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Tom Wright

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Tom Wright

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Harold Thomas Wright is an American television and theatre actor. He has appeared in over 40 stage productions on and off Broadway. Wright began his acting career as an original member of The People's Light and Theater Company outside of Philadelphia. He 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, where he starred 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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