Wil Wheaton

Wil Wheaton
Photograph of Wil Wheaton, by Luigi Novi.[art 1]
Full nameRichard William Wheaton III
Pronounshe/him
Critical Role Productions work
Biographical information
BornJuly 29, 1972 (age 52)
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor, writer
Internet presence

Wil Wheaton is an American actor and writer. He guest starred in Critical Role's Campaign 1 playing dwarf Fighter Thorbir Falbek.

Wil is known for having very bad dice rolls, most often rolling natural ones and single digit numbers. He refers to this as the "Wheaton Dice Curse". Of the 54 rolls he performed during his guest appearance, 10 were natural ones. A "fair" dice should have rolled an average of 2.7 natural ones in that scenario.[1]

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Wil Wheaton is the creator and host of Geek & Sundry's TableTop, featuring guests such as Marisha Ray, Matthew Mercer, Travis Willingham, Troy Baker, and Ashly Burch.

In the film industry Wil mostly known for portraying Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gordie Lachance in the film Stand by Me, Joey Trotta in Toy Soldiers, and Bennett Hoenicker in Flubber. He has narrated numerous audio books, including Ready Player One, The Martian, Looking for Alaska.

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Art:

  1. Photograph of Wil Wheaton, by Luigi Novi (source). This file is a copyrighted work. Its use in this article is asserted to qualify as fair use of the material under United States copyright law.