British composer of library and stage/screen music.
Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA in drama.
2002: Nominated for a Tony award for his role of Curly in Oklahoma.
His father, John, and his brother, Mark, are both TV anchormen at WTVT in Tampa, Florida. His mother, Mary K., is a professional singer and voice teacher.
He was awarded the Charles Willard Memorial Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Music Theatre while studying at Carnegie-Mellon.
Was a soloist with the Mostly Pops Orchestra and Canton Symphony Orchestra.
He was offered the Oklahoma lead after he sang "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin" in an audition for director Trevor Nunn.
His college roommate, Matthew Stocke , was later his understudy in The Full Monty.
He named his horse from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Frodo.
Was twice nominated for Broadways Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical: for The Full Monty in 2001 and for the role of Curly in Oklahoma in 2002.
Son, Kalin Patrick Wilson, born 23 June 2006. He weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces and was 20 1/4 inches long.
Brother-in-law of Marika Dominczyk and her husband, Scott Foley ; Sean Foley ; and Veronika Dominczyk.
Plays on the Broadway Show League.
His grandmother Carol resided in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, until her death in 2013.
Wilson has a tattoo of the letters KPW on his arm for the initials of his first son.
Before being cast in Watchmen , he auditioned for roles in two other comic book-based movies, Fantastic Four and Daredevil .
His wife, Dagmara Dominczyk , gave birth to their second son, Kassian McCarrell Wilson, on August 9, 2009.
Claims that Tom Hanks was his inspiration for becoming an actor.
Sang "God Bless America" a cappella during the seventh-inning stretch at Yankee Stadium during the 2010 playoffs.
(September 2008) Starring with John Lithgow , Dianne Wiest , and Katie Holmes in Broadways "All My Sons".
He has English, as well as Scottish and Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), and distant German and Welsh, ancestry.
Is a New York Yankees fan.
He received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A. He was also the Commencement Speaker at the 185th Commencement Exercise at Trinity College on May 22, 2011.
He was awarded the 1996 Drama Logue Award for Performance for "Carousel" in the Royal National Theatre production at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
Good friends with Vera Farmiga.
He has appeared in three different films based on DC Comics properties: He played Dan Dreiberg/Nite Owl in Watchmen , he played the United States President in Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice and he was cast as Orm/Ocean Master in Aquaman.
Drummer for Weezer and his own band The Special Goodness.
Also played in The Rentals, a band formed by another Weezer member Matt Sharp.
In addition to his drum duties, Wilson has three song co-writing credits on Weezer songs - "The World has Turned and Left Me Here," "Surf Wax America," "My Name is Jonas" - and solo writing credits on "Automatic" and "In the Mall.".
Wilson records and performs with his own band, The Special Goodness, for which he writes songs, performs vocals, and plays the majority of the instruments. The band has released several albums, and Wilson himself has made songs available on his website in the past.
Wilson and Weezer guitarist Brian Bell collaborated on a cover of the Velvet Underground song "Heroin" for the 2006 film Factory Girl.
Wilson wrote and performed lead vocals/guitars on "Automatic," on Weezers third self-titled album.
Wilson and Bell were given small roles in the film as John Cale and Lou Reed, respectively.
Wilson has been an Executive Producer for the No Agenda podcast.
Almost immediately after Weezers initial success, Wilson played drums on The Rentals first record Return of the Rentals but never toured with the band.
Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly failed, come to wonder how we ever manage to understand, and how we know that we have succeeded.
With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor. .
