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Richard William Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American actor. He 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. Wheaton has also appeared in recurring voice acting roles as Aqualad in Teen Titans, Cosmic Boy on the Legion of Super Heroes, and Mike Morningstar/Darkstar in the Ben 10 franchise's original continuity. He 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. Wheaton was the host and co-creator of the YouTube board game show TableTop. He has narrated numerous audio books, including Ready Player One and Ready Player Two.

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Wil Wheaton
Wheaton at the 2019 GalaxyCon Raleigh
Born	Richard William Wheaton III (1972-07-29) July 29, 1972 (age 50) Burbank, California, U.S.
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles
Occupation	Actor writer television personality blogger narrator
Years active	1980–present
Spouse	Anne Prince ​ (m. 1999)​
Children	2
Website	wilwheaton.net

Early life

Wheaton was born July 29, 1972, in Burbank, California, to Debra "Debbie" Nordean (née O'Connor), an actress, and Richard William Wheaton Jr., a medical specialist.[1][2][3] He has a brother, Jeremy, and a sister, Amy,[4] each of whom appeared uncredited in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "When the Bough Breaks".[5] Amy appeared alongside Wil in the 1987 film The Curse.[6]

As an adult, Wheaton described his father as being abusive to him as a child and his mother as being an enabler of that abuse. He also stated that his parents forced him to become an actor.[7][8]

Career

Early work and Stand By Me

Wheaton made his acting debut in the television film A Long Way Home (1981), which starred Timothy Hutton.[9] He voiced the character of Martin in the animated film The Secret of NIMH (1982), the movie adaptation of Robert C. O'Brien's book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971).[10] Wheaton also appeared in Hambone and Hillie (1983), The Buddy System (1984) (opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Susan Sarandon), and the Last Starfighter.[9]

Wheaton first gained widespread attention for his work in Stand by Me (1986), the film adaptation of Stephen King's novella The Body.[11][12][13] In Stand by Me, Wheaton played the lead role of Gordie Lachance, a 12-year-old storyteller mourning the loss of his elder brother.[13] In her review of the film, Sheila Benson of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Wheaton makes Gordie's 'sensitivity' tangible, but not effete. He's a gem".[14] In addition to being successful at the box office,[15] Stand by Me was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama[16][17] and became known as a coming-of-age classic.[18][19]

Star Trek

Wheaton played Wesley Crusher, a "boy genius and Starfleet hopeful",[20] during the first four seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation.[21] He appeared in an additional four episodes of the remaining three seasons. The Wesley Crusher character is a "polarizing" character; while some Star Trek fans love him, others are vocal about their hatred for the character.[22][21] Wheaton commented about his critics in a 2004 interview for WebTalk Radio:

Later, I determined that the people who were really, really cruel – like the Usenet weenies – really are a statistically insignificant number of people. And I know, just over the years from people who've e-mailed me at my website and people who I've talked to since I started going to Star Trek conventions again in the last five years, that there are so many more people who really enjoyed everything about the show, including my performance, including the character.[23]

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.[24][25]

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.[26]

Post-Star Trek

Wheaton played Joey Trotta in the action film Toy Soldiers (1991). After leaving Star Trek, he moved to Topeka, Kansas, to work for NewTek, where he helped to develop the Video Toaster 4000 doing product testing and quality control[27][28] and later used his public profile to serve as a technology evangelist for the product.[29]

Afterward, he returned to Los Angeles, attended acting school for five years, and then re-entered the acting world.[30][31] In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Wheaton appeared in several independent films, including the award-winning The Good Things (2001), in which he portrays a frustrated Kansas tollbooth worker.[32] For his performance in Jane White Is Sick & Twisted (2002) he received the award for Best Actor at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival.[33]

Voice work

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. His most noteworthy credits include the roles of Aqualad in the cartoons Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go!, the voice of radio journalist Richard Burns in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Kyle in the Nickelodeon cartoon, Kyle + Rosemary as well as himself and various other characters on both Family Guy and Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy. Wheaton also featured as the second Blue Beetle, Ted Kord, on Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Dr. Peter Meechum in Generator Rex, Mike Morningstar / Darkstar in Ben 10: Alien Force, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien & Ben 10: Omniverse. 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. He 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. Wheaton later collaborated with Frontalot on "Your Friend Wil", a track from the 2010 album Zero Day on the subject of what Wheaton calls "Wheaton's law": "don't be a dick".[34][35]

