe]]'s ''[[Moll Flanders (1996 film)|Moll Flanders]]'' (1996), for which she received a [[Satellite Awards|Satellite Award]] nomination for Best Actress in a Drama. She was nominated for a [[Screen Actors Guild Award]] for Best Actress for her role in ''[[She's So Lovely]]'' (1997), a film in which she co-starred with her then-husband [[Sean Penn]]. Wright starred with [[Kevin Costner]] in [[Luis Mandoki]]'s [[Message in a Bottle (film)|film adaptation]] of [[Nicholas Sparks]]' novel ''[[Message in a Bottle (novel)|Message in a Bottle]]''. She received her third Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for her role in the television film ''[[Empire Falls]]'' (2005). ===2013β2018: ''House of Cards''=== From 2013 to 2018, Wright appeared in the [[Netflix]] political drama [[streaming television]] series ''[[House of Cards (American TV series)|House of Cards]]'' in the role of [[Claire Underwood]], the ruthless wife of political mastermind [[Frank Underwood (House of Cards)|Frank Underwood]]. On January 12, 2014, she won a Golden Globe for the role, becoming the first actress to win the award for a [[streaming television]] series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/01/2014_golden_globes_robin_wright_wins_best_actress_for_online-only_house_of_cards.html|title=2014 Golden Globes: Robin Wright wins best actress for online-only 'House of Cards'|last=Hyman|first=Vicki|work=[[The Star-Ledger]]|publisher=[[NJ.com]]|date=January 12, 2014|access-date=January 13, 2014}}</ref> She was nominated for the same award in 2015. She received nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award in 2013 and 2014 for the same role.<ref name="Peck">{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/robin-wright-kevin-spacey-equal-pay_us_573b619ce4b0aee7b8e7f5a9?|title=Robin Wright Demanded The Same Pay As Kevin Spacey For 'House of Cards'|last=Peck|first=Emily|work=[[HuffPost]]|date=May 18, 2016|access-date=May 19, 2016}}</ref> Following [[House of Cards season 4|Season 4]] in 2016, Wright stated that she felt Claire Underwood was the equal of Frank Underwood and demanded equal pay for her performance as her co-star [[Kevin Spacey]]. Netflix acquiesced.<ref name="Peck"/> In 2017, for her performance in the [[House of Cards season 5|fifth season]], Wright was nominated for her fifth consecutive Primetime Emmy for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series|Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series]]. In 2014, 2016, and 2017, Wright received [[Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series|Best Actress in a Drama Series]] nominations for the [[Critics' Choice Television Awards]], with her being the only nomination for the show in December 2017. In October 2017, she was the show's new lead for the final season, following the firing of Kevin Spacey due to [[Kevin Spacey sexual misconduct allegations|sexual misconduct allegations]]. For her last appearance as Underwood, her performance was acclaimed - described as a "commanding performance [that] is more than enough to keep [the final season] standing strong"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/house_of_cards/s06/|title=House of Cards: Season 6 (2018) |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=July 16, 2019}}</ref> - earning her her final nominations for the role at the [[25th Screen Actors Guild Awards|Screen Actors Guild]] and [[71st Primetime Emmy Awards|Primetime Emmy Awards]] in 2019. For the latter, she became one of seven women to be nominated for the category six or more times for the same show, the first in 10 years since [[Mariska Hargitay]] for ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.goldderby.com/article/2019/robin-wright-house-of-cards-best-drama-actress-emmy-netflix/|title= Robin Wright ('House of Cards') just became the first actress in 10 years to pull off this rare Emmy stat|magazine=[[Gold Derby]]|date=July 17, 2019|access-date=June 26, 2020}}</ref> ===Further film and directorial work=== In 2017, Wright directed a short film, ''The Dark of Night'', which starred [[Sam Rockwell]] and premiered at the [[2017 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |title=THE DARK OF NIGHT - Festival de Cannes 2023 |url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/films/the-dark-of-night |website=[[Cannes Film Festival|Festival de Cannes]] |date=May 18, 2017 |access-date=February 4, 2023}}</ref> Wright played [[Antiope (comics)|General Antiope]] in ''[[Wonder Woman (2017 film)|Wonder Woman]]'' in 2017, and its [[Wonder Woman 1984|2020 sequel]] alongside [[Gal Gadot]] and [[Chris Pine]]. The film earned positive reviews and emerged as a financial success, grossing $822.8 million at the box office.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wonder_woman_2017|title=Wonder Woman (2017)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|date=June 2, 2017 |accessdate=February 4, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Box Office Mojo |title=Wonder Woman |id=tt0451279 |access-date=February 4, 2023}}</ref> She appears in the ''[[Blade Runner]]'' sequel ''[[Blade Runner 2049]]'' alongside [[Ryan Gosling]], [[Harrison Ford]], and [[Jared Leto]], directed by [[Denis Villeneuve]]. Her feature film directorial debut in the film ''[[Land (2021 film)|Land]]'' was announced in April 2019.