Wil Wheaton

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Wil Wheaton (2019)

Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972 in Burbank , California ) is an American actor and writer . He started his career as a child actor .

Life

Wheaton's parents are actress Debbie and medical technician Richard William Wheaton. He has a brother Jeremy and a sister Amy , both of whom have also worked as actors.

Wheaton owes his popularity primarily to the role of Wesley Crusher in the television series Starship Enterprise: The Next Century . He previously played a leading role in the film Stand by Me - The Secret of a Summer .

In his youth he was a frequent guest at Star Trek - conventions and very popular in youth magazines. Aside from Stand by Me and Starship Enterprise: The Next Century, he hardly appeared. His work on a weekly broadcast series was not compatible with offers for other film projects such as Miloš Forman's Valmont . Negotiations about contract terms that would have enabled him to work on other projects besides Star Trek failed.

This fact, as well as the fact that people close to him advised him because of his acting talent eventually led him to leave Starship Enterprise: The Next Century in season four to pursue other acting projects. From then on, he stopped performing at conventions until his book Dancing Barefoot (2003) was published.

However, after leaving Star Trek , there were no major role offers . So he spent the following years in Kansas at NewTek , which initially produced software and hardware for video processing on the Commodore Amiga computer . His work there opened up the opportunity to implement film ideas himself. After NewTek split up, he returned to Los Angeles and tried to get back into the entertainment industry.

In the late 1990s, Wil Wheaton discovered independent film for himself. Several of his films have won awards: The Good Things , in which Wheaton plays a frustrated Kansas toll collector , was named Best Short Film at the 2002 Deauville Film Festival . Wheaton was also named Best Actor at the 2002 Melbourne Underground Film Festival for his role in Jane White Is Sick And Twisted . He also played at a Star Trek edition of the game show The Weakest Link (in Germany as The Weakest known) with and makes improvisation - and Sketch - Comedy at the ACME Comedy Theater in Hollywood . He is part of a comedy / improvisation troupe called ErnestBorg9 who do comedy on conventions on the subjects of science fiction and geeks .

His voice can be heard in various American audio books as well as in the cartoon Teen Titans and in the computer game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as radio host Richard Burns.

In 1999, Wil Wheaton married Anne Prince, who brought two sons into the marriage.

activities

Wil Wheaton runs one of the most popular fan blogs. In addition to his work on his own blog, he is a regular at Slashdot and Fark and a dedicated employee at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and appeared in the video "Stop Watching US" in the course of the surveillance and espionage affair in 2013. He also regularly contributes to the Metroblogging websites in Los Angeles . He maintains his own monthly column called Wil Save in Dungeon , a magazine based on Dungeons and Dragons , in which he reports anecdotes from his life in the role-playing world . Since January 2005 he has also been writing a column on video games in The Onion .

In early 2003, Wil Wheaton founded his own independent publisher, Monolith Press, and published his memoir under the title Dancing Barefoot . Most of the passages are long versions of his blog entries. Within four months, three editions of this book were sold, so the O'Reilly Media became aware of it and signed a deal with Wil Wheaton for three books. Dancing Barefoot has since appeared on O'Reilly as well as his second work Just a Geek (published summer 2004). An audio book version is also available.

He is now involved in the PokerStars poker team . He was also one of the moderators of the English-language video podcast InDigital - Your life in Gear from September 2006 to September 2007 . From 2009 to 2019 he played himself several times in the series The Big Bang Theory , where he appeared self-deprecatingly with repeated references to his role as Wesley Crusher, first as an arch enemy, later as a friend of the character Sheldon Cooper .

From 2012 to 2017 Wheaton moderated the web series TableTop on the YouTube channel Geek & Sundry , where he presented board and card games with various celebrities.

Filmography (selection)

Wil Wheaton (2001)

Movies

  • 1981: The Long Way Home ( A Long Way Home , Movie made for TV)
  • 1983: 13 13th Avenue (TV movie)
  • 1984: Hambone and Hillie
  • 1984: Offer mother - look for father (The Buddy System)
  • 1984: The Last Starfighter
  • 1986: Escape in Chains ( The Defiant Ones , TV movie)
  • 1986: Long Time Gone (TV movie)
  • 1986: Stand by Me - The Secret of a Summer (Stand by Me)
  • 1987: The Magician's Youth ( Young Harry Houdini , TV movie)
  • 1987: The Man Who Fell to Earth ( The Man Who Fell to Earth , TV movie)
  • 1987: The Curse
  • 1991: Boy Soldiers (Toy Soldiers)
  • 1991: A Woman Without a Past ( The Last Prostitute , TV movie)
  • 1991: December
  • 1993: Raped - Young and Guilty (The Liars' Club)
  • 1995: Mr. Stitch (TV movie)
  • 1995: Love and Terror ( It Was Him or Us , Movie made for TV)
  • 1996: Boys Night Out (short film)
  • 1996: Mr. Traffic (Pie in the Sky)
  • 1997: Tales of Glamor and Excess
  • 1997: Flubber
  • 1998: Abraham Lincoln - The Assassination of the President (The Day Lincoln Was Shot)
  • 1998: Fag Hag
  • 1999: Foreign Correspondents
  • 2000: The Girls' Room
  • 2000: Deep Core - The earth is burning (Deep Core)
  • 2000: Python - Silently comes death ( Python , TV movie)
  • 2001: Speechless ... (short film)
  • 2001: The Good Things (short film)
  • 2002: Jane White Is Sick & Twisted
  • 2002: Fish Don't Blink
  • 2002: Star Trek: Nemesis (Star Trek Nemesis)
  • 2003: The Book of Days ( Book of Days , TV movie)
  • 2003: Neverland
  • 2007: From Bollywood to Hollywood (Americanizing Shelley)
  • 2014: Sharknado 2 ( Sharknado 2: The Second One , TV movie)

Series

Dubbing voice in computer games

Autobiographical literature

Web links

Commons : Wil Wheaton  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Wheaton on Slashdot.org (accessed August 21, 2011)
  2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGmiw_rrNxk
  3. ↑ wilwheaton.typepad.com
personal data
SURNAME Wheaton, Wil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wheaton, Richard William III (full name); Wheaton, Willie (in some movie roles)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Burbank , California