ROBIN WRIGHT PENN (Starr) made her motion picture debut in the cult classic The Princess Bride, and has since garnered worldwide acclaim as one of the most interesting and versatile actresses in film. She earned a Golden Globe nomination for her co-starring role in the international box office hit Forrest Gump, with Tom Hanks and Sally Field.
In 1997, Wright Penn received prestigious award recognition for her leading roles in two films: for She’s So Lovely (co-starring Sean Penn and John Travolta) she earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture; for Loved (starring opposite William Hurt), which was a special presentation at the Toronto Film Festival, she won the Best Actress Award at the Seattle Film Festival and received an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
Wright Penn most recently starred opposite Jack Nicholson in Sean Penn’s highly acclaimed The Pledge and opposite Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson in M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable. She co-starred with Kevin Costner and Paul Newman in Message In A Bottle, directed by Luis Mandoki; the independent film Hurlyburly, directed by Anthony Drazen, with Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey and Meg Ryan; starred opposite Kenneth Branagh and Lynn Redgrave in How to Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog, directed by Michael Kalesniko and produced by Robert Redford and starred in the title role in Moll Flanders.
Her other film credits include Toys, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Robin Williams; The Playboys, directed by Gillies MacKinnon, starring Albert Finney and Aidan Quinn; State of Grace, directed by Phil Joanou, starring Sean Penn, Ed Harris and Gary Oldman; The Crossing Guard, directed by Sean Penn, and Denial, starring Jason Patric.
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