Hoping to win a contest for acting lessons, she sent in her photograph and ended up with a full year's paid tuition.
From 1995 until 1999 she played the part of Chloe Richards in the Australian soap opera Home and Away and briefly returned to this role in June 2005, when her character died from an embolism resulting from a car accident.
She worked on an episode of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s – The Lost World, and has also featured in the Australian drama, The Alice.
She had a minor role as the hand maiden Moteé in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.
[1] Wright moved to Los Angeles in 2006 to pursue acting in Hollywood as the logical next step in her career.