Noah Wyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wyle at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con
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Born |
Noah Strausser Speer Wyle June 4, 1971 Hollywood, California, U.S. |
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Residence | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | Thacher School | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Northwestern University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | American film, television, and theatre actor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years active | 1984 | -Present|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Employer | Blank Theatre Company, Artistic Director | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse(s) |
Tracy Warbin (m. 2000; d. 2010) Sara Wells (m. 2014) |
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Children | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent(s) | Marjorie (née Speer) Stephen Wyle |
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Relatives | James C. Katz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards won | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominations | 25 |
Noah Strausser Speer Wyle (/ˈwaɪli/; born June 4, 1971) is an American film, television, and theatre actor. He is best known for his roles as Dr. John Carter in ER and as Tom Mason in Falling Skies. He has also played Steve Jobs in the docudrama Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999), Dr. Kenneth Monnitoff in Donnie Darko (2001), and Flynn Carsen in The Librarian franchise. Wyle was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People magazine in 2001.
Wyle, the middle of three children, was born in Hollywood, California, the son of Marjorie (née Speer), a registered orthopedic head nurse, and Stephen Wyle, an electrical engineer and entrepreneur. His father was Jewish (of Russian Jewish descent) and his mother Episcopalian, and he was raised "fairly nondenominationally", around both faiths. Wyle's parents divorced in the late 1970s, and his mother later married James C. Katz, a film restorationist with three children of his own from a previous marriage. Wyle's paternal grandparents, Edith and Frank Wyle, founded the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, and his grandfather also founded Wyle Laboratories.Edith R. Wyle was an expressionist painter who also created The Egg and The Eye, a café and shop in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles.