Tracy Wright

Acting

Tracy Wright

Born — Died

1959-12-07 — 2010-06-22

Place of birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

37 titles

Tracy Wright was born on December 7, 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 1989, she was a founding member of the Toronto's Augusta Company, along with her future husband Don McKellar and Daniel Brooks, and worked regularly throughout her theatre career with Brooks, McKellar, and Canadian writers and directors including Nadia Ross, Jacob Wren, Daniel MacIvor, Hillar Liitoja, Paul Bettis and Sky Gilbert. In film, she worked closely with McKellar and Bruce McDonald, whose Highway 61 (1991) was one of her first major roles, and This Movie Is Broken and Trigger (2010) were her last. She was also known for her roles in films such as Monkey Warfare, Last Night, When Night Is Falling, Superstar and…

Known for

The Kids in the Hall poster
7.6

The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson.

The Kids in the Hall

1989

Blindness poster
6.5

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

Blindness

2008

Twitch City poster
8.5

Twitch City is a surreal sitcom set in the Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood of Kensington Market, and follows Curtis, a television addict who refuses to leave his apartment, and his friends and roommates Nathan and Hope. In the series' first episode, Nathan is sent to prison for killing a homeless man with a can of cat food, leaving Curtis and Hope to find a replacement roommate to help with the rent.

Twitch City

1998

Me and You and Everyone We Know poster
7.0

Single dad Richard meets Christine, a starving artist who moonlights as a cabbie. They awkwardly attempt to start a romance, but Richard’s divorce has left him emotionally damaged. Meanwhile, Richard’s sons—one a teenager, the other 6-years-old—take part in clumsy experiments with the opposite sex.

Me and You and Everyone We Know

2005

When Night Is Falling poster
6.3

Camille is a professor at a Protestant college and is in a long-term relationship with Martin, a respected minister and fellow professor. When Camille meets Petra, a bold and flamboyant performer in a circus troupe, she is inexplicably drawn. Pursuing Petra, Camille throws her whole conservative life into disarray.

When Night Is Falling

1995

Last Night poster
6.6

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

Last Night

1998

Film credits

2000s · 10 titles

Blindness poster
6.5

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

Blindness

2008

Me and You and Everyone We Know poster
7.0

Single dad Richard meets Christine, a starving artist who moonlights as a cabbie. They awkwardly attempt to start a romance, but Richard’s divorce has left him emotionally damaged. Meanwhile, Richard’s sons—one a teenager, the other 6-years-old—take part in clumsy experiments with the opposite sex.

Me and You and Everyone We Know

2005

Picture Claire poster
5.6

Quebec native Claire Beaucage has a one-night stand with a photographer of some renown. Despite the language barrier between them, he invites her to visit him in Toronto. She shows up on his doorstep after an arson attack leaves her homeless, but soon finds herself caught up in a case of murder and mistaken identity.

Picture Claire

2001

Leslie, My Name Is Evil poster
4.3

A young jury member becomes infatuated with Leslie, a troubled teenager and former homecoming princess, who became a follower of Charles Manson's cult and is now on trial for murder.

Leslie, My Name Is Evil

2009

Apartment Hunting poster
8.0

A married journalist unexpectedly dials up true love over the telephone while doing research for a story.

Apartment Hunting

2000

No artwork available
8.0

Dark Comedy of an alienated, gothic private school girl coming to terms with a terminal illness.

Good Stuff

2001

Childstar poster
5.2

An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.

Childstar

2004

All Hat poster
3.1

An ex-con returns to his rural Ontario roots and outwits a corrupt and wealthy thoroughbred owner trying to take over a slew of local farms. Ray Dokes, a charming ex-ballplayer, returns from jail to discover the rural landscape of his childhood transformed by urban development. Determined to stay out of trouble, Ray heads to the farm of his old friend Pete Culpepper, a crusty Texas cowboy who trains losing racehorses and whose debts are growing faster than his corn.

