Sarah Wright

Wright was born on September 28, 1983, in Louisville, Kentucky and grew up on a farm in Horse Cave.^[1] Her father was a pastor and her mother had a dental practice.^[2] She has one brother.^[3]

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.^[4][5]

She graduated from Seneca High School in 2003 at the age of 18.^[6] Wright also attended the University of California Los Angeles briefly, taking classes on children's book writing and horticulture.^[7]

Wright's career began in modeling when she was 14 years old. She traveled to a number of countries for modeling before getting her first minor acting role in the 1998 comedy Enchanted.^[8][9] At 18, she had moved to Chicago, Illinois and was working in commercials. Wright booked her first television pilot in 2004 and shortly moved to Los Angeles, California.^[10] This was her first big break, playing the role of Paige Cha se in the short-lived sitcom Quintuplets, with Andy Richter and Rebecca Creskoff as her parents.^[11][12]

From 2006 to 2007, Wright also had a recurring role as Jane on the CW drama series 7th Heaven.^[13] She also co-starred in the Fox sitcom The Loop as Lizzy. The show ran for two seasons before being canceled in 2007.^[14] In 2008, she had a role Fred Wolf's comedy film, The House Bunny. Her role, Ashley, was as a rival to Anna Farris, Emma Stone, and Kat Dennings' characters.^[15] She followed this with a number of guest appearances in the following years, including shows such as Accidentally on Purpose, Mad Men, How I Met Your Mother, and The Middle.

In 2011, Wright began a recurring role in the CBS mid-season replacement comedy series Mad Love and maintained a small recurring role as Millicent Gergich on the NBC mockumentary sitcom show Parks and Recreation.^[16] She would go on to appear as the main love interest in the 2013 comedy film, 21 & Over, alongside Justin Chon, Miles Teller, and Skylar Astin.^[17] From 2014 to 2015, she had a main role in NBC's sitcom, Marry Me, as Dennah before it was canceled.^[18][19]

In 2017, Wright co-starred alongside Tom Cruise in the action crime film American Made where she portrayed Lucy Seal. Her character was loosely based on Debbie Seal, the wife to American drug smuggler, Barry Seal. The cast also featured names such as Domhnall Gleeson, Alejandro Edda, Mauricio Mejía, Caleb Landry Jones and Jesse Plemons.^[20][21] The film received generally positive reviews and grossed $134 million worldwide.^[22] The following year, she landed the leading role in the CW's adaption of Carl Hiaasen's Skinny Dip, however the series was not picked up following the pilot.^[23]

She had a major role as Mandy Davis, the matriarch of the Davis family, in the 2020 Netflix's figure skating drama series, Spinning Out.^[24] The show received mixed reviews and was canceled the following month.^[25] This was followed up with a brief appearance in the sitcom Home Economics in 2021 before she took a break from acting. The following year, she released her first children's book Happiness is the Journey!, inspired by her daughter's experiences with online-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[26]

She made her return to acting in 2026, when she had a guest appearance on the CBS legal drama series Matlock. She portrayed Gwen, an efficiency expert analyzing the law firm.^[27][28] Her second children's book When I Am Not with You: How We’re Together, Even When We’re Apart is set to come out in September.

In 2005, Wright married A. J. Mason and they divorced in 2006.^[32][33]

Wright met fellow actor Eric Christian Olsen, in 2006, on the set of the Fox sitcom The Loop. They served as co-stars and began dating.^[34][35] They married near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on June 23, 2012.^[36] The couple have a son, born in 2013,^[37] and three daughters, born in 2016,^[38] 2020^[39][40] and 2025.^[41]

The couple appeared on a 2015 episode of HGTV's House Hunters, where they chose their dream home in Los Angeles, California. They resided in this home until the 2025 California wildfires, where they lost the house.^[42][43]

She and her family are vegetarians.^[2]

• Zen Mamas: Finding Your Path Through Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond (2021), ISBN 978-0785241508
• Happiness is the Journey! (2022), ISBN 979-8985218923
• When I Am Not with You: How We’re Together, Even When We’re Apart (2026) ISBN 978-0310177296^[44]