Wil Wheaton

American actor

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March 2025 Wil Wheaton launched 'It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton', a podcast featuring narrations of selected stories from science fiction and fantasy magazines including Lightspeed Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Clarkesworld Magazine, and On Spec.
2024 Wheaton appeared as a voice actor in the second season of the animated show Star Trek: Prodigy, continuing his involvement with the Star Trek universe.
2024 Honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award along with the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation at the Saturn Awards.
September 2024 Joined other Star Trek actors in a livestream supporting Vice President Kamala Harris's presidential campaign.
June 2024 Announced his retirement from on-screen acting.
2023 Voiced Robigus in Third Eye
2023 Returned to his iconic Star Trek role, appearing as Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: Lower Decks
2022 Wheaton returned to the Star Trek franchise, appearing in the season 2 finale of Star Trek: Picard as Wesley Crusher.
2022 Portrayed the Terran Emperor Wesley Crusher in Star Trek Online
2022 Voiced Brant Tucker in 4 episodes of The Sandman
2022 Appeared in S.W.A.T. episode 'Old School Cool' as Evan Whitlock
2022 Participated in Celebrity Jeopardy!, playing for the National Women's Law Center. Reached the finals, defeating Troian Bellisario and Hasan Minhaj in the quarterfinals, and John Michael Higgins and Joel Kim Booster in the semifinals. Finished in third place, earning $100,000.
2022 Appeared in documentary 'In Search of Tomorrow' as himself
April 12 2022 Narrated his own audiobook 'Still Just a Geek' with additional narrators
August 2021 Voiced the villainous character John Juniper in the video game I Expect You to Die 2: The Spy and the Liar.
January 2021 Wheaton announced he had been sober from alcohol for five years.
2020 Began hosting Star Trek aftershow The Ready Room from its second season
2020 Acted in the film 'Rent-A-Pal' playing the character Andy
2019 Guest appearance as End of the World Protestor in Supergirl episode 'Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part One'
2018 Voiced Flash in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies and played Perceptor in Power of the Primes
2017 Wrote the short story 'Laina' for the Star Wars anthology 'From a Certain Point of View', which celebrated the 40th anniversary of Star Wars.
2017 Voiced Jonathan Rook and additional voices in Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters, and appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy as Korvac
2017 Voiced Perceptor in 3 episodes of Transformers: Titans Return
November 5 2017 Publicly criticized Congressman Paul Ryan on Twitter following the Sutherland Springs church shooting, commenting on prayers and gun violence.
July 10 2017 Appeared as himself on Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Season 13, Episode 5)
May 4 2017 Narrated his own work 'kamaKiri'.
April 26 2017 Narrated his own work 'asteraleS'.
April 8 2017 Narrated his own work 'Dead Trees Give No Shelter'
2016 Campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the general election.
2015 Multi-year active period: Hosted Conversations with Creators, appeared as Thorbir Falbek in Critical Role, played Officer Cahoots in Con Man, and served as Game Master/Host for Titansgrave: The Ashes of Valkana
2015 Wrote a profile of Anita Sarkeesian for the Time 100, speaking out against misogyny in video game culture.
2015 Voiced multiple video game characters: Corrin in There Came an Echo and Abraham Lincoln in Code Name: S.T.E.A.M., and served as Dungeon Master in Dungeons & Dragons Online - Reign of Elemental Evil
2014 Appeared in Robot Chicken voicing Doctor Doom and a Centaur, and returned to Ben 10: Omniverse as Michael Morningstar/Darkstar
2014 Voiced Curtis The Lumberjack in the video game Broken Age
2014 Received the Best Host (Pre-Recorded) award at the International Academy of Web Television Awards.
2014 Featured in documentary 'Video Games: The Movie' as himself
2014 Appeared uncredited in 'Sharknado 2: The Second One' as himself playing an airline passenger
2014 Started appearing in Welcome to Night Vale as the character Earl Harlan, performing in 5 episodes and multiple live shows
August 29 2014 Blogged that SyFy canceled The Wil Wheaton Project after its first season
April 3 2014 Announced his new show The Wil Wheaton Project would premiere on the SyFy network on May 27
2013 Appeared as part of The Local Population in Grand Theft Auto V
December 10 2013 Narrated his own audiobook 'The Happiest Days of Our Lives: The Special Extended Edition'.
December 7 2013 Narrated his own audiobook 'Dancing Barefoot'.
November 23 2013 Narrated his own audiobook 'Just A Geek'
2012 Began hosting TableTop, a show he presented until 2017
August 6 2012 Hosted a NASA video about the Mars Curiosity rover landing
May 23 2012 Wil Wheaton released his debut comic book 'The Guild: Fawkes', co-written with Felicia Day.
2011 Wheaton voiced Robin in the DC Universe Online video game
2011 Joined the cast of Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn as Aaron Terzieff and began a main role in Redakai: Conquer the Kairu as Quantus
August 16 2011 Narrated 'Ready Player One' by Ernest Cline

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