Wil Wheaton first gained international attention by starring in the Rob Reiner film Stand by Me. Wheaton left the Hollywood scene for 18 months to pursue personal video production, including trying to live as a hobo on the USA's railroads. He then returned to Los Angeles, California, afterward and is working on many projects.


Plays guitar and golf. Wil's first big break in acting was opposite Bill Cosby in a Jell-O Pudding Pops commercial. He said a few lines on Chunky A's (Arsenio Hall's) song "Dope, the Big Lie," which appears on the Chunky A album "Large and in Charge." Wil's two children, Ryan Thomas Kopp and Nolan Eric Kopp, are actually his step-children. Wil is a lifelong fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, and he is also an avid player of video games, which lead to his voice-over role in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) (VG). Played as part of the PokerStars.com team in the 2005 World Series of Poker. According to Wheaton's book "Just a Geek," several of his "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) cast mates, including Jonathan Frakes, nicknamed (and still call) him Teen Idol, while Brent Spiner calls him Miltie. Was one of the first bloggers. In 1988, Wil Power was the name of his Nickelodeon-based club for all Trek and non-Trek fans. Recently designed/created a tee for the one-item-a-day-sale spin off of woot.com, shirt.woot.com . It is entitled "How We Roll".