All Hat

2007

Monkey Warfare poster
4.4

Two ex-revolutionaries living underground have their lives turned upside down by a sexy young radical who goes from smashing SUVs to fighting gentrification with firebombs.

Monkey Warfare

2006

Green Door poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Green Door

2008

1990s · 20 titles

When Night Is Falling poster
6.3

Camille is a professor at a Protestant college and is in a long-term relationship with Martin, a respected minister and fellow professor. When Camille meets Petra, a bold and flamboyant performer in a circus troupe, she is inexplicably drawn. Pursuing Petra, Camille throws her whole conservative life into disarray.

When Night Is Falling

1995

Last Night poster
6.6

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

Last Night

1998

Superstar poster
5.3

Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kissed soulfully. She decides she can realize this dream if she becomes a superstar, so her prayers, her fantasies and her conversations with her only friend focus on achieving super-stardom.

Superstar

1999

The Five Senses poster
5.7

Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman's pre-school daughter in the park. The older daughter meets a voyeur (vision), a professional house-cleaner has an acute sense of smell, a cake maker has lost her sense of taste, and an older man is losing his hearing.

The Five Senses

1999

No artwork available
3.8

Matt, although married, is completely in love with a hustler called Dick. One night Matt leaves his wife and goes to Dick’s apartment where he waits for his loved one. But Dick’s roommate tells Matt that if Dick catches him there he will kill him.

My Addiction

1994

Dog Park poster
5.5

A young man, whose girlfriend has just left him and taken their dog, falls for another woman who is also on the rebound, but who prefers the company of her dog to the company of men.

Dog Park

1998

Sarabande poster
6.5

The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels to Canada to perform Bach's Cello Suites.

Sarabande

1997

Joe's So Mean to Josephine poster
5.6

Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she finally worms her way into his heart she realises it's not a nice place to be. But is it too late?

Joe's So Mean to Josephine

1997

Highway 61 poster
6.8

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.

Highway 61

1991

Bubbles Galore poster
3.0

A bisexual female pornographer searches for sexual and economic independence in a male-dominated industry. But most of all, the girl just wants to have fun.

Bubbles Galore

1996

Wasaga poster
9.0

Rebecca, a video artist from Toronto who is working on a project in Wasaga Beach takes driving lessons from driving instructor Judy because of the town's much more car-oriented lifestyle, only to find Judy becoming a love interest.

Wasaga

1994

My Summer Vacation poster
4.7

Joe is a twenty-something gay man who decides to film people he meets on the street with a camera given to him by his boyfriend.

My Summer Vacation

1996

No artwork available
4.2

A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.

Eclipse

1995

No artwork available
3.8

Marlene Moore has spent most of her life in prison, and is considered so dangerous that the authorities want her locked up indefinitely — though she has never committed a serious crime.

Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story

1996

No artwork available
NR

Set in Depression-era Eastern Ontario, "The Fires of Joanna" tells the story of a woman struggling to endure a harsh and unforgiving life. Joanna McVeigh is a young epileptic woman, who, burdened by an illness for which she is shunned, illuminates her isolation with the pleasures of her one great gift: her ability to set fires with her mind. A tale of sin, guilt, and redemption.

The Fires of Joanna

1998

Elimination Dance poster
7.0

Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.

Elimination Dance

1998

Blue poster
6.0

New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the human psyche.

Blue

1992

Book Of Knives poster
9.0

Book of Knives is based on seven psychiatric case histories dating from 1905 up to the present. These stories are linked through the interrogation of a modern day woman, Iris, who has murdered her plastic surgeon. “Book of Knives” is a short history of women, technology & madness in the twentieth century, and calls into question both the ethics and methodologies of western scientific enquiry.

Book Of Knives

1995

No artwork available
3.7

A brief glimpse into the life a single urban gay male.

Wake Up, Jerk Off

1994

No artwork available
5.5

A boy's desire to play with a Barbie doll prompts a father to question both his son's masculinity and his own.

Permission

1997

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