Richard William 'Wil' Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American actor, blogger and writer, known for his portrayals of Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gordie Lachance in the film Stand By Me, Joey Trotta in Toy Soldiers, his voice role as Martin Brisby in the animated film The Secret of N.I.M.H. and for his recurring role as a fictionalized version of himself on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
He played as Bennett Hoenicker in Flubber and voiced Skurg in the animated Jetix series, Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!.
He is also the recurring guest character played by himself on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory. He serves as an antagonist towards Sheldon until he became friends with him in Season 5. His last appearance on the show was Season 12 episode 16.
Background[]
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. He has a brother, Jeremy, and a sister, Amy, each of whom appeared uncredited in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "When the Bough Breaks". Amy appeared alongside Wil in the 1987 film The Curse.
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.
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. 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). Wheaton also appeared in Hambone and Hillie (1983), The Buddy System (1984) (opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Susan Sarandon),and the Last Starfighter.
Wheaton first gained widespread attention for his work in Stand by Me (1986), the film adaptation of Stephen King's novella The Body. In Stand by Me, Wheaton played the lead role of Gordie Lachance, a 12-year-old storyteller mourning the loss of his elder brother. 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". In addition to being successful at the box office, Stand by Me was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama and became known as a coming-of-age classic.
Star Trek[]
Wheaton played Wesley Crusher, a "boy genius and Starfleet hopeful", during the first four seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. 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. 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.
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.
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 and later used his public profile to serve as a technology evangelist for the product.
Afterward, he returned to Los Angeles, attended acting school for five years, and then re-entered the acting world. 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. For his performance in Jane White Is Sick & Twisted (2002) he received the award for Best Actor at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival.
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".
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.
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 (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 2009-2011, 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. 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. 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, and Titansgrave, a roleplaying game based show.
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. 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.
Wheaton played Alexander Rook in the Syfy TV series Dark Matter, based on the eponymous comic book.
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. He has hosted "2nd Watch", interviews with cast members and producers of the science-fiction series Falling Skies that appears online after each episode. 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. However, on August 29, Wheaton blogged that SyFy canceled the show after only one season. Wheaton has hosted Star Trek aftershow The Ready Room since the second season in 2020.
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. 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 and held a farewell Pokerstars tournament on June 5, 2007, which he titled So Long and Thanks for All the Chips.
Wheaton is a Dungeons & Dragons player, 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. 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 and raised $1.4 million on Indiegogo for its third series, a record amount for a web series at that time In 2018 it appears in syndication on the TBD cable television.
Wheaton starred in the Kickstarter-funded game There Came an Echo by Iridium Studios. In Dungeons and Dragons Online, he became the dungeon master of the Temple of Elemental Evil quests.
Nintendo of America announced on Twitter that Wheaton would be voicing Abraham Lincoln in Code Name: STEAM. 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. Wheaton does the voice narration on the Secret Hitler companion app for the Secret Hitler social deduction game.
Wheaton has spoken out against misogyny in video game culture, and wrote a profile of Anita Sarkeesian for the 2015 Time 100.
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.
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.
Narrations[]
| Title | Author | Audiobook release date | Additional narrators |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter and Max: A Fables Novel | Bill Willingham | Unknown | Unknown |