Wheaton has narrated a number of bestselling audiobooks, mostly in the science-fiction and fantasy category, including Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Wheaton also exists in the novel's universe, described as being joint President along with Cory Doctorow, of the OASIS User Council in the virtual world, which is the setting for much of the book) and its sequel Ready Player Two, Armada, also by Cline, Redshirts by John Scalzi, Fuzzy Nation by Scalzi, and books 6–10 of the Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny.^{[citation needed]}

Television and web

Wheaton was a contestant on a 2001 episode of The Weakest Link featuring Star Trek actors attempting to win money for charity. He 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 ("Lock Out") for LoadingReadyRun[36] (and a reprise of the same the following year, in CommodoreHustle 4), and the May 30, 2008, episode of the Internet series Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show. From 2009 to 2011, 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.[37] Wheaton credits his roles in Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show and The Guild for reigniting his career by encouraging him to seek out roles as the "Villain You Love To Hate" stock character.[38] He also 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. He made regular appearances in many web productions for Geek & Sundry, including hosting TableTop, a board game based show,[39] and Titansgrave, a roleplaying game based show.[40]

He 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" (2009). On the show, Wheaton behaves in comically petty and manipulative ways towards main character Sheldon Cooper, who regards him as an archenemy until the season 5 episode "The Russian Rocket Reaction", when they make amends and become friends. 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.[41] Wheaton also voices the character of the former scoutmaster and current sous-chef Earl Harlan in the popular dark, surreal-comedy podcast Welcome to Night Vale.^{[citation needed]}

Wheaton played Alexander Rook in the Syfy TV series Dark Matter, based on the eponymous comic book.[42]

Hosting

From September 2006 to September 2007, Wheaton hosted a Revision3 syndicated video podcast called InDigital along with Jessica Corbin and Hahn Choi. He hosted a NASA video on the Mars Curiosity rover which landed on Monday August 6, 2012.[43] He has hosted "2nd Watch", interviews with cast members and producers of the science-fiction series Falling Skies that appears online after each episode.[44] On April 3, 2014, Wheaton announced on his blog that his new show called The Wil Wheaton Project would premiere on the SyFy network at 10pm on May 27 for an initial projected run of twelve episodes.[45][46] However, on August 29, Wheaton blogged that SyFy canceled the show after only one season.[47] Wheaton has hosted Star Trek aftershow The Ready Room since the second season in 2020.[48]

Other ventures

Games

In 2003, Wheaton mentioned his love for the game of poker on his blog. The following year, he began writing more extensively about his poker-playing experiences, including stories about playing Texas hold 'em tournaments locally and in Las Vegas. Eventually, he worked up to regular play, including a run at the 2005 World Poker Tour Championships. On June 23, 2005, Wheaton accepted an invitation to join Team PokerStars.[49] He went on to play in that year's World Series of Poker and was the guest speaker for the 2005 BARGE Banquet. In June 2007, he announced he would no longer be on Team Pokerstars due to changes in the US legal system that would cause poker sites to have to focus on European and Asian markets[50] and held a farewell Pokerstars tournament on June 5, 2007, which he titled So Long and Thanks for All the Chips.[51]

Wheaton is a Dungeons & Dragons player,[52] and played during the PAX 2010 event using the 4th edition rules. Wheaton, along with webcartoonists Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik of Penny Arcade, and Scott Kurtz of PvP, played in front of a live audience. The game was hosted and recorded by Wizards of the Coast with Chris Perkins as the dungeonmaster.[53] Wheaton also played D&D 4th edition at the PAX 2011 event using the 4th edition rules, and used the D&D Next play test rules at PAX Prime 2012.^{[citation needed]}

Wheaton hosts the web series TableTop that he created with Felicia Day, in which he explains how to play various card, board, and dice games, then plays the game with celebrity guests. This web series has had over 4.5 million views[54] and raised $1.4 million on Indiegogo for its third series, a record amount for a web series at that time[55] In 2018 it appears in syndication on the TBD cable television.[56]

Wheaton starred in the Kickstarter-funded game There Came an Echo by Iridium Studios.[57] In Dungeons and Dragons Online, he became the dungeon master of the Temple of Elemental Evil quests.[58]

