Robin Wright

Robin Wright is an actress and director best known for her roles in The Princess Bride, Forrest Gump and House of Cards. Wright was raised in San Diego, California, and attended La Jolla High School and later Taft High School in Los Angeles. After graduating, she began working as a model at age 14, traveling internationally before turning to acting.

Wright made her television debut in 1984 on the soap opera Santa Barbara, playing Kelly Capwell for four years and earning three Daytime Emmy nominations. She gained widespread recognition in 1987 as Princess Buttercup in The Princess Bride. Her performance as Jenny Curran in Forrest Gump (1994) brought her Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress.

She went on to appear in numerous films, including Message in a Bottle (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Moneyball (2011) and Wonder Woman (2017). From 2013 to 2018, she starred as Claire Underwood on Netflix’s House of Cards, a role that earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama. She has also directed episodes of the series and later directed the feature film Land in 2021.

Wright was married to actor Dane Witherspoon from 1986 to 1988. She later wed actor Sean Penn in 1996, and the couple share children Dylan (born in 1991) and Hopper (born in 1993). The two split in 2010, and she later moved on with Clément Giraudet from 2018 to 2022.