April 8, 1966: Robin Wright is born in Dallas, Texas

Robin Virginia Gayle Wright is born in Dallas, Texas, on April 8, 1966.

Her parents are Fred Wright (born on 1941) and Gayle Gaston (born in 1944).

Robin Wright is their second child. She has a brother that is three years older than her. He’s Richard Wright who was born on November 15, 1962.

1968/1969: Robin’s parents divorce and she leaves Texas for California

Robin Wright’s parents divorced when she was two/three years old, but luckily it was an amicable split.

Gayle Gaston left Dallas with their children and they went to California.

Robin Wright was raised by her mother in San Diego, with her older brother Richard, and then she spent summers with her father in Dallas.

The 1970s: A New family for Robin Wright

Gayle Gaston joined a cosmetics company that was going into the market. It was Mary Kay Cosmetics. Becoming one of the company’s executives, she had to travel a lot, taking her two little ones (Robin and Richard) everywhere with her.

Robin’s mother remarried an Englishman named Andy Carmichael, who also had two children. Robin was only eleven years old.

The 1980s: Studying in La Jolla High School & Modelling all over the world

Robin Wright spent her childhood and teenage years in San Diego, attending La Jolla High School.

Her professional career began as a model. She started modeling at an early age, traveling to Europe, North Africa and Japan while she still was in high school.

Wright says she pursued modeling mainly for the traveling opportunities it provided: “I think that the whole idea of beauty distorts your ability to not only find yourself but to have a healthy sense of your identity. And then I went to Europe and I didn’t want to come home. I loved Europe so much.”

But Robin Wright always thought that modeling was a really humiliating business where she was treated like a piece of meat.

At 17, she was working in Paris when a short-tempered and very famous photographer shouted that her breasts were too small and her ass too big.

At Christmas 1983, she decided to go to California to spend the holidays with her family. As soon as she arrived, she was hired for television commercials.

Robin Wright did modeling until she decided that selling her beauty was no longer acceptable to her as woman. She says, “I tried to get the other models to revolt.”

In 1984, Robin quit modeling and tried acting instead.

1982-1983: Robin Wright in La Jolla High School Yearbooks

Here are some pictures of Robin Wright from La Jolla High School yearbook.

In the first one from 1982, Robin was only 16 years old.

She graduated from La Jolla High School in 1983, where she was a homecoming princess and was voted Best Looking during her senior year.

Calling herself a bit of a rebel at that age, Robin Wright admits she was surprised when she learned she’d been named to La Jolla High School’s 1983 Homecoming court. Still, she shook off her initial shock and accepted her new role with grace.

1982-1983: Robin Wright as a model

Here you can see some pictures of Robin Wright when she was modelling at the age of 16-17.

Here’s a beautiful pic of from 1982. The photographer is Edo Bertoglio.

1983: Robin Wright covers Nous Deux

As a model, Robin Wright was in the cover of French magazine Nous Deux.