In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Wheaton appeared in several independent films, including the award-winning The Good Things (2001), in which he portrays a frustrated Kansas tollbooth worker. Īfterward, he returned to Los Angeles, attended acting school for five years, and then re-entered the acting world. After leaving Star Trek, he moved to Topeka, Kansas, to work for NewTek, 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 technology evangelist for the product. Wheaton played Joey Trotta in the action film Toy Soldiers (1991). 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. And I know, just over the years from people who've e-mailed me at my website and people who I've talked to since I started going to Star Trek conventions again in the last five years, that there are so many more people who really enjoyed everything about the show, including my performance, including the character. Later, I determined that the people who were really, really cruel – like the Usenet weenies – really are a statistically insignificant number of people. Wheaton commented about his critics in a 2004 interview for WebTalk Radio: The Wesley Crusher character is a "polarizing" character while some Star Trek fans love him, others are vocal about their hatred for the character. He appeared in an additional four episodes of the remaining three seasons. Wheaton played Wesley Crusher, a "boy genius and Starfleet hopeful", during the first four seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In addition to being successful at the box office, Stand by Me was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama and became known as a coming-of-age classic.
In her review of the film, Sheila Benson of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Wheaton makes Gordie's 'sensitivity' tangible, but not effete. In Stand by Me, Wheaton played the lead role of Gordie Lachance, a 12-year-old storyteller mourning the loss of his elder brother.
Wheaton first gained widespread attention for his work in Stand by Me (1986), the film adaptation of Stephen King's novella The Body. Wheaton also appeared in Hambone and Hillie (1983), The Buddy System (1984) (opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Susan Sarandon),and the Last Starfighter.
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He voiced the character of Martin in the animated film The Secret of NIMH (1982), the movie adaptation of Robert C.
Wheaton made his acting debut in the television film A Long Way Home (1981), which starred Timothy Hutton. He also stated that his parents forced him to become an actor. Īs an adult, Wheaton described his father as being abusive to him as a child and his mother as being an enabler of that abuse. Amy appeared alongside Wil in the 1987 film The Curse. 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". Wheaton was born July 29, 1972, in Burbank, California, to Debra "Debbie" Nordean (née O'Connor), an actress, and Richard William Wheaton Jr., a medical specialist.