When he isn’t acting, narrating, or podcasting, Wil Wheaton is writing. He has also lent his voice to titles by John Scalzi, Randall Monroe, and Joe Hill. His audiobook narration of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list, and was one of Goodreads’ 10 Best Narrator and Audiobook Pairings of All Time. His video game credits include four installments each of the Grand Theft Auto and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon series, as well as Fallout: New Vegas, DC Universe Online, and Broken Age. Most recently, he played a fictionalized version of himself on CBS’s The Big Bang Theory, one of the most highly rated and watched sitcoms of the last decade.Īn accomplished voice actor, Wil has lent his talents to animated series including Family Guy, Teen Titans, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Batman: The Brave and the Bold.

He is the creator, producer, and host of the wildly successful webseries Tabletop, credited with reigniting national interest in tabletop gaming. Since then, Wil has appeared in dozens of films and TV series, with recurring roles on TNT’s Leverage, SyFy’s Eureka, and the hit webseries The Guild. In 1986, at age 12, he earned critical acclaim as Gordie Lachance in Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me at 14, he began his four-year turn as Wesley Crusher on the hit TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation. He’s been doing it his whole life.īy age ten, he had already been acting for three years.

Most recently, he played a fictionalized version of himself on CBS’s The Big Bang Theory, one of the most highly rated and watc Wil Wheaton loves to tell stories. By age ten, he had already been acting for three years.

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