Patrick Wilson
Patrick Wilson (actor)
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Wilson was born in Norfolk, Virginia to Mary K. Wilson, a voice teacher and professional singer, and John Wilson, who works as news anchor for Fox affiliate WTVT in Tampa, Florida. John Wilson was the news anchor at WAVY TV in Portsmouth, Virginia at the time of Patrick's birth. Wilson's brother, Mark, also works at WTVT in Tampa as a news anchor and reporter. His other brother, Paul, runs a successful media relations/advertising company in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area.
Wilson graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
On 18 June 2005, Wilson married Polish-American actress Dagmara Dominczyk, also a Carnegie Mellon graduate. (He graduated in 1995 with a drama degree; she graduated in 1998.) They have two sons, Kalin Patrick (b. 23 June 2006), and Kassian McCarrel (b. 9 August 2009)
Career
Wilson won critical acclaim for his performance in Mike Nichols' 2003 drama HBO mini-series Angels in America . He received both a Golden Globe nomination and an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He played Joe Pitt, a Mormon, Republican and sexually confused, but in the end, gay, lawyer.
Next he appeared in The Alamo in 2004. In the same year, he appeared in The Phantom of the Opera . He starred alongside Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum.
In 2006, he had his first star billing film role when he was cast as Brad Adamson in Todd Field's Little Children opposite Kate Winslet.
That same year he appeared in the Golden Globe-nominated Running With Scissors as Michael Shephard; the film was an adaptation of Augusten Burroughs's best-selling memoir of the same name. Note: He plays an IRS Agent and appears on screen for approximately 30 seconds.
In 2008, he starred in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace as Chris Mattson opposite Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington and Jay Hernandez.
Wilson plays Nite Owl II/Dan Dreiberg in Zack Snyder's 2009 film adaptation of the graphic novel Watchmen . For this role he had to gain 25 pounds after filming flashback scenes as the slimmer Nite Owl II. This film reunited Wilson with his Little Children co-star Jackie Earle Haley. He played the primary antagonist Lynch in 2010's The A-Team .
Wilson was recently confirmed to voice a variety of villains in the feature Buggs P.I. with Ben Stiller, Will Arnett and (rumoured) Dolph Lundgren. He is set for the lead role in James Wan's horror film Insidious.
Theater credits
