Richard William Wheaton III was born on July 29,1972 and is an American actor and writer.
56 Facts About Wil Wheaton
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Wil Wheaton portrayed Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gordie Lachance in the film Stand by Me, Joey Trotta in Toy Soldiers, and Bennett Hoenicker in Flubber.
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Wil Wheaton appeared regularly as a fictionalized version of himself on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory and in the roles of Fawkes on The Guild, Colin Mason on Leverage, and Dr Isaac Parrish on Eureka.
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Wil Wheaton was the host and co-creator of the YouTube board game show TableTop.
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Wil Wheaton has narrated numerous audio books, including Ready Player One and Ready Player Two.
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Wil Wheaton has a brother, Jeremy, and a sister, Amy, both of whom appeared uncredited in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "When the Bough Breaks".
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Wil Wheaton stated that his parents forced him to become an actor.
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Wil Wheaton made his acting debut in the television film A Long Way Home, which starred Timothy Hutton.
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Wil Wheaton voiced the character of Martin in the animated film The Secret of NIMH, the film adaptation of Robert C O'Brien's book Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
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Wil Wheaton appeared in Hambone and Hillie, The Buddy System, and The Last Starfighter.
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Wil Wheaton first gained widespread attention for his work in Stand by Me, the film adaptation of Stephen King's novella The Body.
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In Stand by Me, Wil Wheaton played the lead role of Gordie Lachance, a 12-year-old storyteller mourning the loss of his elder brother.
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Wil Wheaton played Wesley Crusher, a "boy genius and Starfleet hopeful", during the first four seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Wil Wheaton appeared in an additional four episodes of the remaining three seasons.
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Wil Wheaton commented about his critics in a 2004 interview for WebTalk Radio:.
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Wil Wheaton left Star Trek: The Next Generation due to concerns over how the production team addressed a scheduling conflict related to his wish to appear in the 1989 film, Valmont.
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Wil Wheaton returned to Star Trek in 2002 and 2022, reprising his Wesley Crusher role in cameo appearances in Star Trek: Nemesis, and in the season 2 finale of Star Trek: Picard.
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Wil Wheaton played Joey Trotta in the action film Toy Soldiers.
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Wil Wheaton has worked as a voice actor in animation, video games and audiobooks, beginning with the role of Martin Brisby in The Secret of NIMH at age 10.
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Wil Wheaton took upon the anime roles of Yakumo in Kurokami: The Animation, Menma in Naruto, Hans in Slayers Evolution-R, Aaron Terzieff in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn.
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Wil Wheaton voiced the villainous John Juniper in the video game, I Expect You to Die 2: The Spy and the Liar.
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Wil Wheaton appeared as himself in a skit on nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot's 2008 album Final Boss attempting to be a rapper, whose rhymes only involved shellfish.
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Wil Wheaton was a contestant on a 2001 episode of The Weakest Link featuring Star Trek actors attempting to win money for charity.
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Wil Wheaton has made guest appearances on the November 23,2007, episode of the TV series Numb3rs, and the October 22,2008, episode of the series Criminal Minds, and appeared in Internet presentations, including a cameo in a comedy sketch for LoadingReadyRun, and the May 30,2008, episode of the Internet series Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show.
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From 2009 to 2011, Wil Wheaton appeared in seasons 3,4, and 5 of the web series The Guild as Fawkes, the leader for a rival guild known as Axis of Anarchy.
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Wil Wheaton appears in seasons 2,3, and 4 of the television series Leverage, as rival computer hacker Colin "Chaos" Mason, antagonist to Leverage team hacker Alec Hardison.
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Wil Wheaton appeared as a fictionalized version of himself in 17 episodes of the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, starting in season 3, episode 5: "The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary".
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Wil Wheaton appears in 12 episodes in a recurring, guest-starring role on Eureka, playing Dr Isaac Parrish, the head of the Non-Lethal Weapons Lab at Global Dynamics and a thorn in Fargo's side.
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Wil Wheaton played Alexander Rook in the Syfy TV series Dark Matter, based on the eponymous comic book.
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From September 2006 to September 2007, Wil Wheaton hosted a Revision3 syndicated video podcast called InDigital along with Jessica Corbin and Hahn Choi.
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Wil Wheaton hosted a NASA video on the Mars Curiosity rover which landed on Monday August 6,2012.
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Wil Wheaton has hosted "2nd Watch", interviews with cast members and producers of the science-fiction series Falling Skies that appears online after each episode.
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Wil Wheaton has hosted Star Trek aftershow The Ready Room since the second season in 2020.
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In 2003, Wil Wheaton mentioned his love for the game of poker on his blog.
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On June 23,2005, Wil Wheaton accepted an invitation to join Team PokerStars.
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Wil Wheaton went on to play in that year's World Series of Poker and was the guest speaker for the 2005 BARGE Banquet.
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Wil Wheaton starred in the Kickstarter-funded game There Came an Echo by Iridium Studios.
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Nintendo of America announced on Twitter that Wil Wheaton would be voicing Abraham Lincoln in Code Name: STEAM.
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Wil Wheaton announced in February 2015 that he was chosen to provide voiceover talent for the strategy role-playing video game Firefly Online, a game based on Joss Whedon's Firefly sci-fi franchise.
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Wil Wheaton has spoken out against misogyny in video game culture, and wrote a profile of Anita Sarkeesian for the 2015 Time 100.
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Wil Wheaton has recorded several of his non-self-published books as downloadable audiobooks.
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Wil Wheaton provided the voice-over for the digital gamebook Trial of the Clone.
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Wil Wheaton has performed improvisational and sketch comedy at the ACME Comedy Theater in Hollywood.
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Wil Wheaton contributes regularly to the Los Angeles-based Metroblogging site.
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In winter 2003, Wil Wheaton signed to publisher Tim O'Reilly with a three-book contract.
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Wil Wheaton has since written about his bitterness regarding how the book was marketed, believing it was pitched as a Star Trek book when he intended it as more of a personal memoir.
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Later that same year, Wil Wheaton released Memories of the Future: Volume 1, a humorous critique, as well as an account of Wil Wheaton's own experiences with, and memories of, the first thirteen episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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In 2017, Wil Wheaton wrote the short story "Laina" for the Star Wars anthology From a Certain Point of View.
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In 2022, Wil Wheaton published Still Just a Geek, an annotated memoir that includes extensive author's commentary on Just a Geek, as well as previously unpublished work.
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Wil Wheaton's parents were very offended by the article, and he posted a lengthy apology on his site and an interview in which his parents clarified their political views.
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Wil Wheaton campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election.
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Wil Wheaton has been vocal about criticizing other entertainers he disagrees with, such as Dave Chappelle, after his "The Closer" special, and PewDiePie, after a Facebook algorithm recommended a PewDiePie fan group to Wil Wheaton.
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Wil Wheaton married Anne Prince on November 7,1999, and lives in Arcadia, California, with her and her two sons from a previous relationship.
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Wil Wheaton was roommates with Chris Hardwick while they were both students at UCLA.
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In January 2021, Wil Wheaton announced he had been sober from alcohol for five years.
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Wil Wheaton reached the finals, defeating Troian Bellisario and Hasan Minhaj in the quarterfinals, and John Michael Higgins and Joel Kim Booster in the semifinals.