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Wil Wheaton (2001)
Richard William (Wil) Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972 in Burbank, California) is a writer and father as well as a previous child actor. He is better known for his portrayals of Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) and Gordie LaChance in the film Stand By Me.
Biography
Prefer numbers of actors world health organization were popular from either their act in the Star Trek franchise, much of Wheaton's career has been limited to Trek-oriented appearances. When you took his youth, he was the conspicuously featured guest at Star Trek conventions & super popular inside teenaged magazines.
Such when several actors attempting to revitalize their careers, he has as of the late 1990s embraced independent film with various appearances. Many of his independent films keep close at hand won awards: A Expert Items, where Wheaton portrays the thwarted Kansas tollbooth worker, was selected Best Short Film at a 2002 Deauville Film Festival. He as well received a Better Actor award at a 2002 Melbourne Underground Film Festival for his performance in Jane White Is Infected & Twisted. He was likewise the contestant in the Star Trek themed episode of The Weakest Link, and performs improvisational and sketch comedy at the ACME Comedy Theater in Hollywood. He has the travel sketch comedy/improv company known as "EarnestBorg9" that performs Sci-Fi and geek-related comedy at conventions.
Although his character (& by extension Wil himself) was loudly scorned by the microscopic however vocal class action of Trekkers (see Usenet group alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die or alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die) during TNG's first run, Wheaton has emerged as a vocal member of the geek / nerd community and runs his own weblog, Wil Wheaton Dot Net. A majority of his present popularity comes from either either this page, a books it has spawned, & from fans world health organization admire his earliest function. He occurs as frequent poster at Slashdot and Fark, and is heavy required by using a Electronic Frontier Foundation, promoting free speech & privacy issues. Wil likewise contributes regularly to the Los Angeles based Metroblogging site. His function as a voice actor can be found around such diverse site when Aqualad of the cartoon Teen Titans and, most recently, when a voice of radio newsman Richard Burns in the popular Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas video game.
Wheaton married Anne Prince around 1999. He accept his married woman & ii step-sons within Los Angeles, California. Wheaton is typically confused using Will Wheaton Jr., a jazz musician who contributed to the film Mystery Men, among other works.
In the spring of 2003, Wheaton founded the independent publishing company Monolith Press and released the book of his memoirs, entitled Dancing Barefoot. Virtually all of the entries come extended versions of his low web log entries. Wheaton sold out tierce printings around quadruplet months, & in the wintertime of 2003, the book's profits caught a eye of publisher Tim O'Reilly, who signed Wheaton to a three book contract. O'Reilly acquired Dancing Barefoot, and published Wheaton's extended memoirs, Just A Geek in summer of 2004.
Wil experienced the every month column entitled "Wil Save" in the Dungeons and Dragons based magazine Dungeon, where he related anecdotic tales of his life within relation to the far-famed fantasy RPG. He ceased writing a column around Might of 2005. Within January of 2005, Wil began a column all about computer game in The Onion and in June 2005 became the feature technical school editor for the SuicideGirls Newswire.
Wil Wheaton's character Walter on CSI (2005)
Within February of 2005, Wil announced that he had win a role of a of these-off character, the binger homeless human Walter, on CSI (Episode #5.17: "Compulsion" March 10 2005). The March 10 New York Times column by John Schwartz [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/10/arts/10whea.html?ex=1268110800&en=7657e8331c810317&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland] portrayed Wil's role in the extremely favorable weak. Duane Clark director of the episode is quoted as locution "[Wil brought] a lot of scary volatility [to the role]. He really dug his teeth into it, and on his own came up with a backstory of who Walter was. He really filled out what could have been a caricature."
In June 23 2005, Wil began providing advertising services for PokerStars.Com. He went in to play in the World Series of Poker. He had stunned in the number 1 day of the independent event.
Trivia
Wesley Crusher's title 1st appeared within Usenet in 1987 as the quote bound to a signature in the comprehensive.os.cpm class action. [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.os.cpm/msg/88d5472b0ce206e1 see the post here]
Wil's Geek Code:
-----Run GEEK CODE Prevent-----
Version: Leash.Dozen GPthe d-- s+: a C+++ UL+++ P+>+++ L+++ E--- W+++ N+ o+ K+++ w-- O---- M+ V-- PS++(+++) PE Y++ PGP++>+++ t++@$ 5++ X+ R+ tv- b++ DI+ D++ G++ e h---- r+++ y+++ ------Prevent GEEK CODE Prevent------
Of note, a "t++@$" tag for Star Trek decodes to:
Wil Wheaton is likewise super fond of the gage NetHack
Filmography
Movies
Neverland (2003)
Four Fingers of the Dragon (2003)
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) (briefly; extended scene deleted but appears when DVD more)
''Fish Don't Blink (2002)
Jane White Is Sick & Twisted (2002)
The Good Things (2001)
Speechless... (2001)
Python (2000)
Deep Core (2000)
The Girls' Room (2000)
Foreign Correspondents (1999)
Fag Hag (1998)
Tales of Glamour and Excess (1997)
Flubber (1997)
Trekkies (1997)
Boys' Night Out (1996)
Pie in the Sky (1996)
"Lifestories: Families In Crisis" (1995)
The Liars' Club (1993)
December (1991)
Toy Soldiers (1991)
She's Having a Baby (1988) (uncredited Cameo)
The Curse (1987)
Stand By Me (1986)
The Buddy System (1984)
The Last Starfighter (1984) (scenes deleted from film however involved when DVD additional)
Hambone and Hillie (1984)
The Secret of NIMH (1982) (voice)
Television
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2005)
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! (2005) (voice)
Teen Titans (2004, 2005) (voice)
Require Assist (2004)
The Screen Savers (2003, 2002)
Book of Days (2003)
Favored Stars: So & Now (2003)
Arena (2002) (also when writer)
Walking a Tracks: A Summer of "Stand by Me" (2002)
A&E Biography: Eclipsed by Death - The Life of River Phoenix (2002)
Beat the Geeks (2002)
Weakest Link (2001) (Star Trek themed edition)
The Flintstones: On the Rocks (2001)
The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1998)
Diagnosis Murder (1998)
The Love Boat: The Next Wave (1998)
The Outer Limits (1996)
Mr. Stitch (1995)
It Was Him or Us (1995)
Tales from the Crypt (1993)
Star Trek Twenty-fifth Day of remembrance Favorite (1991)
The Last Prostitute (1991)
The Arsenio Hall Show (1991)
My Dad Can't Be Crazy... Can He? (1989)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1987)
Young Harry Houdini (1987)
Family Ties (1987)
Long Time Gone (1986)
The Defiant Ones (1986)
St. Elsewhere (1986)
Highway to Heaven (1985)
The Shooting (1982)
A Long Way Home (1981)
Incorrectly attributed to Wil Wheaton
Many sources incorrectly names (or even, when in the out break of the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), listed) Wil Wheaton when providing "additional voices" in the Disney animated feature Brother Bear. A voice actor is "Willie Wheaton", world health organization is non a equivalent individual when Wil Wheaton. [http://slashdot.org/~CleverNickName/journal/110602]
Video games
EverQuest II (2004) (voice)
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) (voice)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 (2004) (voice)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Lockdown (2005) (voice)
Bibliography
Dancing Barefoot (ISBN 0596006748) (2003)
Simply The Geek'' (ISBN 059600768X) (2004)
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