![]() ![]() However, he prefers to work in TV and has appearanced in a number of shows including Billions, The Big Bang Theory, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Scream Queens. He was also in a Mariah Carey music video as her cheating boyfriend. He was also the sheriff in the 2014 Veronica Mars film. Vern was Jerry O'Connell's first feature-film role, but most of O'Connell's fame and success came from parts he took later in life as an older teen and adult.įrom 1995 to 1999, he starred as the main character of the sci-fi show Sliders, in 1996 he was in comedies like Jerry Maguire and Joe's Apartment, and in 1997 he even joined the cast of Scream 2. But in spite of all the teasing, the boys truly care about Vern, with Gordie even risking his life to save Vern from an oncoming train when the group crosses a bridge. ![]() Vern Tessio can sometimes seem like the punching bag of the group. He also cowrote an alternate-history science-fiction book with author Harry Turtledove called The Two Georges. He's been married three times - to Jeramie Rain, Janelle Lacey, and Svetlana Erokhin - and has three children from his first marriage. ![]() Outside of acting, he founded the the Dreyfuss Civics Initiative in 2008, a nonprofit organization that promotes giving civics lessons in public classrooms. Holland's Opus and Golden Globe nominations for Opus and Nuts. Afterwards, he earned an Oscar nomination for Mr. Since Stand by Me is framed as a story written by a now-adult Gordie, he's actually the only kid we get to see grow up, and he's played by Richard Dreyfuss. With a career spanning all the way back to the '60s and still going strong, Dreyfuss has countless memorable roles to his name, including parts in classic films like American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and an Oscar-winning performance in The Goodbye Girl - this all before Stand by Me was even released. Still, Wheaton enjoys the community his work is a part of by attending Star Trek conventions, playing tabletop games, and performing in a sci-fi related comedy troupe. My parents forced me to do it." This pressure was compounding upon his anxiety and depression, which he has discussed frequently, along with his support of mental health-related nonprofits like NAMI and Project UROK. Perhaps the break - as well as his subsequent shift towards animated roles - was a way of getting off camera, as Wheaton said he never wanted to act anyway: "I didn’t want to be an actor when I was a kid. In his personal life, Wheaton took a break from acting for five years post- Star Trek, during which he graduated from drama school. Wheaton provided voices for recurring characters on Teen Titans, Legion of Super Heroes, and Ben 10: Alien Force, as well as for minor characters on Naruto, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. His voice work also extends into multiple Tom Clancy and Grand Theft Auto games, and he has narrated many audiobooks, among them The Martian and Ready Player Two. He's even appeared as himself in the Star Trek documentary Trekkies, in The Big Bang Theory, and as a contestant on Whose Line Is It Anyway? While the character was polarizing within the fandom, Wesley Crusher was just Wheaton's jumping-off point for a long career in nerdy entertainment, particularly as a voice actor. This was mainly because his next big part (coming just a year after Gordie) was as young Starfleet hopeful Wesley Crusher in the first four seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. After playing the sensitive young writer Gordon "Gordie" Lachance in Stand by Me, Wil Wheaton went on to become something of a staple figure in nerd culture. ![]()
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