Nintendo of America announced on Twitter that Wheaton would be voicing Abraham Lincoln in Code Name: STEAM.[59] 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.[60] Wheaton does the voice narration on the Secret Hitler companion app for the Secret Hitler social deduction game.[61]

Wheaton has spoken out against misogyny in video game culture,[62][63] and wrote a profile of Anita Sarkeesian for the 2015 Time 100.[64]

Comic book

A fictionalized version of Wheaton was included in the comic book PS 238, in which he harbors the power of telekinesis. Wheaton's debut comic book The Guild: Fawkes, which he wrote alongside Felicia Day, was released on May 23, 2012.[65]

Audiobooks

Wheaton has recorded several of his non-self-published books as downloadable audiobooks. These include Just A Geek, Dancing Barefoot, The Happiest Days of Our Lives, Dead Trees Give No Shelter, asteraleS, kamaKiri and The Criminal Minds Production Diary, an excerpt from his book Sunken Treasure.^{[citation needed]}

Narrations

List of narrations

Title	Author	Audiobook release date	Additional narrators
Peter and Max: A Fables Novel	Bill Willingham	2009-12-08	Unknown
Homeland[66]	Cory Doctorow	2014	No
More of the Best of Science Fiction and Fantasy[67]	Orson Scott Card et al.	1999-12-15	Yes
The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of the 20th Century[67]	Greg Bear et al.	1999-12-16	Yes
The Criminal Minds Production Diary[68]	Wil Wheaton	2009-03-04	No
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer[67]	Mark Twain	2009-10-21	No
Boneshaker[69]	Cherie Priest	2010-03-18	Yes
METAtropolis: Cascadia[67]	John Scalzi et al.	2010-11-16	Yes
The Android's Dream[67]	John Scalzi	2010-12-07	No
Agent to the Stars[67]	John Scalzi	2010-12-07	No
Fuzzy Nation[70][71][67]	John Scalzi	2011-05-10	Yes
Ready Player One[72][67]	Ernest Cline	2011-08-16	No
Redshirts[73][67]	John Scalzi	2012-06-05	No
Masters of Doom[74][67]	David Kushner	2012-07-12	No
Trumps of Doom[67]	Roger Zelazny	2012-07-31	No
Prince of Chaos[67]	Roger Zelazny	2012-07-31	No
Sign of Chaos[67]	Roger Zelazny	2012-07-31	No
Knight of Shadows[67]	Roger Zelazny	2012-07-31	No
Blood of Amber[67]	Roger Zelazny	2012-07-31	No
V Wars[67]	Jonathan Maberry et al.	2012-10-10	Yes
Rip-Off![67]	John Scalzi et al.	2012-12-18	Yes
Just A Geek: The Audio Book[68]	Wil Wheaton	2013-11-23	No
Dancing Barefoot: The Audio Book[68]	Wil Wheaton	2013-12-07	No
The Happiest Days of Our Lives: The Special Extended Edition Audio Book[68]	Wil Wheaton	2013-12-10	No
Dead Pig Collector[67]	Warren Ellis	2013-12-17	No
Byways: A METAtropolis Story[75]	Tobias Buckell	2014-01-30	No
Suspect Zero[67]	Richard Kadrey	2014-07-01	No
If Ever They Happened Upon My Lair[67]	R. A. Salvatore	2014-08-11	No
Lock In[76][77][67]	John Scalzi	2014-08-26	No
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions[78]	Randall Munroe	2014-09-02	No
The Education of Brother Thaddius and Other Tales of DemonWars[67]	R. A. Salvatore	2015-01-13	Yes
Mather's Blood[67]	R. A. Salvatore	2015-01-13	No
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Phoenix Books Edition][67]	Mark Twain	2015-01-14	No
Armada[72]	Ernest Cline	2015-07-14	No
Prepare to Meet Thy Doom[67]	David Kushner	2015-10-15	No
The Collapsing Empire[79][67]	John Scalzi	2017-03-21	No
Dead Trees Give No Shelter[68]	Wil Wheaton	2017-04-08	No
asteraleS[68]	Wil Wheaton	2017-04-26	No
kamaKiri[68]	Wil Wheaton	2017-05-04	No
Strange Weather[67]	Joe Hill	2017-10-24	Yes
Head On[80][67]	John Scalzi	2018-04-17	No
The Consuming Fire[81][67]	John Scalzi	2018-10-16	No
Alexander X[67]	Edward Savio	2019-06-05	No
Ancient Among Us[67]	Edward Savio	2019-07-30	No
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems[67]	Randall Munroe	2019-09-03	No
Looking for Alaska[67]	John Green	2019-09-24	No
Full Throttle[67]	Joe Hill	2019-10-01	Yes
The Martian[67]	Andy Weir	2020-01-01	No
The Last Emperox[67]	John Scalzi	2020-04-14	No
Ready Player Two[67]	Ernest Cline	2020-11-24	No
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster[82][67]	Bill Gates	2021-02-16	Yes
Still Just a Geek: The Audiobook[83]	Wil Wheaton	2022-04-12	Yes

