Tracy Wright was born on December 7, 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 1989, she was a founding member of the Toronto's Augusta Company, along with her future husband Don McKellar and Daniel Brooks, and worked regularly throughout her theatre career with Brooks, McKellar, and Canadian writers and directors including Nadia Ross, Jacob Wren, Daniel MacIvor, Hillar Liitoja, Paul Bettis and Sky Gilbert. In film, she worked closely with McKellar and Bruce McDonald, whose Highway 61 (1991) was one of her first major