Tom Wright

Tom Wright is the highly-prolific actor who played Tuvix in the second season episode . He also went on to appear as Ghrath in the fourth season episode .
Wright was considered for the role of Benjamin Sisko in .
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 (1984). Wright has since gone on to appear in several more films from Sayles, including (1987, with Gordon Clapp and Bob Gunton), (1991, with Jude Ciccolella, Lawrence Tierney, and Kevin Tighe), (1992, starring Alfre Woodard), and (2002, with Gordon Clapp, Bill Cobbs, and Miguel Ferrer).
Other films he appeared in throughout the 1980s include (1985, with Julie Newmar), (1987), (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 (1990), (1990), (1991, with Clancy Brown), (1995, with Bumper Robinson), (1995, with Robert Costanzo and Clint Howard), (1997, with Daniel Benzali, Ronny Cox, Charles Rocket, and Harris Yulin), (2000, with Wallace Shawn and Pat Healy), (2002), (2004, with Robert Wisdom), (2005, with Patrick Kilpatrick, Mark Rolston, and Sean Whalen), and (2006, with Jude Ciccolella and Donna Murphy). He also appeared in (1995, with Corbin Bernsen and Clarence Williams III, appeared in 1996's Menno's Mind with Corbin Bernsen, William O. 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 (1983, with John Glover and Kelsey Grammer), a regular role on from 1984 through 1985, a guest appearance on starring Avery Brooks, and an episode of Roseanne which also featured Madge Sinclair. He also appeared in two episodes of China Beach (one in 1989 and another in 1991), on which his Voyager co-star Robert Picardo was a regular, as were Megan Gallagher, Jeff Kober, and Concetta Tomei.
During the 1990s, Wright was a regular on in 1992 (as Lt. Vic Boswell), Extreme in 1995 (co-starring Dey Young), and from 1998 through 1999. Series on which he made guest appearances include (starring Bill Smitrovich and Ray Buktenica), with Corbin Bernsen and Larry Drake (in an episode also guest-starring Robert Curtis Brown, Samantha Eggar, and Lawrence Tierney), and several episodes of , 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 with Gordon Clapp and Sharon Lawrence, an episode of CSI with Glenn Morshower, an episode of The District with Roger Aaron Brown, Joanna Cassidy and "Storm Front" co-star John Fleck, an episode of Neal McDonough's Boomtown (guest-starring LeVar Burton, Fran Bennett, and Vanessa Williams), an episode of with David Andrews, Ivar Brogger, Scott Lawrence, and Zoe McLellan, and an episode of 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 , , Everwood, , , , and .
Wright starred with Brad Dourif in (2007). He also had a role in (2008, with Len Cariou and Daniel Dae Kim). He also made an appearance in an episode of Major Crimes in 2016, a series which starred Jonathan Del Arco and in an episode which also guest starred Dawnn Lewis.
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