Tracy Wright
Birth : 1959-12-07, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Death : 2010-06-22
History
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 Me and You and Everyone We Know. Highlights of her television appearances include The Kids in the Hall and Twitch City.
Wright also acted in Bob Wiseman's video "We Got Time" in 1989, along with Leslie Spit Treeo and Don McKellar, and she is the subject of a song by Wiseman, entitled "Mothface@yahoo.ca" from his 2013 release Giulietta Masina at the Oscars Crying.
She was married to McKellar, her long-term partner, in January 2010.
Wright died on June 22, 2010, aged 50, from pancreatic cancer.
She wa known for Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), Trigger (2010) and Blindness (2008). She was married to Don McKellar. She died on June 22, 2010 in Toronto.
The Archivist
Several story threads about consciousness and perception intertwine in this film by video installation artist Daniel Cockburn.
Vic
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
Box Office Woman
Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long time friend. So tonight is Bruno's last chance. And tonight, as it happens, Broken Social Scene, her favourite band, is throwing a big outdoor bash. Maybe if Bruno, with the help of his best pal Blake, can score tickets and give Caroline a night to remember, he can keep this miracle alive.
Leslie's Mom
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.
Rhonda
Thief's Wife
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.
Elizabeth Dokes
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.
Linda
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.
Nancy Herrington
A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life.
Tabitha
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.
Detective Sweeney
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.
Steve
A married journalist unexpectedly dials up true love over the telephone while doing research for a story.
Sister Anne
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.
Alex
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.
Donna
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
Dog Psychologist's Wife
Sex comedy takes a look at contemporary dating mores and hypothesizes that the new dating location may be the dog walk in the park. Follow one mild-mannered man who's consistently unlucky in love and dogs.
Female Dance Partner
Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.
Joanna McVeigh
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.
Emily
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.
Spot
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.
Vivian Klitorsky
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.
Marvette
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.
Dispatcher
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?
Souvenir Shop Clerk
A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.
Tory
A prudish woman working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university finds herself attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman who works at a local carnival.
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.
Judy
Mixing conventional and new digital technologies, Judith Doyle also weaves a dialectic between reality and fiction linked by he casual introspection of the film's narrator, a video artist named Rebecca. Over black and white archival footage from a fifties tourism film about Wasaga Beach, Rebecca says "I videotape photographs and places that are gone."
A brief glimpse into the life a single urban gay male.
New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the human psyche.
Margo
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.