| Homeland[1] | Cory Doctorow | 2014 | No |
| More of the Best of Science Fiction and Fantasy[2] | Orson Scott Card et al. | 1999-12-15 | Yes |
| The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of the 20th Century[2] | Greg Bear et al. | 1999-12-16 | Yes |
| The Criminal Minds Production Diary[3] | Wil Wheaton | 2009-03-04 | No |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer[2] | Mark Twain | 2009-10-21 | No |
| Boneshaker[4] | Cherie Priest | 2010-03-18 | Yes |
| METAtropolis: Cascadia[2] | John Scalzi et al. | 2010-11-16 | Yes |
| The Android's Dream[2] | John Scalzi | 2010-12-07 | No |
| Agent to the Stars[2] | John Scalzi | 2010-12-07 | No |
| Fuzzy Nation[5][6][2] | John Scalzi | 2011-05-10 | Yes |
| Ready Player One[7][2] | Ernest Cline | 2011-08-16 | No |
| Redshirts[8][2] | John Scalzi | 2012-06-05 | No |
| Masters of Doom[9][2] | David Kushner | 2012-07-12 | No |
| Trumps of Doom[2] | Roger Zelazny | 2012-07-31 | No |
| Prince of Chaos[2] | Roger Zelazny | 2012-07-31 | No |
| Sign of Chaos[2] | Roger Zelazny | 2012-07-31 | No |
| Knight of Shadows[2] | Roger Zelazny | 2012-07-31 | No |
| Blood of Amber[2] | Roger Zelazny | 2012-07-31 | No |
| V Wars[2] | Jonathan Maberry et al. | 2012-10-10 | Yes |
| Rip-Off![2] | John Scalzi et al. | 2012-12-18 | Yes |
| Just A Geek: Teh Audio Book[3] | Wil Wheaton | 2013-11-23 | No |
| Dancing Barefoot: The Audio Book[3] | Wil Wheaton | 2013-12-07 | No |
| The Happiest Days of Our Lives: The Special Extended Edition Audio Book[3] | Wil Wheaton | 2013-12-10 | No |
| Dead Pig Collector[2] | Warren Ellis | 2013-12-17 | No |
| Byways: A METAtropolis Story[10] | Tobias Buckell | 2014-01-30 | No |
| Suspect Zero[2] | Richard Kadrey | 2014-07-01 | No |
| If Ever They Happened Upon My Lair[2] | R. A. Salvatore | 2014-08-11 | No |
| Lock In[11][12][2] | John Scalzi | 2014-08-26 | No |
| What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions[13] | Randall Munroe | 2014-09-02 | No |
| The Education of Brother Thaddius and Other Tales of DemonWars[2] | R. A. Salvatore | 2015-01-13 | Yes |
| Mather's Blood[2] | R. A. Salvatore | 2015-01-13 | No |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Phoenix Books Edition][2] | Mark Twain | 2015-01-14 | No |
| Armada[7] | Ernest Cline | 2015-07-14 | No |
| Prepare to Meet Thy Doom[2] | David Kushner | 2015-10-15 | No |
| The Collapsing Empire[14][2] | John Scalzi | 2017-03-21 | No |
| Dead Trees Give No Shelter[3] | Wil Wheaton | 2017-04-08 | No |
| asteraleS[3] | Wil Wheaton | 2017-04-26 | No |
| kamaKiri[3] | Wil Wheaton | 2017-05-04 | No |
| Strange Weather[2] | Joe Hill | 2017-10-24 | Yes |
| Head On[15][2] | John Scalzi | 2018-04-17 | No |
| The Consuming Fire[16][2] | John Scalzi | 2018-10-16 | No |
| Alexander X[2] | Edward Savio | 2019-06-05 | No |
| Ancient Among Us[2] | Edward Savio | 2019-07-30 | No |
| How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems[2] | Randall Munroe | 2019-09-03 | No |
| Looking for Alaska[2] | John Green | 2019-09-24 | No |
| Full Throttle[2] | Joe Hill | 2019-10-01 | Yes |
| The Martian[2] | Andy Weir | 2020-01-01 | No |
| The Last Emperox[2] | John Scalzi | 2020-04-14 | No |
| Ready Player Two[2] | Ernest Cline | 2020-11-24 | No |
| How to Avoid a Climate Disaster[17][2] | Bill Gates | 2021-2-16 | Yes |
Wheaton has provided the voice-over for the digital gamebook, Trial of the Clone.[18]
Live shows[]
Wheaton has performed improvisational and sketch comedy at the ACME Comedy Theater in Hollywood. He has a traveling sketch comedy/improv troupe called "EarnestBorg9" that performs science fiction-related comedy at conventions.
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.
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." 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. Subsequently, in 2007, his next book, The Happiest Days of Our Lives was again published by Monolith Press.
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. 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. 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.
In 2017, Wheaton wrote the short story "Laina" for the Star Wars anthology From a Certain Point of View. The book features 40 short stories, each by a different author, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Star Wars.
Politics[]
Wheaton described himself as a liberal in 2005. 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. 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.
Wheaton campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election.
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." 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".
Personal life[]
Wheaton married Anne Prince on November 7, 1999, and lives in Arcadia, California, with her and her two sons from a previous relationship. Upon reaching maturity, both sons asked Wheaton to legally adopt them, which he did.
Wheaton was roommates with Chris Hardwick while they were both students at UCLA. They met at a showing of Arachnophobia in Burbank, California.
In January 2021, Wheaton announced he had been sober from alcohol for five years.
Wheaton lives with generalized anxiety disorder and chronic depression. He supports mental health nonprofit organizations in raising awareness for these conditions.
