This handsome, sturdy stage-trained performer worked in regional theater and on and off-Broadway before landing the starring role as the radiant but doomed young graffiti writer-turned-fine artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in the biopic "Basquiat" (1996). Painter-filmmaker Julian Schnabel cast Wright in the role because the actor's relative obscurity brought little baggage to the general public's…
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