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| Birth Name(s) : Noah Strausser Speer Wyle |
Date of Birth: June 4, 1971 |
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Married
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Partner:
Tracy Warbin |
| Profession:
Actor |
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| Born in Hollywood, CA, as one of six children of an electrical engineer and an orthopedic head nurse. Participated in a theater arts program at Northwestern University during high school and appeared in high school plays. After graduation he learned from acting teacher Larry Moss while living in a small apartment on Hollywood Boulevard. His first parts were a mini-series and featuring in the movie Crooked Hearts (1991) in 1990. |
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Additional Noah Wyle Biography
Noah Strausser Speer Wyle (born June 4, 1971; last name pronounced IPA: /ˈwaɪli/) is an American TV and film actor, perhaps best known for his role as Dr. John Carter on the television drama ER.
Wyle, one of six children, was born in Hollywood, California, to Marjorie (Speer), a registered orthopedic head nurse, and Stephen Wyle, an electrical engineer. Noah's parents eventually split in the late seventies and his mother later remarried to James C. Katz, a film restorationist. Wyle's paternal grandparents, Edith and Frank Wyle, founded the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum. Edith Wyle was an expressionist painter who also created The Egg and The Eye, an innovative café and shop on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles, which soon became the preferred hangout for artists, travelers and dreamers. Wyle was raised in a Reform Jewish home. He attended The Thacher School and graduated with the class of 1989. Wyle participated in a theater arts program at Northwestern University after his junior year of high school and appeared in high school plays even winning an award for a play he wrote. After graduation he studied with acting teacher Larry Moss while living in a small apartment on Hollywood Boulevard.
While first seen in the Paul Bartel film "Lust in the Dust" as an extra in the local gang running the small town of Chile' Verde; substantive roles came later. His then uncle John Katz was a producer on the western exploitation / parody which also starred Divine, Tab Hunter and Lanie Kazan.
Along with his film and TV career, Noah has also been making some theater moves. Among others he appeared in a Los Angeles stage production of The 24th Day with Peter Berg in 1995, and with The Blank Theatre Company,he did the play "The Who", and more recentely he did "Lobster Alice", with Nicholas Brendon, where he played surrealist paintor Salvador Dalí, as a producer he will premiere "Missouri Waltz" soon.
According to the Guinness World Records 2005 Special 50th Anniversary Edition, Wyle ostentated a "Highest paid TV drama actor per episode" record during the 2003/04 season, earning approximately $400,000 per episode. While on ER, Wyle's estimated salary was $9 million a year.
He was linked to several women during ER´s first seasons including Samantha Mathis, "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston and ER co-star Sherry Stringfield. While filming The Myth of Fingerprints in 1996, he met make-up artist Tracy Warbin and eventually married her on May 6, 2000, after proposing to her on Valentine´s Day the year before. Together they have a son, Owen Strausser Speer Wyle, born November 9, 2002, and announced on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno the couple's second pregnancy, daughter Auden Wyle was born October 15, 2005. He and his family are vegetarians.
In 1999, Wyle made an appearance during the beginning of Steve Jobs' Macworld Expo Keynote presentation, initially pretending to be Jobs. When the audience caught on, Jobs himself appeared and began to banter with Wyle. It was a practical joke by Jobs and Wyle in light of the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, although he was erroneously credited and introduced as "Noah Wylie" by Jobs.
Wyle devotes much of his free time to the international non-profit organization Doctors of the World and to his work as a member of the Human Rights Watch Council. Wyle also serves as the voluntary artistic producer of the Blank Theatre Company in Hollywood, which stages annual young playwrights festival and whose alumni include Ed Asner, Sarah Michelle Gellar, D.B. Sweeney, James Kerwin, Amber Benson, Megan Henning, Travis Schuldt, Warren Davis, Grant Show, and Nicholas Brendon. He also recently acquired Second Stage Theater in Hollywood, where the company has mounted numerous successful productions.
Wyle bought Bo Derek's ranch in Santa Ynez Valley, California, in June 1999, for approximately $2.5 million. In 2006, it was reported that the Wyles like the ranch so much that they're selling their five-bedroom, 4 1/2-bathroom in-town house so they can spend more time in the country. They listed their Los Feliz (Los Angeles) home at close to $4.4 million. The traditional-style house was designed by architect Paul Williams (architect), was built in 1934 and has a theater, a detached guesthouse-office and a landscaped yard with city views, a pool, a koi pond, a patio and a fire pit.
Was the spokesperson for The Cover the Uninsured campaign in 2004, which had as Honorary Co-Chairs former Presidents Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter. The Cover the Uninsured Week is annually held in the United States of America and focuses attention on the plight of nearly 44 million Americans who go without health care coverage. The campaign includes several events among different communities, health and enrollment fairs, press conferences and business seminars all over the U.S. |
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| It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience. |
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