Wil Wheaton

Wil Wheaton interests me less as an actor than as a survivor with a keyboard. Child stardom in Stand by Me and Star Trek: The Next Generation chews most people up, and early internet fandom was openly cruel to him. Instead of disappearing, he wrote his way out: blogging early and candidly, publishing books, becoming an elder statesman of geek culture who speaks honestly about a rough start. I respect reinvention that comes from self-examination rather than rebranding, and his is exactly that. He turned being typecast into being trusted, which is a far rarer career achievement than another acting credit.

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Name (English)

Wil Wheaton

Name (Japanese)

ウィル・ウィトン

Reading

うぃる・うぃとん

Born

July 29, 1972 (age 54)

Origin

Burbank, California, United States

Occupation

actor / writer / poker player / voice actor / blogger

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rat

High school

Crescenta Valley High School

University

University of California, Los Angeles

• Official sitehttps://wilwheaton.net
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/itswilwheaton/
• Xhttps://x.com/wilw
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil%20Wheaton
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q264699

Tags

• California
• actor
• writer
• poker player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.