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Tom Wright

Tom Wright

Birthday: 1952-11-29 | Place of Birth: Englewood, New Jersey, USA

Harold Thomas Wright is an American television and theatre actor. Wright has appeared in over 40 stage productions on and off Broadway. He began his acting career as an original member of The People's Light and Theater Company outside of Philadelphia. Wright also spent four years at the National Playwrights Conference and two summers at the Sundance Institute. On Broadway, he performed in A Taste of Honey which received two Tony Award nominations. Some of the notable theaters in which he has appeared include the American Place Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, New York Theater Workshop, Actors Theater of Louisville, Center Stage, Yale Repertory Theater, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Hartford Stage, Los Angeles Stage and Film, and Theatre De La Jeune Lune in Minneapolis starring in Farthest From The Sun with Steve Guttenberg. In 1987, he played a hitchhiker in the horror film Creepshow 2. Wright co-starred in the feature films Barbershop and Barbershop 2: Back in Business with Ice Cube. He also co-starred with Angela Bassett as her ex-lover in Sunshine State, his fifth film with writer/director John Sayles. The other four Sayles films include: Passion Fish, City of Hope, Matewan and The Brother from Another Planet. Since then he co-starred in another Sayles feature, Honeydripper. In 2000, Wright won the Best Actor Award at the Santa Monica Film Festival for his portrayal of John Shed in the indie film Dumbarton Bridge. He has played roles on several television programs but is best known for playing Mr. Morgan, Yankees co-worker of character George Costanza (Jason Alexander) on Seinfeld; and the hybrid alien Tuvix in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Tuvix".

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2018
Spell

as    Edmund

2018
Higher Power

as    Tom Davis

2016
Within

as    Detective Pascal

2015
The Diabolical

as    Curtis (as Thomas Wright)

2015
Stockholm, Pennsylvania

as    Detective Timms

2013
Things Never Said

as    Daniel

2010
The Cursed

as    Willie Gar

2005
American Fusion

as    Dr. Lee / Lethal Killah

2005
Chasing Ghosts

as    Tom Shields

2003
Betrayal

as    Detective Stan

2002
Contagion

as    Tom Brenner

2001
Layover

as    Detective Mills

1998
Martial Law

as    Capt. Benjamin Winship

1997
Murder at 1600

as    Cooper

1995
Excessive Force II: Force on Force

as    Grant Thompson

1995
White Man's Burden

as    Lionel

1995
Tales from the Hood

as    Martin Moorehouse (segment "Rogue Cop Revelation")

1993
Weekend at Bernie's II

as    Charles

1993
Acting on Impulse

as    Dave Byers

1992
Past Midnight

as    Lee Samuels

1990
Marked for Death

as    Charles

1990
Street Hunter

as    Riley