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Wil Wheaton is an American actor, writer, voice actor, and poker player. Born on July 29, 1972, in Burbank, California, he began his professional work period in 1980. He is a citizen of the United States and currently resides in Arcadia. Wheaton attended the University of California, Los Angeles, and speaks English as his native language.
His acting career includes a role in *The Big Bang Theory*. As a writer, he has published works such as *Still Just a Geek*, *The Happiest Days of Our Lives*, *Dancing barefoot*, *Just a geek*, and *Memories of the Future - Volume 1*. Wheaton identifies as an atheist and plays poker as a sport.
Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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
via Open Library + Wikidata
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
via TMDB
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 4,776x
- 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 3,460x
- An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics
· 2018 · cited 3,148x
- Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas
· 2018 · cited 2,815x
- Molecular cloning of a functional thrombin receptor reveals a novel proteolytic mechanism of receptor activation
· 1991 · cited 2,409x
via Crossref · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Burbank
- Occupation
- podcaster
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Sport
- poker
- Official website
- wilwheaton.net
- Image
- Wil Wheaton - LATFOB 2026-02.jpg
- Residence
- Arcadia
Show 7 more facts
- Commons category
- Wil Wheaton
- date of birth
- 1972-07-29
- present in work
- The Big Bang Theory
- Commons gallery
- Wil Wheaton
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- social media followers
- 81900
- writing language
- English language
Sources (13)
via Wikidata · CC0