Raymond Herbert Wise was born on August 20,1947 and is an American actor.
42 Facts About Ray Wise
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Ray Wise is best known for his role as Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks and its prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Vice President Hal Gardner in 24, The Devil in Reaper, and Marvin in Fresh Off the Boat, as well as his film roles in Swamp Thing, RoboCop, and Jeepers Creepers 2.
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Ray Wise is of Romanian descent on his maternal side.
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Ray Wise grew up in a religious family; in the past he went to a Romanian Baptist church in Akron and later moved to a Methodist church.
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In 1987, Ray Wise played Tom Gunther, Catherine Chandler's boyfriend, in the pilot episode of the TV series Beauty and the Beast.
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Ray Wise is best known for his role as Laura Palmer's father Leland in Twin Peaks.
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Ray Wise made an appearance as Liko in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Who Watches the Watchers", later playing Arturis in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Hope and Fear".
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Ray Wise appeared in the Season 7 episode "The Flame" of Diagnosis: Murder.
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In 1995, Ray Wise was reunited with Twin Peaks castmate Sherilyn Fenn in the NBC telemovie Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story.
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Ray Wise starred as the Devil on the TV series Reaper.
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Ray Wise has appeared on a number of political-themed television series and films.
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Ray Wise briefly appeared on The West Wing as California governor Gabriel "Gabe" Tillman, and played Vice President Hal Gardner on 24 in 2006.
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Ray Wise has guest starred in two episodes of The Closer, as lawyer Tom Blanchard.
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Ray Wise starred in Charmed as the upper level demon Ludlow, who runs a school for the Source Of All Evil in the episode "Lost and Bound".
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Ray Wise had a small role in one episode of the sixth season of Dawson's Creek, playing Roger Stepateck.
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Ray Wise played the lead as Avery in a psychological thriller, Iodine, in 2009.
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Ray Wise was a guest star on Psych and in 2010, in a special episode of Psych titled "Dual Spires", he joined his fellow Twin Peaks alumni Dana Ashbrook, Robyn Lively, Lenny Von Dohlen, Sheryl Lee, Catherine E Coulson, and Sherilyn Fenn in a spoof of Twin Peaks.
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In 2010, Ray Wise guest-starred as fictitious sports agent Bobby Fox alongside a special guest appearance from real life ex-Yankees manager Joe Torre on the TV series Castle, in the Season 2 episode "Suicide Squeeze".
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Ray Wise guest starred on Dollhouse as Howard, a higher-up in the Dollhouse organization.
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Ray Wise appeared in Season 4 of Chuck and in the FX television show Wilfred as a popular TV personality.
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Ray Wise was cast in the part of Robin Scherbatsky's father on How I Met Your Mother in December 2010, and ultimately appeared in 6 episodes of the series in total.
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Ray Wise made a cameo appearance as a modeling agent in episode four of season 2 of Workaholics.
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That same year, Ray Wise played John Nelson, A disturbed ex-mortician obsessed with trying to help his wife Linda in the Criminal Minds Season 8 episode "God Complex".
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Ray Wise prominently appeared in the music video "Wishes" for the group Beach House.
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Ray Wise appeared as Andy Rooney parody Skip Reming on Newsreaders.
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Ray Wise had a recurring role as Marvin in the first two seasons of Fresh Off the Boat before being promoted to series regular for seasons three through six.
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Ray Wise appeared in the first two seasons of Marvel's Agent Carter as comic book character Hugh Jones.
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In 2016, Ray Wise appeared in the Netflix series Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.
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Ray Wise portrayed Jack Smith, an old friend of Richard Gilmore, who becomes the boyfriend or companion of widow Emily Gilmore.
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Ray Wise played the character of Dr Alec Holland in the 1982 film Swamp Thing, directed by Wes Craven and based upon the comic book series of the same name.
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In 1985, Wise was cast as Sol Gann, father to Natty Gann in the Disney film The Journey of Natty Gann, directed by Jeremy Paul Kagan, and then appeared as henchman Leon C Nash in RoboCop.
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Ray Wise had roles in Season of Fear, The Rift, Bob Roberts, Grey Knight and Rising Sun.
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Ray Wise appeared in Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie as Dr Doone Struts, the leader of the Shrim Healing Center.
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Ray Wise appeared in Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End as Franks.
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Ray Wise was in Brother's Keeper and was in Suburban Gothic.
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In 2014 Ray Wise appeared in the documentary horror film Digging Up the Marrow under the direction of Adam Green.
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In 2016, Ray Wise starred as attorney Peter Kane in the film God's Not Dead 2, who represents the ACLU in its fight to have the protagonist, Grace Wesley, convicted of proselytizing in a public school.
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Ray Wise plays Commissioner Gordon in the animated film adaptation of The Killing Joke.
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In 2014, Ray Wise starred in an original Chipotle web series titled Farmed and Dangerous; he played Buck Marshall in the satirical black comedy-type situation comedy.
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In 2018, Ray Wise made a guest appearance in the second volume of Hyper RPG's horror anthology RPG, 10 Candles, explaining to the party the mysteries of the town of Kolob.
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Ray Wise has been married to his wife, film producer Kass McClaskey, since 1978.
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Ray Wise was previously married to actress Juliet Burr from 1974 until their divorce in 1977.