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Robin Wright Penn

Robin Gayle Wright-Penn is an American film actress best known for playing Princess Buttercup in The Princess Bride, and for the role of Jenny in Forest Gump. Born Robin Gayle Wright on April 8, 1966 in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Gayle Gaston, an Independent Executive National Sales Director for Mary Kay cosmetics, and Fred Wright, a pharmaceutical executive. She was raised in San Diego, California. Wright first became famous on television, playing Kelly Capwell on the soap opera Santa Barbara, which earned her 3 Emmy-nominations. She 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 was offered the role of Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, but turned it down because she was pregnant. Robin became involved with actor Sean Penn in 1989 following his divorce from Madonna, marrying on 27 April 1996. Their daughter Dylan Frances Penn was born on 13 April 1991, and son Hopper Jack Penn was born on 6 August 1993. Currently they live in Ross, California. On December 27, 2007, the couple's representative announced that the Penns are divorcing, however, on April 09, 2008, it was announced that the couple had filed a petition to dismiss the divorce. Wright-Penn was previously married to actor Dane Witherspoon from 1986 to 1988. She is the national campaign spokesperson for the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America.

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