Wheaton provided the voice-over for the digital gamebook Trial of the Clone.[84]

Live shows

Wheaton has performed improvisational and sketch comedy at the ACME Comedy Theater in Hollywood.[85] He has a traveling sketch comedy/improv troupe called "EarnestBorg9" that performs science fiction-related comedy at conventions.[86]

Writing

Wheaton runs his own blog, Wil Wheaton Dot Net. Between 2001 and late 2004, he operated a message board, known as "The Soapbox" or "Paracosm", as part of the blog site. Two collections of writings taken from postings to the message board have been published, titled Boxer Shorts (ISBN 1-932461-00-0) and Boxer Shorts Redux (ISBN 1-932461-03-5). He contributes regularly to the Los Angeles-based Metroblogging site. In June 2005, he became that month's featured Tech writer for the SuicideGirls Newswire.[87]

In early 2003, he founded the independent publishing company Monolith Press and released a memoir entitled Dancing Barefoot. Monolith Press was "founded on the idea that publication should not be limited by opportunity."[88] Most of the entries are extended versions of his blog entries. Dancing Barefoot sold out three printings in four months. In winter 2003, Wheaton signed to publisher Tim O'Reilly with a three-book contract. O'Reilly acquired Dancing Barefoot, and published his extended memoirs, Just a Geek, in summer of 2004. He 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.[89] Subsequently, in 2007, his next book, The Happiest Days of Our Lives was again published by Monolith Press.[90] In 2008, Subterranean Press published a special expanded edition.[91]

With the release of Sunken Treasure: Wil Wheaton's Hot Cocoa Box Sampler in February 2009, instead of using traditional publishing, Wheaton decided to self-publish using Lulu Publishing, releasing paperback and digital copies, something he has continued to do with all his publications since.^{[citation needed]} As a chapbook, Sunken Treasure contains several small extracts of various different projects, including two short stories from Ficlets, an ACME comedy sketch, William's Tell and a Criminal Minds production diary. The production diary was later released as an audiobook. Later that same year, Wheaton released Memories of the Future: Volume 1, a humorous critique, as well as an account of Wheaton's own experiences with, and memories of, the first thirteen episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.^{[citation needed]} Closing up 2009, Wheaton published a special edition of The Happiest Days of Our Lives, which included an afterword by his son, Ryan. The Happiest Days of Our Lives and Sunken Treasure were released on a Creative Commons license.^{[citation needed]}

In 2017, Wheaton wrote the short story "Laina" for the Star Wars anthology From a Certain Point of View.[92] The book features 40 short stories, each by a different author, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Star Wars.[93]

In 2022, Wheaton published Still Just a Geek, an annotated memoir that includes extensive (and often constructively self-critical) author's commentary on Just a Geek, as well as previously unpublished work.[94]

Politics

Wheaton described himself as a liberal in 2005.[95] In a column that he wrote for Salon.com in 2005, The Real War on Christmas, Wheaton attacked conservative commentators like Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity for influencing the political views of his parents, with whom Wheaton found himself unable to have political discussions during family get-togethers on holidays like Christmas.[95] His 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.[96]

Wheaton campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election.[97]

Immediately following the Sutherland Springs church shooting on November 5, 2017, Wheaton on Twitter stated in response to Congressman Paul Ryan's call for prayers for the victims that "The murdered victims were in a church. If prayers did anything, they'd still be alive, you worthless sack of shit."[98] Wheaton subsequently clarified his opinion after receiving criticism, writing "I apologize to those of you who are sincere people of Faith, who felt attacked by me", but accused "the right wing noise machine" of using his comments "to deflect attention and anger away from the role that unfettered access to weapons of mass murder played in the latest incidence of mass murder in America".[99][100][101]

