Tom Wright (born November 29, 19?? in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American film, television and theater actor. November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Map highlighting Englewoods location within Bergen County. ...

Theater 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 Tom 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 Lousiville, 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 Juene Lune in Minneapolis starring in Furthest From The Sun with Steve Guttenberg. This article is about the play and the film based on it, for other meanings see A Taste of Honey (disambiguation). ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Yale Repertory Theatre at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut was founded by Robert Brustein, dean of the Yale School of Drama in 1966, with the goal of facilitating a meaningful collaboration between theatre professionals and talented students. ... Hartford Stage is one of the leading resident theatres in the nation, known internationally for entertaining and enlightening audiences with a wide range of the best of world drama, from classics to provocative new plays and musicals and neglected works from the past. ... Steve Guttenberg (left) in Three Men and a Baby. ...

Film career

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 Brother from Another Planet. He is set to co-star in Sayles’ next feature, Honeydripper. Barbershop is a motion picture directed by Tim Story, produced by State Street Pictures, and released by MGM on September 13, 2002. ... Barbershop 2: Back in Business is a 2004 comedy film sequel to 2002s Barbershop, from the writing/producing team Robert Teitel and George Tillman Jr. ... OShea Jackson (born June 15, 1969 in South Central, Los Angeles, California), is a rapper, actor and film director, who has legally adopted his stage name, Ice Cube. ... Angela Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an Emmy and Academy Award-nominated, and Golden Globe winning American actress. ... Sunshine State is a 2002 American comedy-drama film written and directed by John Sayles and starring an ensemble cast that features Angela Bassett, Edie Falco, Jane Alexander, Alan King, Timothy Hutton, Mary Steenburgen and Bill Cobbs. ... Photo of John Sayles by Robert Birnbaum John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an independent American film director and writer who frequently takes a small part in his own and other indie films. ... Passion Fish is a 1992 film which tells the story of a soap opera star, paralyzed in a car accident, who is forced to live with her family and rely upon a series of nurses, forcing each of them to leave her employ until one shows up guaranteed to stay. ... City of Hope refers to many things. ... Matewan is a 1987 drama by John Sayles, illustrating the events of a coal mine-workers strike and attempt to unionize in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia. ...

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.

Tom has played roles on several television programs but is best known for playing Mr. Morgan, Yankees co-worker of character George Constanza (Jason Alexander) on Seinfeld. Jason Alexander (born Jason Scott Greenspan on September 23, 1959) is a Jewish American television, cinema and musical theatre actor, best known for his role as George Costanza on the hit television series Seinfeld. ... This article is about the sitcom. ...

Selected filmography

• Sinner (2007)
• World Trade Center (2006)
• Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
• White Rush (2003)
• Barbershop (2002)
• Sunshine State (2002)
• Funny Valentines (1999)
• Dumbarton Bridge (1999)
• Palmetto (1998)
• The Pentagon Wars (1998)
• Murder at 1600 (1997)
• Gridlock'd (1996)
• White Man's Burden (1995)
• Forget Paris (1995)
• Passion Fish (1992)
• City of Hope (1991)
• Reversal of Fortune (1990)
• I'm Gonna Get You Sucka (1988)
• Creepshow 2 (1987)
• Matewan (1987)
• The Brother from Another Planet (1984)

Sinner is a 2007 drama film directed by Marc Benardout. ... World Trade Center (also spelled as World Trade Centre) is a 2006 dramatic film based on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers of New York City, released by Paramount Pictures on August 9. ... Barbershop 2: Back in Business is a 2004 comedy film sequel to 2002s Barbershop, from the writing/producing team Robert Teitel and George Tillman Jr. ... Barbershop is a motion picture directed by Tim Story, produced by State Street Pictures, and released by MGM on September 13, 2002. ... Sunshine State is a 2002 American comedy-drama film written and directed by John Sayles and starring an ensemble cast that features Angela Bassett, Edie Falco, Jane Alexander, Alan King, Timothy Hutton, Mary Steenburgen and Bill Cobbs. ... Palmetto is a 1998 film based on the novel Just Another Sucker by James Hadley Chase. ... The Pentagon Wars is a 1998 HBO film, starring Kelsey Grammer, Cary Elwes and Richard Schiff, based on a book of the same name. ... Gridlockd is a 1997 film starring Tupac Shakur, Tim Roth, and Thandie Newton, and directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall. ... White Mans Burden is a 1996 dramatic film about racism in an alternate America where African Americans and Caucasian Americans have reversed cultural roles. ... Forget Paris is a 1995 movie starring Billy Crystal as a NBA referee. ... Passion Fish is a 1992 film which tells the story of a soap opera star, paralyzed in a car accident, who is forced to live with her family and rely upon a series of nurses, forcing each of them to leave her employ until one shows up guaranteed to stay. ... DVD cover for Reversal of Fortune. ... Im Gonna Git You Sucka is a 1988 comedy feature film written, directed by and starring Keenen Ivory Wayans. ... Creepshow 2 DVD cover Creepshow 2 is a 1987 film directed by Michael Gornick. ... Matewan is a 1987 drama by John Sayles, illustrating the events of a coal mine-workers strike and attempt to unionize in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia. ... The Brother from Another Planet is a 1984 film written and directed by John Sayles. ...

External links

• Tom Wright at the Internet Movie Database
• Tom Wright article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.