Tom Wright
Known For
Acting
Born
1952-11-29 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA
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".
Most Known For
The Rookie
as Colin Hall
House
as Dr. Pilcher
NCIS
as Sam Kelleher
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Jake Daniels
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Robert Harris
Modern Family
as Security Guard
The Mentalist
as Kevin Rome
Seinfeld
as Mr Morgan
Seinfeld
as Mr. Morgan
24
as Rear Admiral Kirkland
24
as Admiral Kirkland
Castle
as Fats Shepherd
Grimm
as Spencer Harrison
9-1-1
as Buck's Doctor
Star Trek: Voyager
as Tuvix
Everwood
as Carl's Lawyer
ER
as Wharton
Rizzoli & Isles
as Walt (Boston Pilgrims' attorney)
Star Trek: Enterprise
as Ghrath
Ghost Whisperer
as Dave McKey