Personal life

Wheaton married Anne Prince on November 7, 1999,[102] and lives in Arcadia, California, with her and her two sons from a previous relationship.[103] Upon reaching maturity, both sons asked Wheaton to legally adopt them, which he did.[104]

Wheaton was roommates with Chris Hardwick while they were both students at UCLA.[30][105] They met at a showing of Arachnophobia in Burbank, California.[30]

In January 2021, Wheaton announced he had been sober from alcohol for five years.[106]

Wheaton lives with generalized anxiety disorder and chronic depression. He supports mental health nonprofit organizations in raising awareness for these conditions.[107][108]

In 2022 Wheaton participated in Celebrity Jeopardy!, playing for the National Women’s Law Center. He reached the finals, defeating Troian Bellisario and Hasan Minhaj in the quarterfinals, and John Michael Higgins and Joel Kim Booster in the semifinals.[109]

Honors

• Young Artist Awards: 1989 & 1987
• Melbourne Underground Film Festival: Best Actor (2002)
• International Academy of Web Television Awards: Best Host (Pre-Recorded) (2014)[110]

An asteroid was named after him: 391257 Wilwheaton.[111]

Filmography

Films and television films

List of appearances in films and television films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	A Long Way Home	Donald Branch	Television film
1983	Hambone and Hillie	Jeff Radcliffe
1983	13 Thirteenth Avenue	Willie	Television film
1983	The Buddy System	Tim
1984	The Last Starfighter	Louis' friend
1986	The Defiant Ones	Clyde	Television film
1986	Long Time Gone	Mitchell	Television film
1986	Stand by Me	Gordie Lachance
1987	The Curse	Zack
1987	The Last Prostitute	Danny	Television film
1987	The Man Who Fell to Earth	Billy Milton	Television film
1987	Young Harry Houdini	Ehrich Weiss	Television film
1988	She's Having a Baby	Eloy
1991	Toy Soldiers	Joseph "Joey" Trotta
1991	December	Kipp Gibbs
1992	Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special	Himself / Wesley Crusher	Television documentary
1993	The Liars' Club	David Reynolds
1995	Mr. Stitch	Lazarus
1995	It Was Him or Us	Scottie	Television film
1996	Pie in the Sky	Jack
1996	Boys' Night Out	Marco
1997	Trekkies	Himself	Documentary
1997	Flubber	Bennett Hoenicker
1997	Tales of Glamour and Excess	Danny Sugerman
1998	The Day Lincoln Was Shot	Robert Lincoln	Television film
1998	Fag Hag	Himself
1999	Foreign Correspondents	Jonas
2000	The Girls' Room	Charlie
2000	Deep Core	Rodney Bedecker
2000	Python	Thommy
2001	Speechless...	Ryan	Short film
2001	The Good Things	Zach Means	Short film
2002	Jane White Is Sick & Twisted	Dick Smith
2002	Fish Don't Blink	Jimmy
2002	Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me	Himself	Documentary
2002	Star Trek: Nemesis	Wesley Crusher	Cameo & deleted scenes
2003	Book of Days	Danny	Television film
2003	Four Fingers of the Dragon	Himself	Television film
2003	Neverland	John Darling
2007	Americanizing Shelley	Director Alan Smithee
2009	Star Trek	Romulans (various)[112]
2010	Loki and SageKing Go to GenCon	Evil Wil Wheaton	Short film
2014	Sharknado 2: The Second One	Himself as an airline Passenger	Uncredited
2014	Video Games: The Movie	Himself	Documentary
2020	Rent-A-Pal	Andy
2022	In Search of Tomorrow	Himself	Documentary

