1. Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III was born on July 29,1972 and is an American actor and writer.
46 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 The Martian.
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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; he is currently estranged from them.
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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 had a few lines in Starfighter which were ultimately cut from the theatrical release, but Wheaton is still visible in several scenes.
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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 2002,2022 and 2024, reprising his Wesley Crusher role in cameo appearances in Star Trek: Nemesis, the season 2 finale of Star Trek: Picard, and as a voice actor in the second season of the animated show Star Trek: Prodigy.
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Wil Wheaton played Joey Trotta in the action film Toy Soldiers.
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Wil Wheaton regularly portrayed a fictionalized version of himself on The Big Bang Theory, becoming a recurring guest star and then side character on the show.
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In June 2024, Wil Wheaton announced that he was retired from on-screen acting.
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Wil Wheaton voiced the role of Martin Brisby in The Secret of NIMH in 1981.
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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 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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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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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 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 been a narrator for dozens of audiobooks, including his own works.
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Wil Wheaton has been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award multiple times, and received an Earphones Award from AudioFile magazine.
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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 is the author of Dancing Barefoot and Just a Geek.
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Wil Wheaton released a revised follow-up, Still Just a Geek, in 2022.
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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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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 Chris attended 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 criticized Dave Chappelle for making jokes about transgender people during Chappelle's comedy film The Closer.
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Wil Wheaton said popular comics had influenced him to think homophobic humor was acceptable when he was young.
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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.
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Wil Wheaton finished in third place, behind winner Ike Barinholtz and runner-up Patton Oswalt, earning $100,000.
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Wil Wheaton campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election.
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In September 2024, Wil Wheaton joined other actors from the Star Trek franchise on a livestream to support the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 United States presidential election.