Profile via TMDB · Courtesy of TMDB
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 29 July 1972
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Still Just a Geek
- The Happiest Days of Our Lives
- Dancing barefoot
- Just a geek
- Memories of the Future - Volume 1
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Film & TV
Acting · Burbank, California, USA
Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American actor and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gordie LaChance in the film Stand by Me and Joey Trotta in Toy Soldiers. As a writer, he is best known for his blog, Wil Wheaton Dot Net.
Known for
- The Moof Milkers — C-3P02026
- DIY: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Punk — Self2025
- Tales from Woodcreek — Eldorae the Witch of the Old Wood2025
- Attack of the Doc! — Self2023
- Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill! — Azagoron2023
- In Search of Tomorrow — Self - Interviewee2022
- Celebrity Jeopardy! — Self - Contestant2022
- Dogs in Space — Atlas (voice)2021
- The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek — Self2021
- Star Trek: Prodigy — Wesley Crusher (voice)2021
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1972
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,595
- Total plays
- 24,941
Tags
Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972 in Burbank, California) is a writer, actor, and geek icon. As an actor, he is best 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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Wil+Wheaton">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,685x
- Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy
· 2023 · cited 3,141x
- An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics
· 2018 · cited 3,060x
- Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas
· 2018 · cited 2,743x
- Molecular cloning of a functional thrombin receptor reveals a novel proteolytic mechanism of receptor activation
· 1991 · cited 2,404x
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- wilwheaton.net
- Image
- Wil Wheaton - LATFOB 2026-02.jpg
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- Commons category
- Wil Wheaton
- date of birth
- 1972-07-29
- Commons gallery
- Wil Wheaton
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- social media followers
- 81900
Sources (13)
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