Robin Wright

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Cary Elwes as Westley and Robin Wright as Princess Buttercup stand close together in a forest, looking alert, in a scene from the film The Princess Bride.

Robin Wright

American actress

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…appeared with his second wife—Robin Wright (married 1996; divorced 2010)—in She’s So Lovely (1997), for which he was named best actor at the Cannes film festival. In 1998 he starred in Terrence Malick’s World War II drama The Thin Red Line, and he later received Oscar nominations for Sweet…
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…appeared with his second wife—Robin Wright (married 1996; divorced 2010)—in She’s So Lovely (1997), for which he was named best actor at the Cannes film festival. In 1998 he starred in Terrence Malick’s World War II drama The Thin Red Line, and he later received Oscar nominations for Sweet…
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The Princess Bride
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…of Florin, where Buttercup (Robin Wright) and the handsome farm boy, Westley (Carey Elwes) reside. Westley is in love with Buttercup and whenever she demands something of him, he always replies, “As you wish.” After Buttercup realizes that she loves Westley, he leaves to work overseas in order to…
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…of Florin, where Buttercup (Robin Wright) and the handsome farm boy, Westley (Carey Elwes) reside. Westley is in love with Buttercup and whenever she demands something of him, he always replies, “As you wish.” After Buttercup realizes that she loves Westley, he leaves to work overseas in order to…
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