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Richard William Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American actor. He portrayed
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on the television series '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', Gordie Lachance in the film '' Stand by Me'', Joey Trotta in ''
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'', and Bennett Hoenicker in '' Flubber''. Wheaton has also appeared in recurring
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roles as
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in ''
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'',
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on the ''
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'', and Mike Morningstar/Darkstar in the ''
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'' franchise's original continuity. He appeared regularly as a fictionalized version of himself on the sitcom ''
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'' and in the roles of Fawkes on '' The Guild'', Colin Mason on ''
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'', and Dr. Isaac Parrish on ''
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''. Wheaton was the host and co-creator of the YouTube board game show ''
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''. He has narrated numerous audio books, including ''
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'' and ''
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''.


Early life

Wheaton was born July 29, 1972, in
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, 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. He is currently estranged from his parents.


Career


Early work and ''Stand By Me''

Wheaton made his acting debut in the television film '' A Long Way Home'' (1981), which starred
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. He voiced the character of Martin in the animated film ''
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'' (1982), the movie adaptation of Robert C. O'Brien's book '' Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH'' (1971). Wheaton also appeared in ''
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'' (1983), ''
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'' (1984) (opposite
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and
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), and ''
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''. Wheaton first gained widespread attention for his work in '' Stand by Me'' (1986), the film adaptation of
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'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 ''
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'' 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
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and became known as a coming-of-age classic.


''Star Trek''

Wheaton played
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, a "boy genius and
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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: 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''. Wheaton returned to ''Star Trek'' in 2002 and 2022, reprising his Wesley Crusher role in cameo appearances in '' Star Trek: Nemesis'', and in the season 2 finale of '' Star Trek: Picard''.


Post-''Star Trek''

Wheaton played Joey Trotta in the action film ''
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'' (1991). After leaving ''Star Trek'', he moved to
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, to work for
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, 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
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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
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s, including the award-winning '' The Good Things'' (2001), in which he portrays a frustrated Kansas
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worker. For his performance in '' Jane White Is Sick & Twisted'' (2002) he received the award for Best Actor at the
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.


Voice work

Wheaton has worked as a voice actor in animation, video games and audiobooks, beginning with the role of Martin Brisby in ''
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'' at age 10. His most noteworthy credits include the roles of
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in the cartoons ''
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'' and ''
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'', the voice of radio journalist Richard Burns in '' Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'', Kyle in the
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cartoon, '' Kyle + Rosemary'' as well as himself and various other characters on both ''
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'' and ''
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''. Wheaton also featured as the second
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, on '' Batman: The Brave and the Bold'', Dr. Peter Meechum in ''
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'', Mike Morningstar / Darkstar in '' Ben 10: Alien Force'', '' Ben 10: Ultimate Alien'' & '' Ben 10: Omniverse''. Wheaton took upon the
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roles of Yakumo in '' Kurokami: The Animation'', Menma in ''
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'', Hans in ''
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'', Aaron Terzieff in ''
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''. He appeared as himself in a skit on
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rapper
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's 2008 album '' Final Boss'' attempting to be a rapper, whose rhymes only involved
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. 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
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". Wheaton has narrated a number of bestselling audiobooks, mostly in the
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and fantasy category, including ''
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'' by
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(Wheaton also exists in the novel's universe, described as being joint President along with
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, of the OASIS User Council in the virtual world, which is the setting for much of the book) and its sequel ''
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'', ''Armada'', also by Cline, '' Redshirts'' by
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, ''Fuzzy Nation'' by Scalzi, and books 6–10 of the ''
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'' series by
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.


Television and web

Wheaton was a contestant on a 2001 episode of ''
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'' 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 ''
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'', and the October 22, 2008, episode of the series ''
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'', and appeared in Internet presentations, including a cameo in a comedy sketch ("Lock Out") for ''
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'' (and a reprise of the same the following year, in ''CommodoreHustle 4''), and the May 30, 2008, episode of the Internet series ''
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''. From 2009 to 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 ''
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'', 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 ''
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'', 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 ''
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'', 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
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, 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 ''
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'', 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 ''
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''. Wheaton played Alexander Rook in the
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TV series ''
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,'' based on the eponymous comic book.


Hosting

From September 2006 to September 2007, Wheaton hosted a
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syndicated video
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called '' InDigital'' along with Jessica Corbin and Hahn Choi. He hosted a
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video on the Mars
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which landed on Monday August 6, 2012. He has hosted "2nd Watch", interviews with cast members and producers of the science-fiction series ''
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'' 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
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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 ''
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''
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''
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'' since the second season in 2020.


Other ventures


Games

In 2003, Wheaton mentioned his love for the game of
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on his blog. The following year, he began writing more extensively about his poker-playing experiences, including stories about playing
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tournaments locally and in
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. Eventually, he worked up to regular play, including a run at the 2005
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Championships. On June 23, 2005, Wheaton accepted an invitation to join
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. He went on to play in that year's
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and was the guest speaker for the 2005
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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 ''
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'' player, and played during the PAX 2010 event using the 4th edition rules. Wheaton, along with webcartoonists
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and
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of
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, and
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of PvP, played in front of a live audience. The game was hosted and recorded by
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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. Wheaton hosts the web series ''
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'' that he created with
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, 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
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cable television. Wheaton starred in the
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-funded game '' There Came an Echo'' by Iridium Studios. In ''
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'', he became the dungeon master of
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quests.
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of America announced on Twitter that Wheaton would be voicing
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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
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's ''
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'' 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
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in
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, and wrote a profile of
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for the 2015
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.


