生于罗得岛普罗维登斯，曾就读于潘布鲁克妇女学院、布郎大学、密执安大学戏剧学院。早年曾在地方电视台任时装评论员，还在纽约当健美模特儿。1937年进入电影界，与米高梅公司签订拍片合约，首先在影片中出演配角，直到40年代初，才成为米高梅影片公司的主要女演员之一。1940年，她在《费城故事》中的出色表演，使她获得了该处最佳女配角金像奖的提名；在演戏之余，她还在百老汇参加戏剧演出，她与拉尔夫．贝拉米合作演出了的百老汇名剧《国情咨文》。
作品: 英伦战火 / 笃定发生 / 伊甸园之东
艾美奖 最佳女配角（剧情类）(提名) 火线警告 第一季 (2007)
Ben Wright was born May 5, 1915, to an English mother and an American father in London, England, UK. At 16, he entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts where classmates included such future stars as Ida Lupino. Upon graduating, he acted in several West End stage productions. When WWII broke out, he enlisted and served in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps. He came to America in 1946 to attend a cousin's wedding and settled in Hollywood. He began his American acting career in radio, establishing himself as a master of dialects with such roles as Hey Boy, the Chinese servant, on "Have Gun, Will Travel" with John Dehner. His talent for dialects also kept him busy in the many WWII-related films and TV shows of the 1950s and '60s wherein he played countless Germans and Frenchmen as well as a variety of Englishmen for which he ensured the dialects were accurate depending on which part of England they were from. After years of radio, TV, stage and film work, he entered semi-retirement in the late 1970s, accepting occasional voice work and small guest appearances on TV. On June 16, 1989, after completing his last role, providing the voice of Grimsby in Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989), he entered St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank for quadruple bypass surgery from which he never recovered. He died of heart failure July 2, 1989.
