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Intro | American actress | |
Places | United States of America | |
was | Actor | |
Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio | |
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Birth | 24 June 1884, Mineral Point, Iowa County, Wisconsin, USA | |
Death | 7 November 1958 (aged 74 years) | |
Star sign | Cancer |
Biography
Ethel Wright Nesbitt (June 24, 1884 – November 7, 1958) was an American actress and teacher.
Wright was born in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, the second of three daughters born to lawyer Samuel Wright and his wife Catherine J Wright. All four of her grandparents were born in England. She had an older sister, Edna Wright, who was an activist and suffragette, and a younger sister, Rowe Wright, who was a magazine and book editor.
Wright appeared in several silent films, including as Marguerite Leonard in A Leap for Love (1912), the working mother in The Cry of the Children (1912), the bank teller's wife in Vengeance Is Mine (1912), Catherine Wolff in Bolshevism on Trial (1919) and Mrs. Minnett in The Enchanted Cottage (1924).
In addition to acting, Wright was a high school teacher. She married mechanical engineer Hugh Nesbitt from New Jersey on June 12, 1915, in Milwaukee. From 1920–45, she was principal of the Professional Children's School in New York City.
She died in New Jersey in 1958.