Robin Gayle Wright Penn was born on April 8, 1966 in Dallas, Texas, USA. She is an American film actress.

She became a model at age 14 and worked in France and Japan before turning to acting. Penn first became famous on television, playing Kelly Capwell on the soap opera Santa Barbara, and shot to stardom after her roles as Buttercup in The Princess Bride and Jenny Curran in Forrest Gump, the latter role garnering her a Golden Globe Award nomination for best supporting actress.

Wright Penn also appeared in M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable (2000), and was set to act opposite Robert Downey Jr. in The Singing Detective (2003). After essaying the role of a mother whose daughter appears to have been blessed by immaculate conception in the 2003 drama Virgin, Penn would make a powerful impression with her role as a questionable cab fare in the post-9/11 racism drama Sorry, Haters.

In 2006 Penn would join an impressive cast that included Jude Law, Ray Winstone, and Juliette Binoche to tell the tale of intersecting lives in modern day London in director Anthony Minghella's Breaking & Entering.

She married Sean Penn. Today they live in Ross, California.

Filmography

• Untitled Ernest Hemingway Project (2008)
• What Just Happened? (2008)
• Beowulf (2007)
• Hounddog (2007)
• Room 10 (2006)
• Breaking and Entering (2006)
• Max (2005)
• Sorry, Haters (2005)
• Empire Falls (2005)
• Nine Lives (2005)
• A Home at the End of the World (2004)
• Virgin (2003)
• The Singing Detective (2003)
• White Oleander (2002)
• The Last Castle (2001)
• The Pledge (2001)
• Unbreakable (2000)
• How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)
• Message in a Bottle (1999)
• Hurlyburly (1998)
• She's So Lovely (1997)
• Loved (1997)
• Moll Flanders (1996)
• The Crossing Guard (1995)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Toys (1992)
• The Playboys (1992)
• State of Grace (1990)
• Denial (1990)
• "A TV Dante" (1989)
• The Princess Bride (1987)
• "Santa Barbara" (193 episodes, 1984-1988)
• Hollywood Vice Squad (1986)
• "The Yellow Rose" (2 episodes, 1983-1984)

Awards

• Seattle Film Festival Award Best Actress "Loved" 1997
• Soap Opera Digest Award Outstanding Heroine: Daytime "Santa Barbara" 1987 - 88