Get a closer look at some of Hollywood's perfect pairs.

Hollywood Power Couples

Get a closer look at some of Hollywood&#39;s perfect pairs.

"The Gentlemen" and "Slow Horses" return this fall, while the "Reacher" spin-off series "Neagley" makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

Get a closer look at these actors from their many TV and streaming series roles.

Streaming Stars, Then and Now

Robin Gayle Wright was born in Dallas, Texas, to Gayle (Gaston), a national director at Mary Kay and Freddie Wright, a pharmaceutical executive. She grew up in San Diego, California. She started her professional career as a model in 1980 at age 14 and worked both in Paris and Japan. After finishing high school she decided to become an actress. She got a role on the soap opera Santa Barbara (1984), for which she was nominated three times for a Daytime Emmy. During the first season of the show, she fell in love with fellow cast member Dane Witherspoon, whom she married in 1986. Meanwhile, she starred in The Princess Bride (1987), playing the title role. After leaving the cast of Santa Barbara, she got the starring role in Denial (1990) alongside Jason Patric. In 1990, she was in State of Grace (1990), where she met actor Sean Penn, by whom she had a daughter, Dylan Frances and a son, Hopper Jack. After taking some time off, Robin was back to Hollywood with one the best roles of her career: She played Tara in The Playboys (1992). She was extremely stunning and brilliant. Then, she acted in Toys (1992) with Robin Williams and she gave a funny performance. In 1994, Wright was in the blockbuster hit Forrest Gump (1994), with Tom Hanks. For her performance as Jenny, she got a nomination for a Golden Globe Award. She got a small role in The Crossing Guard (1995), which starred Jack Nicholson. After turning down 14 roles, she played the title role of MGM/UA's Moll Flanders (1996), directed by Pen Densham, and co-starring Morgan Freeman and Stockard Channing. She then starred in Erin Dignam's Loved (1997), with William Hurt.

Famous is celebrityism and I don&#39;t want that. I know that I&#39;m not that. Everybody knows who you are, I can&#39;t imagine living that life.

On working on the soap <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0086793/?ref_=nmqu_qu">Santa Barbara (1984)</a>. &quot;I don&#39;t want to knock it. It&#39;s been
great. This has been my acting class - and paid training ain&#39;t
bad.&quot;

Choosing these kinds of intense roles is becoming sort of a bad habit. Playing the average manic-depressive woman who&#39;s hitting 40 - yep, that&#39;d be me. Bring it on! But I think what it is, really, is that [Hollywood] sees you do certain roles and says, &#39;Okay, that&#39;s her, let&#39;s cast her again and again as the same thing.&#39; Then you wind up saying, &#39;I&#39;d like to do something else,&#39; and they whine, &#39;But why?&#39;

These heavy movies, you carry them with you. Some days, when it would be great to chill and be a mom and just crash, I&#39;m so wired, I can&#39;t turn it off. I would love to do a comedy again, it would be so much fun. Do people know that? Let&#39;s tell &#39;em!

[on the state of film in 2012] Everything now is escapism, because that&#39;s where the money is. There is a vacuum for serious drama. The mid-budget serious drama is something you don&#39;t experience anymore.

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Robin Wright

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