Early life

Tom Wright was born on November 29, 1952 in Englewood, New Jersey.

Career

Wright has appeared in over 40 stage productions both on and off-Broadway. He began his acting career as an original member of The People's Light and Theater Company outside of Philadelphia. Tom 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.

Filmography

• Deadbeat (1977)
• Underground U.S.A. (1980)
• Subway Riders (1981)
• I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
• The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
• Matewan (1987)
• Creepshow 2 (1987)
• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
• Marked for Death (1990)
• Reversal of Fortune (1990)
• City of Hope (1991)
• Passion Fish (1992)
• Weekend at Bernie's II (1993)
• Forget Paris (1995)
• White Man's Burden (1995)
• Tales from the Hood (1995)
• Excessive Force II: Force on Force (1995)
• Gridlock'd (1996)
• Murder at 1600 (1997)
• The Pentagon Wars (1998)
• Palmetto (1998)
• Dumbarton Bridge (1999)
• Funny Valentines (1999)
• Chain of Command (2000)
• Sunshine State (2002)
• Barbershop (2002)
• White Rush (2003)
• Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
• World Trade Center (2006)
• Sinner (2007)
• Honeydripper (2007)
• Burning Palms (2009)
• Stanley DeBrock (2010)
• Beyond the Lights (2014)

TV appearances

[ Source: Wikipedia ]