TV shows and appearances

List of appearances in TV shows

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	CBS Afternoon Playhouse	Amos Cotter	Episode: "The Shooting"
1985	Highway to Heaven	Max	Episode: "One Winged Angels"
1986	St. Elsewhere	Owen Drimmer	Episode: "Nothing Up My Sleeve"
1987	Disneyland	Ehrich Weiss / Harry Houdini	Episode: "Young Harry Houdini"
1987	Family Ties	Timothy Higgins	Episode: "'D' Is for Date"
1987–1994	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Wesley Crusher	Main role; 85 episodes
1989	ABC Afterschool Special	Nick Karpinsky	Episode: "My Dad Can't Be Crazy... Can He?"
1990	Monsters	Kevin	Episode: "A Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites"
1992	Lifestories: Families in Crisis	Robert Bierer	Episode: "A Deadly Secret: The Robert Bierer Story"
1993	Tales from the Crypt	Arling	Episode: "House of Horror"
1994	Sirens	Wayne McGarrick	Episode: "Chasing a Ghost"
1996	The Outer Limits	Cadet	Episode: "The Light Brigade"
1997	Gun	Bilchick	Episode: "Ricochet"
1997	Perversions of Science	Bryan	Episode: "Snap Ending"
1998	The Love Boat: The Next Wave	Tristan Reedy	Episode "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
1998	Diagnosis: Murder	Forest Ranger Gary Barton	Episode: "Alienated"
1999	Guys Like Us	Steve / The Fig	Episode: "Good Old Days"
1999	Chicken Soup for the Soul	Will	Episode: "The Wallet"
2001	The Invisible Man	Dorman	Episode: "Perchance to Dream"
2001	Twice in a Lifetime	Ryan Storey / Dr. Thomas	Episode: "The Choice"
2002	A&E Biography	Narrator	Episode: "Eclipsed by Death: The Life of River Phoenix"
2002	Arena	Presenter	Unknown episodes
2002–2003	The Screen Savers	Presenter	2 episodes
2005	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Walter	Episode: "Compulsion"
2007	Numb3rs	Miles Sklar	Episode: "Graphic"
2008	Criminal Minds	Floyd Hansen	Episode: "Paradise"
2009–2011	Leverage	Colin Mason	Recurring role
2009–2019	The Big Bang Theory	Himself	Recurring role; 17 episodes[113]
2010–2012	Eureka	Dr. Isaac Parrish	Recurring role (Season 4–5)
2014	The Wil Wheaton Project	Presenter	12 episodes
2015–2016	Dark Matter	Alexander Rook	2 episodes
2016	Powers	Conrad Moody	3 episodes
2017	Mystery Science Theater 3000	Drake	Episode: "Reptilicus"
2017	Bill Nye Saves the World	Himself	Episode: "The Original Martian Invasion"
2017	Whose Line Is It Anyway?	Himself	"July 10, 2017" (Season 13, Episode 5)
2019	Supergirl	End of the World Protestor	Episode: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part One"
2022	S.W.A.T.	Whitlock	"February 27, 2022" (Season 5, Episode 11)
2022	Star Trek: Picard	Wesley Crusher	Episode: "Farewell" (Season 2, Episode 10)
2022	S.W.A.T.	Evan Whitlock	Episode: "Old School Cool" (Season 5, Episode 11)

Web shows and series

List of appearances in web shows and series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006–2007	Revision3	Presenter
2007	LoadingReadyRun	Himself
2008	Retarded Policeman #5: Writers Strike[114]	Presenter
2009–2011	The Guild	Fawkes	Main role
2010	IRrelevant Astronomy	The Physician	Episode "Robot Astronomy Talk Show: Destroyer of Worlds"
2012–2017	TableTop	Presenter
2013	Kris and Scott's Scott and Kris Show #10: Ties	Kris's father
2014-2016	Welcome to Night Vale	Earl Harlan	5 episodes, multiple live shows
2015	Titansgrave: The Ashes of Valkana	Game Master/Host
2015	Conversations with Creators	Host[115]
2015	Critical Role	Himself / Thorbir Falbek	2 episodes
2015	Con Man	Officer Cahoots, Man on Plane	2 episodes
2017	Transformers: Titans Return	Perceptor	3 episodes, voice
2020	The Ready Room	Host	26 episodes
2020-2021	Rival Speak[116]	Host	12 episodes

