Background
Tom Wright was born on November 29, 1952 in Englewood, New Jersey.
Tom Wright was born on November 29, 1952 in Englewood, New Jersey.
West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
Wright has appeared in over 40 stage productions both on and off-Broadway. Tom also spent four years at the National Playwrights Conference and two summers at the Sundance Institute. 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 Louisiana Jeune Lune in Minneapolis starring in Farthest From The Sun with Steve Guttenberg.
In 1987, he played a hitch-hiker 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.
Since then he co-starred in another Sayles feature, Honeydripper. 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.
He began his acting career as an original member of The People"s Light and Theater Company outside of Philadelphia.