Robin Gayle

Robin Gayle Wright was born in Dallas, Texas, to Gayle (Gaston), an executive director for national operations at Mary Kay, and Freddie Wright, a pharmaceutical executive. She was born in San Diego, California. She started her professional career as a model in the year 1980 at age 14, and worked both in Paris as well as Japan. After high school, she made the choice to become an actor. She was cast on the soap show Santa Barbara (1984), for which she was nominated three times for a Daytime Emmy. The first season of the show she began to fall in love with co-star Dane Witherspoon, whom she married in the year 1986. She was the princess bride (1987) in the role of the title. She was cast as Santa Barbara but left to be a part of Denial (1990) together with Jason Patric. In 1990, she was playing the role of State of Grace (1990), where she was introduced to actor Sean Penn, by whom she had a daughter named Dylan Frances, and a son named Hopper Jack. Robin returned to Hollywood following a break, and landed one of her most memorable roles: Tara in The Playboys (1992). She was absolutely stunning and amazing. In the following film, she appeared Toys (1992), alongside Robin Williams. She gave a hilarious performance. In 1994, Wright was in the blockbuster sensation Forrest Gump (1994), together with Tom Hanks. She received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award in recognition of her performance as Jenny. She was offered a small part in The Crossing Guard (1995) which starred Jack Nicholson. After having turned down 14 roles she was cast in the title role of MGM/UA's Moll Flanders (1996), directed by Pen Densham, and co-starring Morgan Freeman and Stockard Channing. Next, she starred with William Hurt in Erin Dignam’s Loved (1997).