Animation

List of voice performances in animated films and television series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	The Secret of NIMH	Martin Brisby	Feature film
1993	The Legend of Prince Valiant	Prince Michael / King Michael	Main role (Season 2)
2001	The Flintstones: On the Rocks	Brad (Bass Singer)	Television film
2002	The Zeta Project	Kevin	"The Wrong Morph" (Season 2, Episode 14)
2003–05	Teen Titans	Aqualad	Recurring role
2005	Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!	Skurg	"The Lords of Soturix 7" (Season 2, Episode 2)
2006	Avatar: The Last Airbender	Additional voices	"City of Walls and Secrets" (Season 2, Episode 14)
2007	Random! Cartoons	Kyle / Sir Horace	"Kyle + Rosemary" (Season 1, Episode 8)
2007–08	Legion of Super Heroes	Cosmic Boy	Recurring role
2008–09	Ben 10: Alien Force	Mike Morningstar / Darkstar	Recurring role
2009	Naruto	Menma	3 episodes, English version
2009	Kurokami: The Animation	Yakumo	Supporting role, English version
2009–10	Family Guy	Himself (Season 7); Anti-Abortion Activist (Season 8)	"Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" (Season 7, Episode 11) "Partial Terms of Endearment" (Season 8, Episode 21)
2009–10	Batman: The Brave and the Bold	Ted Kord/Silver Age Blue Beetle	2 episodes
2010	Ben 10: Ultimate Alien	Mike Morningstar / Darkstar	Recurring role
2010	Slayers Evolution-R	Hans	Episode 2, English version
2010	Naruto Shippuden the Movie	Taruho, Shizuku	English version
2011	Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn	Aaron Terzieff	"Ghost of Laplace" (Episode 2), English version
2011–12	Redakai	Quantus	Main role
2012–13	Generator Rex	Dr. Peter Meechum	4 episodes
2014	Robot Chicken	Doctor Doom / Centaur / Handy Smurf	"Batman Forever 21" (Season 7, Episode 17)
2014	Ben 10: Omniverse	Mike Morningstar / Darkstar / Dante	2 episodes
2014–18	Teen Titans Go!	Aqualad	4 episodes
2015–18	Miles from Tomorrowland	Commander S'Leet	4 episodes
2016	Fantasy Hospital	The High Wizard	10 episodes
2017–18	Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters	Jonathan Rook, Museum Security Guard	23 episodes
2017	Guardians of the Galaxy	Korvac	Episode: "Unfortunate Son"
2018	Teen Titans Go! To the Movies	The Flash	Feature film
2020	American Dad!	Co-Worker with Witching Sticks	"Businessly Brunette"

Video games

List of voice performances in video games

Year	Title	Role
2004	EverQuest II	Additional voices
2004	Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas	Richard Burns
2004	Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2	Additional voices
2005	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown	Additional voices
2005	Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter	Additional voices
2005	Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories	Richard Burns
2006	Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories	Richard Burns
2007	Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2	Additional voices
2009	Brütal Legend	Watt-R-Boys
2009	Ben 10 Alien Force: Vilgax Attacks	Darkstar
2010	Fallout: New Vegas	Robobrains / Super-Ego / X-8 Robobrain
2011	DC Universe Online	Robin
2013	Grand Theft Auto V	The Local Population
2014	Broken Age	Curtis The Lumberjack
2015	There Came an Echo	Corrin[117]
2015	Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.	Abraham Lincoln
2015	Dungeons & Dragons Online - Reign of Elemental Evil[118]	Dungeon Master
2021	I Expect You To Die 2[119]	John Juniper

Bibliography

References

Further reading

• Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 390-391.
• Wheaton, Wil. "My name is Wil Wheaton. I Live With Chronic Depression and Generalized Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed." Medium.com, June 1, 2018.

External links

• Official website
• Wil Wheaton talks about his depression and anxiety
• WWdN: In Exile
• Wil Wheaton at IMDb
• Wil Wheaton at the TCM Movie Database
• Wil Wheaton at AllMovie
• Wil Wheaton at Curlie
• Wil Wheaton at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

На других языках

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[de] Wil Wheaton

Richard William „Wil“ Wheaton III (* 29. Juli 1972 in Burbank, Kalifornien) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und Schriftsteller. Er begann seine Karriere als Kinderdarsteller.

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[es] Wil Wheaton

Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III (Burbank, California, 29 de julio de 1972) es un escritor y actor estadounidense. Como actor, sus papeles más conocidos son el del alférez Wesley Crusher, de la serie de televisión Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gordie LaChance en la película Stand by Me, el adolescente rebelde Joseph “Joey” Trotta en Toy Soldiers, y participó en ocasiones en la serie The Big Bang Theory interpretándose a sí mismo.

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[ru] Уитон, Уил

Уи́л Уи́тон (англ. Wil Wheaton; род. 29 июля 1972, Бербанк, Калифорния, США) — американский актёр. Известен ролями Горди Лашанса в картине «Останься со мной» и Уэсли Крашера в телевизионном сериале «Звёздный путь: Следующее поколение», а также по сериалу «Теория Большого взрыва», в котором играет самого себя.

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