She first gained recognition for portraying Nurse Caroline Buxton on the long running New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street.
She is best known for her roles as Fenn Partington on Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, Catherine Duvall on Nothing Trivial, and Ruth in Pearl.
She played a recurring role in 800 Words portraying the character Laura Turner.
[2] Her father Vernon Wright, is a former journalist for "The Listener" who now lives in Zambia, and her mother Dinah is a writer and actress in Wellington.
Other roles include Power Rangers: S.P.D., Crash Palace, Out of the Blue, Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, The Lost Children, Black Sheep and Legend of the Seeker.