Wil Wheaton

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Richard William Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American actor, blogger, and writer.

In the film Stand By Me, Joey Trotta in Toy Soldiers and Bennett Hoenicker in Flubber, he portrayed Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Wheaton has appeared in the Ben 10 universe as Aqualad, Cosmic Boy, and as Mike Morningstar/Darkstar.

He appeared on CBS' The Big Bang Theory as a fictionalized version of himself, and in the roles of Fawkes on The Guild, Colin Mason on Leverage, and Dr.

On Eureka, Isaac Parrish is the governor of Eureka.

Wheaton is also the show's host and co-creator of TableTop, the YouTube board game.

Early life

Wheaton was born in Burbank, California, on July 29, 1972, to Debra "Debbie" Nordean (née O'Connor), an actress, and Richard William Wheaton Jr., a medical specialist. He has a brother, Jeremy, and a sister, Amy, all of whom were uncredited in the Star Trek episode "When the Bough Breaks." Amy appeared in the 1987 film The Curse alongside Wil Wil.

Wheaton referred to his father as a child and his mother as the perpetrator of this violence as an adult. He also stated that his parents compelled him to become an actor.

Personal life

Wheaton married Anne Prince on November 7, 1999 and lives in Arcadia, California, with her two children from previous marriages. Both sons asked Wheaton to legally adopt them as they reached maturity, which he did.

When Wheaton and Chris Hardwick were both undergraduates at UCLA, they were roommates. They met in Burbank, California, at a display of Arachnophobia.

Wheaton declared that he had been sober for five years in January 2021.

Wheaton suffers from generalized anxiety disorder and chronic depression. He advocates for mental health charities in raising the threat of these disorders.

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Career

Wheaton made his acting debut in Timothy Hutton's film A Long Way Home (1981). In Robert C. O'Brien's film Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971), he portrayed Martin. Wheaton appeared in Hambone and Hillie (1983), The Buddy System (1984) (opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Susan Sarandon) and the Last Starfighter (1984).

Wheaton first gained notoriety for his role in Stand By Me (1986), the film version of Stephen King's novella The Body. Wheaton played Gordie Lachance, a 12-year-old storyteller burying the death of his elder brother in Stand by Me. Sheila Benson of the Los Angeles Times wrote about the film that "Wheaton makes Gordie's'sensitivity' tangible, but not necessarily effective. He's a natural performer." Stand By Me was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Moving Picture – Drama and became a coming-of-age classic, in addition to being a hit at the box office.

During the first four seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wheaton played Wesley Crusher, a "boy genius and Starfleet hopeful." In additional four episodes of the remaining three seasons, he appeared in an additional four episodes. The Wesley Crusher character is a "polarizing" character; while some Star Trek followers adore him, others are outraged about the character's demise. In a 2004 interview for WebTalk Radio, Wheaton talked about his opponents: he spoke about his detractors.

Wheaton canceled Star Trek: The Next Generation due to questions about how the production team handled a scheduling conflict relating to his desire to appear in the 1989 film, Valmont.

Wheaton appeared on Star Trek: Nemesis and Picard's season 2 finale in 2002 and 2022, reprising his Wesley Crusher role in cameo appearances.

In the action film Toy Soldiers (1991), Wheaton played Joey Trotta. After leaving Star Trek, he went to Topeka, Kansas, to work with NewTek, where he helped develop the Video Toaster 4000's product development and quality control, then used his public image to become a technology ambassador for the product.

Since returning to Los Angeles, he attended acting school for five years and then rejoined the theater world. Wheaton appeared in many independent films, including the award-winning The Good Things (2001), in which he portrays a dissatisfied Kansas tollbooth worker. He was given the Best Actor award at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival for his role in Jane White Is Sick & Twisted (2002).

Wheaton has worked as a voice actor in animation, video games, and audiobooks, beginning with Martin Brisby's appearance in The Secret of NIMH at age 10. Aqualad's most notable work includes his appearances in Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go!, Richard Burns' voice in Grand Theft Auto: Kyle + Rosemary, alongside himself and several others on both Family Guy and Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedies. Ted Kord, the second member of Wheaton, also appeared in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Dr. Peter Meechum in Generator Rex, Ben 10: Alien Force, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien & Ben 10: Omniverse. In Kurokami, Wheaton played Yakumo, Menma, Hans Seiken in Slayers Evolution-R, Aaron Terzieff in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. He appeared as himself in a skit comparing nerdcore rapper Frontalot's 2008 album Final Boss, who wanted to be a rapper but whose rhymes only included shellfish. Wheaton also worked on "Your Friend Wil," a track from 2010's album Zero Day on the topic of Wheaton's law "don't be a dick."

Wheaton has narrated a number of best-selling audiobooks, including Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Wheaton also appears in the novel's universe as joint President alongside Cory Doctorow of the OASIS User Council in the virtual world), and Ready Player Two, Armada by Scalzi, along with Cline, Ready Player Two, Armada, and books 6-10 of Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber's Chronicles.

Wheaton appeared on The Weakest Link in 2001, where Star Trek actors were competing to raise money for charity. He has appeared on the November 23, 2007, episode of the TV series Numb3rs, as well as the October 22, 2008, episode of the series Criminal Minds, as well as a cameo in a comedy sketch ("Lock Out") for LoadingReadyRun (and a reprise of the same the following year in CommodoreHustle 4). Wheaton appeared in seasons 3, 4, 4, and 5 of the web series The Guild as Fawkes, the head of a rival guild known as Axis of Anarchy, from 2009 to 2011. Wheaton is credited with resurrecting his career by encouraging him to pursue outside roles as the "Villain You Love To Hate" stock character. Colin "Chaos" Mason, the adversary to Leverage team hacker Alec Hardison, appears in seasons 2, 3, 3, and 4 of the television series Leverage. He appeared on numerous web shows for Geek & Sundry, including hosting TableTop, a board game-based exhibition, and Titansgrave, a roleplaying game based show.

In 17 episodes of The Big Bang Theory, he appeared as a fictionalized recreation of himself, beginning in season 3: "The Creepy Candy Corollary" (2009). Wheaton appears on the show in a petty and manipulative manner towards main character Sheldon Cooper, who sees him as an enemy until the season 5 episode "The Russian Rocket Reaction," when they make amends and become best friends. Wheaton appears in 12 episodes on Euka as Dr. Isaac Parrish, the head of the Non-Lethal Weapons Lab at Global Dynamics and a thorn in Fargo's side. In the well-known dark, surreal-comedy podcast Welcome to Night Vale, Wheaton also depicts the voice of the former scoutmaster and current sous-chef Earl Harlan.

Wheaton appeared in the Syfy TV series Dark Matter, based on the eponymous comic book.

Wheaton produced InDigital, a Revision3 syndicated video podcast produced in September 2006, with Jessica Corbin and Hahn Choi. On Monday, August 6, 2012, he hosted a NASA video on the Mars Curiosity rover, which landed on Monday. "2nd Watch" is his host, an online video interview with cast members and designers of the science-fiction series Falling Skies. Wheaton announced on his blog on April 3, 2014 that his latest show, The Wil Wheaton Project, would premiere on the SyFy network at 10 p.m. on May 27 for the first planned run of twelve episodes. However, Wheaton announced on August 29 that SyFy had cancelled the program after just one season. Since hosting The Ready Room in the second season in 2020, Wheaton has hosted Star Trek.

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