Her television appearances included guest starring roles on episodes of Magnum, P.I. and Highway to Heaven before replacing Robin Wright on the NBC daytime soap Santa Barbara.
She attended La Jolla High School and Taft High School in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.
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She also appears as Claire Underwood in the Netflix series House of Cards, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, and for which she won the Golden Globe in 2014 for best actress in a TV series (drama), making her the first actress to win a Golden Globe for an online-only web television series.
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From 1986 to 1988, Wright was married to actor Dane Witherspoon, whom she met in 1984 on the set of the soap-opera Santa Barbara.
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In 1990 she was a featured vocalist, along with Robin Wright, on a dance version of California Dreamin' by the studio group The Midnight Shift.