Tom Wright (born 29 November 1952; age 72) is the highly-prolific actor who played Tuvix in the Star Trek: Voyager second season episode "Tuvix". He also went on to appear as Ghrath in the Star Trek: Enterprise fourth season episode "Storm Front".
Wright was considered for the role of Benjamin Sisko in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. (citation needed • edit)
Born in Englewood, New Jersey, Wright began his screen acting career with small roles in a number of feature films. One of his earliest film credits was 1980's Midnight Madness, which also featured fellow Englewood-born Star Trek alum John Fiedler (as well as Charlie Brill and Georgia Schmidt). This was followed with a supporting role in The Brother from Another Planet (1984, starring Joe Morton, with Bill Cobbs and Liane Curtis). Wright has since gone on to appear in several more films from Sayles, including Matewan (1987, with Gordon Clapp and Bob Gunton), City of Hope (1991, with Jude Ciccolella, Joe Morton, Lawrence Tierney and Kevin Tighe), Passion Fish (1992, starring Alfre Woodard, with Angela Bassett), and Sunshine State (2002, starring Angela Bassett, with Gordon Clapp, Bill Cobbs and Miguel Ferrer).
Other films he appeared in throughout the 1980s include Streetwalkin' (1985, with Julie Newmar), Creepshow 2 (1987), I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988, with Bernie Casey, Dawnn Lewis and Clarence Williams III), Troop Beverly Hills (1989, with David Gautreaux), and Heart of Dixie (1989, starring Virginia Madsen, Barbara Babcock and Kurtwood Smith). His later film credits include Reversal of Fortune (1990), Marked for Death (1990), Past Midnight (1991, with Clancy Brown), White Man's Burden (1995, with Bumper Robinson), Forget Paris (1995, with Robert Costanzo and Clint Howard), Murder at 1600 (1997, with Daniel Benzali, Ronny Cox, Charles Rocket and Harris Yulin), The Prime Gig (2000, with Wallace Shawn, Brian George and Pat Healy), Barbershop (2002), Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004, with Robert Wisdom), Chasing Ghosts (2005, with Patrick Kilpatrick, Mark Rolston and Sean Whalen), and World Trade Center (2006, with Jude Ciccolella and Donna Murphy). He also appeared in Tales from the Hood (1995, starring Corbin Bernsen, with Clarence Williams III), Menno's Mind (1996, with Corbin Bernsen, Billy Campbell, Michael Dorn, Bill Erwin and Robert Picardo), and starred in the 2001 sci-fi film Contagion, along with Jeffrey Combs, Megan Gallagher and Andrew Hawkes.
His non-Trek television credits include an appearance in Kennedy (1983, with John Glover and Kelsey Grammer), a regular role on All My Children from 1984 through 1985, a guest appearance on A Man Named Hawk starring Avery Brooks, and an episode of Roseanne which also featured Madge Sinclair. He also appeared in China Beach (1989 & 1991, starring his Voyager co-star Robert Picardo, Megan Gallagher, Jeff Kober, and Concetta Tomei).
During the 1990s, Wright was a regular on Santa Barbara in 1992 (as Lt. Vic Boswell), Extreme in 1995 (co-starring Dey Young), and Martial Law from 1998 through 1999. Series on which he made guest appearances include Life Goes On (starring Bill Smitrovich and Ray Buktenica), L.A. Law (1993, starring Corbin Bernsen and Larry Drake, with Robert Curtis Brown, Samantha Eggar and Lawrence Tierney), and several episodes of Seinfeld, including one where series regular and fellow Voyager guest star Jason Alexander offends his character by suggesting he looks like boxer "Sugar" Ray Leonard. Three of the episodes featuring Wright also guest-starred Ian Abercrombie, with one of those also featuring Robert Hooks. Richard Herd appeared in a fourth.
Later TV credits include two episodes of NYPD Blue with Gordon Clapp and Sharon Lawrence, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2001, starring Paul Guilfoyle, with Glenn Morshower), The District (2001, with Roger Aaron Brown, Joanna Cassidy and "Storm Front" co-star John Fleck), Boomtown (2003, starring Neal McDonough, with LeVar Burton, Fran Bennett and Vanessa Williams), JAG (2005, with David Andrews, Ivar Brogger, Scott Lawrence and Zoe McLellan), and 24 (2006, with Jude Ciccolella and Gregory Itzin). Additionally, he had roles in the TV movies The Pentagon Wars (1998) with Kelsey Grammer, Sam Anderson, Bruce French, Randy Oglesby and Richard Riehle) and Funny Valentines (1999) starring Alfre Woodard. He has also guest-starred on such series as ER (starring Eriq La Salle), Chicago Hope (starring Jayne Brook), Everwood, The O.C., Cold Case, Numbers, and House.
Wright starred with Brad Dourif in Sinner (2007). He also had a role in The Onion Movie (2008, with Len Cariou and Daniel Dae Kim). He also appeared in Major Crimes (2016, starring Jonathan Del Arco, with Dawnn Lewis).
External links[]
- Tom Wright at the Internet Movie Database
- Tom Wright at Wikipedia