Honors[]
- Young Artist Awards: 1989 & 1987
- Melbourne Underground Film Festival: Best Actor (2002)
- International Academy of Web Television Awards: Best Host (Pre-Recorded) (2014)
An asteroid was named after him: 391257 Wilwheaton.
Appearances[]
The Big Bang Theory[]
He first appeared in Season 3 episode 5 "The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary" as he enters the Mystic Warlords of Ka'a tournament with Stuart and playing against Sheldon and Raj. Sheldon only joined because he wanted to confront him over an incident of the past: a young 15 year old Sheldon was devastated when Wheaton (who played Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation) failed to show up at the '95 Dixie Trek convention in Jackson, Mississippi (it is later revealed in "The Russian Rocket Reaction" that Wil attended Hollywood Squares instead). In the final match, Sheldon is about to defeat his hated rival, but Wheaton tricks him once more by telling Sheldon his grandmother had died shortly before the convention and prevails. It is revealed that this ruse was a scam to win and upon losing, Sheldon tenses up and screams angrily, "WHEATON!" just as James T. Kirk yelled "Khan!!"
Wil Wheaton reappears in the episode "The Wheaton Recurrence" where he has two bowling matches against the main characters. He replaces Albino Bob as a member in Stuart's bowling team. In the second match, Sheldon names his team 'The Wesley Crushers', thinking it a clever pun implying that they will crush Wesley Crusher, who was Wheaton's character in Star Trek. However most interpret the name meaning the team are Wesley Crusher's fans. Wheaton breaks up Leonard and Penny's relationship in order to win a bowling competition, as Leonard and Penny were already having issues because of Leonard's premature "I love you". Sheldon, Leonard, Raj and Howard dress as super-heroines and super-villainesses and go to the comic book store for losing the match.
Wheaton appears again on "The 21-Second Excitation", Sheldon and his friends get in a long line to enter the cinema, then Wheaton comes with Lonely Larry and Captain Sweatpants and enters the cinema without doing the line because of his celebrity status, causing Sheldon and friends to not be able to enter the movies. Sheldon then steals the movie from the projection booth and the gang gets chased by him and the movie goers.
In "The Russian Rocket Reaction", Wheaton invites Leonard and Sheldon to a party at his house. Leonard intends to go with Raj and Howard (until he tells everyone that he got offered to go into space), leaving Sheldon feeling betrayed. However, he has a change of heart when he finds out that Brent "Data" Spiner will be attending. At the party, Wheaton gives Sheldon the gift that he had always been waiting for, a signed, mint-condition Wesley Crusher action figure, saying, "To Sheldon, sorry it took so long. Your friend, Wil Wheaton." Sheldon immediately forgives him and gives him a hug. However, Brent Spiner comes along and sees the action figure. He opens it. Sheldon then announces that Spiner is now his mortal enemy instead of Wheaton.
Wil Wheaton appeared again in "The Stag Convergence" as a guest at Howard's bachelor party. He almost ruins (albeit inadvertently) Howard and Bernadette's relationship when he records Raj's drunken toast (which reveals embarrassing details of Howard's sordid sexual past) and posts it on YouTube, where it's viewed by Bernadette. She nearly calls off the wedding until Howard makes an emotional plea, saying that he's no longer that person and that it's all because of her, and she forgives him (even though she's still mad at him for not telling her about his past).
In the episode "The Habitation Configuration", we see the front of Wil Wheaton's fictional home. The house number is 1701 which is an obvious reference to his time spent on Star Trek: the Next Generation with the USS Enterprise's registry number being NCC-1701-D. Wil agrees to appear on a Star Trek episode of "Sheldon Cooper presents Fun with Flags". Amy is filming it and gets into an argument with Sheldon. Confused he takes Wil's side which makes Amy mad. After getting drunk, he shows up at Wil's house to defend Amy's honor and Wil apologizes.
When Penny has trouble getting her acting career started, she and Leonard consult Wil. He warns them about how depressing it can be to take on projects one knows will be bad (repeatedly correcting Penny when she thinks he is referencing Star Trek). He ends up in a malaise, but is snapped out of it when he finds himself in the TV-guide crossword. Later, after Penny accepts the part in Serial Ape-ist 2, she is surprised to discover Wil is also working on the film, as a mad orangutan (in a full body suit, so as not to be identifiable). Wil seems excited by this development.
Wil Wheaton is also playing Penny's boyfriend in the movie and the scientist who impregnated Penny with the killer gorilla DNA that is slowly transforming her. When Penny asks for another take and the director refuses, they both get fired. While commiserating at a bar, Wil tells Penny that is the craft and art that should be important to her and not some terrible movie. He then gets an audition call for another potentially bad movie and leaves them.
