Tracy Wright Remembered
Tracy Wright remembered
BY Chander Levack, Eye Weekly.com
Tracy Wright built a career out of small parts. But the Toronto actress, who died Tuesday (June 22) after a battle with pancreatic cancer, will be remembered as a leading lady.
Throughout her 20-year career as muse for a host of directors and writers that included Bruce McDonald, Daniel MacIvor and her longtime collaborator and husband Don McKellar, Wright personified women on the periphery. She was best known for her film roles as an aging, pot-smoking radical in Reg Harkema’s 2006 movie Monkey Warfare (where, with the strength of her performance, she couldn’t help but steal scenes from co-stars McKellar and Nadia Litz) and as an art curator who unwittingly engages in a online affair with a child in Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005). July had been so inspired by Wright’s small role in McKellar’s Last Night that she’d written the part based on the character - only to reportedly recognize Wright in the lobby of a movie theatre in Rotterdam and cast her to play it.
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BY Chander Levack, Eye Weekly.com
Tracy Wright built a career out of small parts. But the Toronto actress, who died Tuesday (June 22) after a battle with pancreatic cancer, will be remembered as a leading lady.
Throughout her 20-year career as muse for a host of directors and writers that included Bruce McDonald, Daniel MacIvor and her longtime collaborator and husband Don McKellar, Wright personified women on the periphery. She was best known for her film roles as an aging, pot-smoking radical in Reg Harkema’s 2006 movie Monkey Warfare (where, with the strength of her performance, she couldn’t help but steal scenes from co-stars McKellar and Nadia Litz) and as an art curator who unwittingly engages in a online affair with a child in Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005). July had been so inspired by Wright’s small role in McKellar’s Last Night that she’d written the part based on the character - only to reportedly recognize Wright in the lobby of a movie theatre in Rotterdam and cast her to play it.
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