[1] She also played the shingled lady in John Galsworthy's 1927 Broadway production Escape[2] and Caroline Bingley in the 1940 film of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Born in Edinburgh, Inescort was the daughter of Scots-born journalist John "Jock" Wrightman and actress Elaine Inescourt (née Charlotte Elizabeth Ihle),[3][4] who was of German and Polish descent.

[8] Frieda Wrightman adopted her mother's surname as her professional name and moved to Hollywood and made her film debut in The Dark Angel (1935).

[10] She had a leading role in Call It a Day, a 1937 film in which she appeared with Olivia de Havilland, Bonita Granville, Roland Young, and Ian Hunter.

[19][citation needed] Inescort died at the age of 74 at the Motion Picture Country Home at Woodland Hills, California from multiple sclerosis.