Wil and Penny set up a podcast to talk about their movie Serial Ape-ist 2, with Leonard joining them in her apartment with them as they talk. Eventually actor/director Kevin Smith calls and offers Penny a role in his next movie, Clerks 3. While Penny is interested in going back to acting (a job she had previously shelved to be a pharmaceutical salesperson) Leonard is concerned she will just be disappointed. Wil takes delight in watching them argue, deliberately keeping them on the air. When the two resolve for Penny to take a shot at the role, Wil points out to a dubious Leonard that Penny tricked him into agreeing to let her try out.
In "The Spock Resonance", Wil introduces Adam Nimoy to Sheldon. Adam conducts an interview with Sheldon about what the work of his father, Leonard Nimoy, as Spock mint to him. Showing off one of his prized possessions, the napkin upon which Leonard Nimoy wiped his mouth, and was a Christmas present to him by Penny in season 2, "The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis", Sheldon also showed off the engagement ring that he intended to give Amy.
In "The Opening Night Excitation", when Sheldon decided to spend the evening with Amy on her birthday instead, Wil is the recipient of Sheldon's Star Wars movie tickets. He shows up to the movie dressed as Mr. Spock and enjoys the hatred from the Star Wars fans. While trying to root for the home team since he was in Star Trek, he also wants everyone to realize that it is just a movie. The guys seem to realize that even though they are going to see it again the next day.
In "The Celebration Experimentation", Wil attends Sheldon's birthday party. In his toast, Wil admits that they have had their ups and downs, and even though they met because he was a fan of Star Trek, Wil was a fan of Sheldon Cooper. Also Wil's life has been more interesting because of Sheldon.
He made his last appearance in the 16th episode of Season 12, The D&D Vortex.
Filmography[]
- The Last Starfighter (1984) (Lorimar/Universal Pictures) - Louis' friend (Film)
- It Was Him or Us (1995) (Warner Bros. Television) - Scottie (TV Film)
- Pie in the Sky (1996) (Fine Line Features) - Jack (Film)
- The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1998) (TNT Productions) - Robert Lincoln
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Wil Wheaton did a really good voice impression of Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars, after Sheldon referred him as "The Jar Jar Binks of the Star Trek universe" when they meet again whilst waiting to go into the Movie Theater. With that noted, his character Wesley Crusher is criticized by fans who watch Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Bibliography[]
- Dancing Barefoot (ISBN 0-596-00674-8) (2004)
- Just a Geek (ISBN 0-596-00768-X) (2004)
- Stories of Strength (ISBN 1-4116-5503-6) (2005; contributor)
- The Happiest Days of Our Lives (ISBN 0-9741160-2-5) (2007)
- Sunken Treasure (2009)
- Memories of the Future Vol. 1 (ISBN 0-9741160-4-1) (2009)
- Wil Wheaton's Criminal Minds Production Diary (2009)
- Clash of the Geeks (2010; contributor)
- The Day After, and Other Stories (2010)
- The Monster in My Closet (2011)
- Hunter (2011)
- Dead Trees Give No Shelter (2017)
- Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View (2017; contributor)
References[]
- ↑ "HOMELAND by Cory Doctorow Read by Wil Wheaton - Audiobook Review - AudioFile Magazine". Audiophile.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 "Results by narrator "Wil Wheaton" in All Categories". Audible.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "Audio - Wil Wheaton". bandcamp.
- ↑ "Boneshaker". Audible.
- ↑ "Fuzzy Nation". Audible.
- ↑ "The Android's Dream". Audible.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Howe, Brian (November 11, 2015). "An old-school book lover in praise of the audiobook".
- ↑ Scalzi, John. Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas (in en-US).
- ↑ Audiobooks.com [@audiobooks_com] (May 15, 2012). "Masters of Doom launched today exclusively through. Listen here, free! @wilw @davidkushner".
- ↑ "Cascadia". Audible.
- ↑ Scalzi, John (July 2, 2014). "The Lock In Audiobook: Two Versions, Two Narrators. Pre-Order and Get Both".
- ↑ Lock In (Narrated by Wil Wheaton) (in en-US).
- ↑ "What If?". Audible.
- ↑ "The Collapsing Empire Fire".
- ↑ Head On (Narrated by Wil Wheaton) (in en-US).
- ↑ "The Consuming Fire".
- ↑ "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster".
- ↑ Google Play page for Trial of the ClonePage Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.
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