Ethel Wright

American actress
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAmerican actress
PlacesUnited States of America
wasActor
Work fieldFilm, TV, Stage & Radio
Gender
Female
Birth24 June 1884, Mineral Point, Iowa County, Wisconsin, USA
Death7 November 1958 (aged 74 years)
Star signCancer
The details

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.

Ethel Wright at right in still from Bolshevism on Trial (1919)
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