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Tom Wright
Known for: ActingHarold 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 50
Daisy Jones & the Six
as Teddy Price 
Within
+5
as Detective Pascal 
Murder at 1600
+5
as Cooper 
Matewan
as Tom 
Summer Camp
+5
as Mike 
Creepshow 2
+13
as The Hitchhiker 
The Locksmith
+2
as Chief Stern 
Barbershop
+11
as Detective Williams 
Marked for Death
+2
as Charles 
Reversal of Fortune
+3
as Jack 
Gridlock'd
+2
as Koolaid 
The Pentagon Wars
+3
as Major William Sayers 
Tales from the Hood
+7
as Martin Moorehouse (segment "Rogue Cop Revelation") 
Troop Beverly Hills
+5
as James Shakar 
Higher Power
+7
as Tom Davis 
Weekend at Bernie's II
as Charles 
Amityville: A New Generation
+10
as Morgue Attendant 
as Farley Potts 
Walkaway Joe
+11
Director 
Men of War
+11
as Jamaal 
White Man's Burden
as Lionel 
Message from the King
as Waylon 
+18 
Palmetto
+3
as John Renick 
The Diabolical
+12
as Curtis (as Thomas Wright) 
Breakdance Academy
+7
as Pete 
Betrayal
+4
as Detective Stan 
That's Amor
as Henry 
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
as Detective Timms 
The Divorce Party
+5
as Sacks 
Excessive Force II: Force on Force
+2
as Grant Thompson 
Layover
+2
as Detective Mills 
Alphabet City
+3
as Chauffeur 
Rebirth
as The Expert 
The Secrets of Emily Blair
+7
as Detective Gorodetsky 
Acting on Impulse
+8
as Dave Byers 
A Beautiful Soul
+5
as Brother Anthony Clark 
Honeydripper
as Cool Breeze 
The Neighborhood
+1
as Jim Beam, Bourbon 
A Brother's Honor
as Ben Bradford 
Striking Range
+2
as John Hatem 
Past Midnight
+2
as Lee Samuels 
P.S. Your Cat is Dead!
as Fred Gable 
Street Hunter
as Riley 
Rift
as Lietenant Neal 
Things Never Said
+8
as Daniel 
The Container
Director 
Contagion
+10
as Tom Brenner 
The Cursed
+6
as Willie Gar 
The Imposter
as Popeye