<ref name="Land-Debut">{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2019/film/news/robin-wright-directorial-debut-film-land-hanway-films-1203201386/ |title=Robin Wright Heads Into Wilderness for Directorial Film Debut 'Land,' With Sales to Start at Cannes|last=Clarke|first=Stewart|publisher=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=April 30, 2019|access-date=July 16, 2019}}</ref> Wright starred as its lead, Edee Mathis, a lawyer who retreats in grief to the Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming. Sales for the film start at Cannes in May 2019.<ref name="Land-Debut" /> Filming began in October 2019 and the film was picked up by distributor [[Focus Features]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://collider.com/land-filming-begins-robin-wright-directorial-debut/|title=Filming Begins on Robin Wright's Directorial Debut 'Land'|website=[[Collider (website)|Collider]]|first=Tom|last=Reimann|date=October 18, 2019|access-date=June 26, 2020}}</ref> ''Land'' premiered in January 2021 at the [[2021 Sundance Film Festival|Sundance Film Festival]] to generally positive reviews, with specific praise towards the direction and the performances. Peter Debruge in a review for [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] wrote: "So bless Wright for paring βLandβ down to a beautiful haiku, and for delivering a performance that's ambiguous and understated in all the right ways," and "in a directorial debut so pure and simple it speaks to enormous self-confidence, has better instincts than to reveal outright."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/reviews/land-review-robin-wright-1234896760/ |title='Land' Review: A Broken Soul Rebuilds in Robin Wright's Beautiful Solo Show|last=Debruge|first=Peter|publisher=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=January 31, 2021|access-date=January 14, 2023}}</ref> In 2022, Wright directed the final two episodes of the first part of season 4 of the Netflix show, [[Ozark (TV series)|''Ozark'']]. The episodes were titled: "Sangre Sobre Todo" and "Sanctified".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.looper.com/733164/the-surprising-director-behind-two-episodes-of-ozark-season-4-part-1/ |title=The Surprising Director Behind Two Episodes Of Ozark Season 4, Part 1|last=Rowe|first=Brandon|publisher=[[Looper (website)|Looper]]|date=January 21, 2022|access-date=January 21, 2022}}</ref> Kayla Cobb for ''[[Decider (website)|Decider]]'' praised Wright's direction in the latter episode as "powerful" with the pairing of her direction, the script and actress [[Julia Garner]]'s performance as a "masterful collaboration."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cobb |first1=Kayla |title='Ozark's "Sanctified" Is an Audio Masterpiece |url=https://decider.com/2022/01/27/ozark-season-4-episode-7-is-a-masterpiece/ |website=[[Decider (website)|Decider]] |access-date=February 4, 2023 |date=January 27, 2022}}</ref> Wright will next star in and produce Ben Young's thriller ''[[Where All Light Tends to Go]]'', an adaptation of the book of the same name by [[David Joy (author)|David Joy]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Welk|first=Brian|title= Robin Wright and Billy Bob Thornton to Star in Thriller 'Where All Light Tends to Go'|date=September 2, 2021|website=TheWrap|url= https://www.thewrap.com/robin-wright-billy-bob-thornton-where-all-light-tends-to-go/|accessdate=January 14, 2023}}</ref> In April 2022, Wright joined the cast of Netflix's fantasy film ''Damsel'' directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2022/04/damsel-robin-wright-ray-winstone-nick-robinson-brooke-carter-shohreh-aghdashloo-join-netflix-millie-bobby-brown-fantasy-pic-1235000956/|title='Damsel': Robin Wright, Ray Winstone, Nick Robinson, Brooke Carter & Shohreh Aghdashloo Join Netflix Millie Bobby Brown Fantasy Pic|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|date=12 April 2022|work=Deadline Hollywood}}</ref> Wright also starred in a [[Sony Pictures Classics]] and [[Miramax]] [[Here (2024 film)|adaptation]] of [[Richard McGuire]]'s ''[[Here (comics)|Here]]'' in a ''Forrest Gump'' reteam with director [[Robert Zemeckis]], actor [[Tom Hanks]] and writer [[Eric Roth]] coming on November 1, 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2022/05/robin-wright-tom-hanks-robert-zemeckis-eric-roth-forest-gump-reteam-sony-pictures-miramax-1235021582/ |title=Sony Pictures Lands U.S. Rights To Miramax's 'Here'; Robin Wright Joins Tom Hanks, Robert Zemeckis, Eric Roth In 'Forrest Gump' Reteam β Cannes Market|last=Fleming|first=Mike Jr.|publisher=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=May 11, 2022|access-date=January 14, 2023}}</ref>
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