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Tom Wright

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1952-11-29 (Age: 74)

Place of Birth

Englewood, New Jersey, USA

Tom Wright

Biography

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".

Filmography (101)

⭐ 5.3 Role: Mike

Summer Camp

2024
⭐ 5.9 Role: Chief Stern

The Locksmith

2023
⭐ 5.1 Role: Henry

That's Amor

2022
⭐ 5.0 Role: Principal West

Gully

2021
⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

The Beanfield

2020
⭐ 6.4 Role: Ben Bradford

A Brother's Honor

2019
⭐ 0 Role: George Haliday

Still Happy

2019
⭐ 6.5 Role: Donald Cooper

#truth

2019
⭐ 5.0 Role: Sacks

The Divorce Party

2019
⭐ 5.0 Role: Edmund

Spell

2018
⭐ 5.1 Role: Tom Davis

Higher Power

2018
⭐ 5.3 Role: George Ashland

Inhumans: The First Chapter

2017
⭐ 3.2 Role: Jim Beam, Bourbon

The Neighborhood

2017
⭐ 6.1 Role: Military Attache

Transformers: The Last Knight

2017
⭐ 6.2 Role: Waylon

Message from the King

2017