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Sarah Wright

American actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ269137
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Sarah Wright Olsen (born September 28, 1983) is an American actress, author, and entrepreneur.

Early life

Wright was born on September 28, 1983, in Louisville, Kentucky, and grew up on a farm in Horse Cave. Her father was a pastor and her mother was a dental hygienist. She has one brother.

She had her first job at 9 years old in a local theatre production of A Christmas Carol and credits this as the moment she fell in love with acting. She also was a part of her high school Drama Club. At 15, she went on a nine country European tour with The Kentucky Ambassadors of Music as a singer.

She graduated from Seneca High School in 2003 at the age of 18. Wright also attended the University of California Los Angeles briefly, taking classes on children's book writing and horticulture.

Career

Wright's career began in modeling when she was 14 years old.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sarah Wright” as american actress. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1983-09-28. The account is most persuasive where Sarah, Wright and American can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american actress. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q269137. VIAF identifies the subject as 305307955. The Library of Congress control number is no2013099205. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1983 and 2003.

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A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Sarah Wright” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.