Alison Wright
Biography
Alison Wright is an English actress who began dancing and acting as a child in Sunderland and went on to study in New York City at the Barrow Group and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. She made her screen debut in The Nanny Diaries in 2007 and moved into television, playing Martha Hanson, a lonely FBI secretary manipulated into spying for the Russians, on the FX spy drama The Americans, which brought her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 2017. Her other television work includes the crime drama Sneaky Pete, the dystopian thriller Snowpiercer as Ruth Wardell, and the Ryan Murphy series Feud: Bette and Joan and Hollywood. On film she appeared in The Accountant (2016), Ask for Jane (2018) and Predator: Badlands (2025), and she has also worked on stage, including a Broadway debut in Sweat.
50years old
Turns 51 on July 12in 272 days
- Born Sunderland
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 10 years2015 to 2025
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Early training
Alison Wright trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and The Barrow Group in New York City, and she worked as a waitress while going to auditions.
Alison Wright movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- The Accountant 22025 Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thrilleras Justinevoice
IMDb rating 6.6136K votes
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Gavin O'Connor directed two of these films. Four actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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