Patrick Wilson Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Producer , Composer more
Birth name Patrick Joseph Wilson
Nationality American
Birth July 3, 1973 (Norfolk, Virginia, United States)

BIOGRAPHY
After studying at Carnegie Mellon University, Patrick Wilson turned to comedy and made his stage debut in The Full Monty and Oklahoma . Two plays which marked the beginning of his artistic recognition, while his performances earned him several nominations for the Tony Awards, Drama Desk Awards and Drama League Awards.

It was in the independent film My Sister’s Wedding that Patrick Wilson played his first film role. But this feature film was not a huge success. The actor then went to the small screen, for the needs of the series Angels in America , directed by Mike Nichols and in which he plays a homosexual who has difficulty coming to terms with himself. A role that earned him a Golden Globe and Emmy Award nomination.

In 2003, for his second role in the cinema, Patrick Wilson shared the bill with big names in American cinema, since Alamo earned him opposite Dennis Quaid and Billy Bob Thornton . But it is with his participation in The Phantom of the Opera , by Joel Schumacher , that the actor begins to meet his audience.

Comfortable with all registers, the actor headlined Hard Candy , which was a huge success at the Sundance Festival and in which he played a pedophile photographer opposite Elliot Page . With Little Children , the actor indulges in drama and stars alongside Jennifer Connelly and Kate Winslet . The accuracy of his interpretation in this disturbing film is a turning point in the actor’s career, which we then find in Harcelés , psychological thriller by Neil LaBute , where, against a backdrop of ordinary racism, he finds himself stalked by his neighbor , Samuel L. Jackson .

Eclectic, Patrick Wilson has moved from 2009 onwards between big budget films ( Watchmen – The Guardians , The A-Team , Prometheus ), dramatic comedies ( Morning Glory , Young Adult ) and genre cinema. It is in this last register that the actor’s career flourished, thanks to his meeting with James Wan . This horror prodigy directs Insidious (2010) and its sequel (in which a family faces demons), as well as in Conjuring: The Warren Files(2013). Inspired by a real-life couple of paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, the feature film was a success and gave rise to the most lucrative horror franchise of all time, including the spin-offs Annabelle and The Nun .

Alongside this success, the actor appears in a number of productions that have remained unpublished in France ( Stretch , Jack Strong , Dangerous Housewife , Desert Gun , etc.). We also come across his clear gaze on television, during an episode of Girls , or in the credits of A Gifted Man – centered on an egocentric neurosurgeon who communicates with the ghost of his wife – and season 2 of Fargo .

At the end of the 2010s, he returned to blockbusters thanks to two filmmakers he knows well, Zack Snyder ( Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ) and James Wan ( Aquaman ), and to a specialist in the genre: Roland Emmerich . The German director directs him in the war film Midway (2019) and the sci-fi film Moonfall (2022).

In 2023, Patrick Wilson moves on to direct with Insidious: The Red Door , the fifth opus of the franchise and third installment dedicated to the Lambert family. For the occasion, he reunites with his partners from the first two films, Ty Simpkins , Rose Byrne and Andrew Astor .