Biography
Michael Wright (born April 6, 1956) is an American film and television actor, who is best known for his role as Eddie Kane, Jr. in the 1991 Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats. Wright's body of work in television includes the 1983 NBC science fiction miniseries V, the 1984 sequel "V: The Final Battle" and on "V: The Series" as Elias Taylor, TV series "Miami Vice" 1987 episode "The Savage", and on the 1997 HBO series Oz as Omar White from 2001-2003. And he played "Clinton", the leader of The...
Known For
Complete Filmography

2 Aces and a Dirty Heart
2017
as Redds
Two hustlers come up the hard way. When a group of savage stick up boys start terrorizing the city.

D'Curse
2013
as Officer Ruda
NYPD cop Ruda is a cop during the day and a religious Santerio (High Ranking Priest) of "Black Magic" by night. A curse is placed on the NYPD by the m...

Jesse
2011
as Juan
Nassau County, New York Police detective Jesse turns vigilante as she investigates her brother's murder and enters into a world of crime, corruption, ...

Before I Self Destruct
2009
as First Victim
A coming of age story about an inner-city youth raised by a hardworking single mother. When his dream of becoming a basketball player fails to materia...

Diminished Capacity
2008
as McCormick
A Chicago journalist suffering from memory loss takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural hometown, where he bonds with his Alzheimer's impai...

Hardrock
2007
After a prominent judge's daughter dies from taking contaminated Ecstasy, the ensuing political scandal brings a world of grief to the city's street d...

Raving
2007
as Security Guard
In New York City, a young woman forms a curious bond with a lonely older man after they encounter one another on a street corner.
Coalition
2006
as Lou
A realistic depiction of how New York's lucrative construction business is systematically shaken down by minority non-union labor.

El Cantante
2006
as Shooting Gallery Man
The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.

The Interpreter
2005
as Marcus
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to i...

Downtown: A Street Tale
2004
as Rudy
A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters, ...

Piñero
2001
as Edgar Bowser
"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the gay poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pr...

Point Blank
1998
as Sonny
Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapee...

Money Talks
1997
as Aaron
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.

The Cottonwood
1996
as Simon Z
Four friends get three million dollars and decide to construct a screenplay of 52 stolen scenes from the greatest movies ever made.

Confessions of a Hitman
1994
as Charley
A former hitman named Bruno steals some cash from his mobster uncle. He plans to go to Tahiti, but things go wrong and he finds himself headed for Veg...

Sugar Hill
1994
as Raynathan Skuggs
In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner and brother to lead a straight life with his girl...

The Five Heartbeats
1991
as Eddie
In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky ...

The Principal
1987
as Victor Duncan
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school...

Bedtime Eyes
1987
Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second rate Japanese jazz singer and a black Ame...

The Laundromat
1985
as Shooter Stevens
Two lonely women coincide at midnight in a laundromat, where they reveal their secrets.

V: The Final Battle
1984
as Elias Taylor

Streamers
1983
as Carlyle
Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is gay.

Benny's Place
1982
as Jimmy Mills
Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.

Dream House
1981
as Mace
Vacationing Georgia construction worker (John Schneider) meets and falls for Manhattan's comely Director of Urban Renewal (Marilu Henner) and despite ...

We're Fighting Back
1981
as Melvin Gilford
Inspired by the exploits of New York's Guardian Angels, which began as a band of streetwise young people who formed an anti-crime subway patrol and we...

The Wanderers
1979
as Clinton
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by R...

Street Justice
N/A
as Ernie Rays
When two detectives are fed up with the system that's not working, they seek the help of a martial arts master to bring Justice to the Streets.