Comic book

A fictionalized version of Wheaton was included in the comic book '' PS 238'', in which he harbors the power of
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. Wheaton's debut comic book ''The Guild: Fawkes,'' which he wrote alongside
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, was released on May 23, 2012.


Audiobooks

Wheaton has recorded several of his non-self-published books as downloadable
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s. 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

Wheaton provided the voice-over for the digital
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''Trial of the Clone''.


Live shows

Wheaton has performed improvisational and
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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
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, Wil Wheaton Dot Net. Between 2001 and late 2004, he operated a message board, known as "The
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" or "
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", as part of the blog site. Two collections of writings taken from postings to the message board have been published, titled ''Boxer Shorts'' () and ''Boxer Shorts Redux'' (). He contributes regularly to the Los Angeles-based Metroblogging site. In June 2005, he became that month's featured Tech writer for the
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Newswire. In early 2003, he founded the independent publishing company Monolith Press and released a memoir entitled ''
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''. 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
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with a three-book contract.
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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. In 2008, Subterranean Press published a special expanded edition. 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
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, releasing paperback and digital copies, something he has continued to do with all his publications since. As a
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, ''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
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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
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license. In 2017, Wheaton wrote the short story "Laina" for the ''
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'' 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''. In 2022, Wheaton published '' Still Just a Geek'', an annotated memoir that includes extensive (and often constructively self-critical) author's commentary on ''Just a Geek'', as well as previously unpublished work.


Politics

Wheaton described himself as a
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in 2005. In a column that he wrote for
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in 2005, ''The Real War on Christmas'', Wheaton attacked conservative commentators like Bill O'Reilly,
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and
Sean Hannity Sean Patrick Hannity (born December 30, 1961) is an American talk show host, conservative political commentator, and author. He is the host of ''The Sean Hannity Show'', a nationally syndicated talk radio show, and has also hosted a commentar ...
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
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in the 2016 general election. Immediately following the
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on November 5, 2017, Wheaton on Twitter stated in response to Congressman
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'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". He has also been vocal about criticizing other entertainers he disagrees with, such as
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, after his "
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" special, and
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, after a Facebook algorithm recommended a PewDiePie fan group to Wil Wheaton.


Personal life

Wheaton married Anne Prince on November 7, 1999, and lives in
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, 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
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while they were both students at
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. They met at a showing of ''
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'' in Burbank, California. In January 2021, Wheaton announced he had been sober from alcohol for five years. Wheaton lives with
complex post-traumatic stress disorder Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD; also known as complex trauma disorder) is a psychological disorder that is theorized to develop in response to exposure to a series of traumatic events in a context in which the individual perceive ...
generalized anxiety disorder Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a mental and behavioral disorder, specifically an anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry about events or activities. Worry often interferes with daily function ...
and
chronic depression Dysthymia ( ), also known as persistent depressive disorder (PDD), is a mental and behavioral disorder, specifically a disorder primarily of mood, consisting of similar cognitive and physical problems as major depressive disorder, but with lon ...
. He supports mental health nonprofit organizations in raising awareness for these conditions. In 2022 Wheaton participated in ''Celebrity Jeopardy!,'' playing for the National Women’s Law Center. He reached the finals, defeating
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and
Hasan Minhaj Hasan Minhaj ( ; born September 23, 1985) is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host of Indian descent. His Netflix show ''Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj'' won two Peabody Awards and two Webby Aw ...
in the quarterfinals, and
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and
Joel Kim Booster Joel Alexander Kim Booster (born Kim Joonmin; February 29, 1988) is a South Korean-born American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. He co-produced and wrote for '' Big Mouth'' and ''The Other Two'' and as an actor has appeared on '' Shrill'', ...
in the semifinals.


Honors

*
Young Artist Awards The Young Artist Award (originally known as the Youth in Film Award) is an accolade presented by the Young Artist Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1978 to honor excellence of youth performers, and to provide scholarships for young ...
: 1989 & 1987 *
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: Best Actor (2002) *International Academy of Web Television Awards: Best Host (Pre-Recorded) (2014) An asteroid was named after him: 391257 Wilwheaton.


Filmography


Films and television films


TV shows and appearances


Web shows and series


Animation


Video games


Bibliography

* ''
Dancing Barefoot "Dancing Barefoot" is a rock song written by Patti Smith and Ivan Král, and released as a second single from the Patti Smith Group's 1979 album ''Wave''. According to the album sleeve, the song was dedicated to women such as Amedeo Modigliani's ...
'' () (2004) * '' Just a Geek'' () (2004) * ''Stories of Strength'' () (2005; contributor) * ''The Happiest Days of Our Lives'' () (2007) * ''Sunken Treasure'' (2009) * ''Memories of the Future Vol. 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) * '' Still Just a Geek'' () (2022)


References


Further reading

* Holmstrom, John. ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995''. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 390-391. * Wheaton, Wil
"My name is Wil Wheaton. I Live With Chronic Depression and Generalized Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed."
Medium.com, June 1, 2018.


External links

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Wil Wheaton talks about his depression and anxiety

WWdN: In Exile
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