J. Madison Wright
| J. Madison Wright Morris | |
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In Earth 2 (1994)
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| Born |
Jessica Madison Wright July 29, 1984 Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Died | July 21, 2006 (aged 21) Lexington, Kentucky |
| Cause of death | Heart Failure |
| Other names | Madison Wright |
| Occupation | Actress, teacher |
| Years active | 1994-1999 |
| Spouse(s) | Brent Joseph Morris (m.July 8–21, 2006; her death) |
Jessica Madison Wright Morris (July 29, 1984 – July 21, 2006) was an American actress. Born in Cincinnati, she spent her early years being raised in London, Kentucky.
She was born to parents Scott and Melissa, and had a younger sister, Victoria, and two younger brothers, Isaiah and Elijah. Madison's showbiz career started when she was five years old, as a child model, and she won a summer contract to model in New York. There she experienced her first taste of acting in television commercials. The Wright family relocated to Los Angeles in order to pursue Madison's blooming acting career. In 1994, at the age of 9, she made her acting debut in the comedy Grace Under Fire.
A few months later, her big break came when she was cast in the role of ten-year-old True Danziger in the science fiction television series Earth 2 by producers Cleve Landsberg, Chip Masamitsu, Janace Tashjian and Tony To. The show lasted only one season, airing between 1994 and 1995. Madison moved onto other projects, including portraying a sick child in an Emmy-nominated episode of ER, where she played the first child character to die in the show's history. Her other roles included the family film Shiloh alongside her little sister Tori Wright, the science fiction film The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy, The Burning Zone and the 1998 Disney film Safety Patrol.
By 1999, Madison left her acting career and her family moved back to their home town in Kentucky. After repeated bouts of pneumonia and general ill-health, Madison was diagnosed with restrictive cardiomyopathy, a condition that required her to receive a heart transplant. After a short wait on the donor waiting list, the then fifteen-year-old Madison received the transplant at the Cleveland Clinic in March 2000. Clancy Brown, the actor who played the father of Madison's character in Earth 2, led an appeal to raise money to cover the Wrights' medical costs.
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