Early life

Wyle, the middle of three children, was born in Hollywood, California, the son of Marjorie (née Speer), a registered orthopedic head nurse, and Stephen Wyle, an electrical engineer and entrepreneur. His father was Jewish (of Russian Jewish descent) and his mother Episcopalian, and he was raised "fairly nondenominationally", around both faiths. Wyle's parents divorced in the late 1970s, and his mother later married James C. Katz, a film restorationist with three children of his own from a previous marriage. Wyle's paternal grandparents, Edith and Frank Wyle, founded the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, and his grandfather also founded Wyle Laboratories. Edith R. Wyle was an expressionist painter who also created The Egg and The Eye, a café and shop in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles.

Wyle was educated at The Thacher School in Ojai, California, and graduated with the class of 1989. Wyle participated in a Theatre 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.

Career

ER

Wyle’s big break came when he was given the pilot script for ER and was cast as medical student John Carter. He was the youngest member when he joined the cast. Wyle was the only major cast member of ER to have been with the show since its inception (1994) when he left after its eleventh season (2005). His performances on the show earned him Emmy Award nominations in each of its first five seasons. As part of an ensemble he was nominated several times for the Screen Actors Guild Award, he was recognized with three Golden Globe nominations as Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television and won the 2001 TV Guide Award for Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Wyle left the series at the end of the eleventh season, although he returned in guest appearances for a four-episode arc during the twelfth season. He stated that he left because he wanted to spend more time with his family and friends and to make room for the upcoming generation. However, in 2009, Wyle returned to ER during its fifteenth and final season for five episodes, including the series finale. According to the Guinness World Records 2005 Special 50th Anniversary Edition, Wyle became the holder of a "Highest paid TV drama actor per episode" record during the 2003-2004 tenth season, earning approximately $400,000 per episode. While on ER, Wyle's estimated salary was $9 million a year. Wyle has also appeared in the most episodes of ER, 254, four more than Laura Innes.*

Film

Wyle was first seen in the Paul Bartel film Lust in the Dust (a western exploitation/parody which starred Tab Hunter, Lainie Kazan, and Divine) as an extra in the local gang running the small town of Chile' Verde.

His later parts were a mini-series and featuring in the movie Crooked Hearts (1991) in 1990. In 1993 he worked in another feature, There Goes My Baby. After appearing in several local plays in Los Angeles, he was cast in the box-office hit A Few Good Men, in which he played a Marine jeep driver who testified in court. He also appeared in the feature Swing Kids as Emil Lutz, a leader in the Hitler Youth, and in the independent movie The Myth of Fingerprints with Roy Scheider, Blythe Danner, and Julianne Moore. Additionally, he starred as Lancelot opposite Sheryl Lee in the Television movie Guinevere. Recently, Wyle starred in the original film The Librarian: Quest for the Spear with Sonya Walger and in its sequel The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines opposite Gabrielle Anwar and in the third part of the series The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice alongside Stana Katic.

His other work has included a critically acclaimed turn as Steve Jobs in the Emmy-nominated Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999). Steve Jobs was so impressed with the performance that he invited Wyle to step on stage as him at the opening of his annual speech at the Apple convention. He has also appeared in several feature films, including White Oleander opposite Renée Zellweger, Enough opposite Jennifer Lopez, the independent feature Donnie Darko, as the President's interpreter in the 2000 live-television production of Fail Safe, and in the independent film The Californians.

Stage

Along with his film and television career, Wyle is also Artistic Producer of The Blank Theatre Company located in Hollywood, California. With the company, he has appeared on stage in the 1995 production of The 24th Day with Peter Berg, The Who (as part of the company's Young Playwrights Festival), and Lobster Alice, opposite Nicholas Brendon, where he played the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

For his work as one of the producers of 2005 Los Angeles Production of Michael John LaChiusa's The Wild Party, he won an NAACP Theatre Award.

Falling Skies

Wyle starred as the lead in TNT's sci-fi series Falling Skies. Wyle plays Tom Mason, a former Boston University history professor who becomes the second-in-command of the 2nd Massachusetts Militia Regiment, a group of civilians and fighters fleeing post-apocalyptic Boston while fighting aliens who have wiped out 90% of humanity. He is also the father of three boys, one of whom is captured by the aliens. Wyle's performance earned him BuddyTV's #91 position on its list of "TV's Sexiest Men of 2011".

Personal life

Marriage, family and residence

Noah met his first wife, make-up artist Tracy Warbin, on the set of The Myth of Fingerprints. They married in 2000 and have a son, Owen Strausser Speer Wyle (born November 9, 2002), and a daughter, Auden Wyle (born October 15, 2005). Wyle and Warbin separated in 2009 and divorced in 2010.

Wyle married Sara Wells in June 2014 in California. The couple met in 2011 during a production at The Blank Theatre Company. Their daughter Frances Harper Wyle was born on June 22, 2015.

Appearances, interests, and philanthropy

Wyle opened the 1999 NY Macworld Expo keynote, initially posing as Apple Inc.'s Steve Jobs. It was a practical joke on the audience, engineered by Jobs and Wyle in light of the 1999 TNT film, Pirates of Silicon Valley.

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 an 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 (Los Angeles) in Hollywood, where the company has mounted numerous successful productions.

Wyle 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 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. Additionally, Wyle is a supporter of animal rights and a spokesman for the World Wildlife Fund, dedicated to protecting and conserving wildlife for future generations.

In 2009, Wyle became a spokesperson for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), claiming that polar bears are "hanging on by a thread" and "may be extinct in our children's lifetime, due to the effects of climate change."

In 2012, Wyle supported the disability rights group ADAPT. On April 23, he was arrested during a protest on Capitol Hill to fight against Medicaid cuts for the elderly and people with disabilities.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Lust in the Dust	Young Man	Uncredited
1991	Crooked Hearts	Ask
1992	A Few Good Men	Cpl. Jeffrey Barnes
1993	Swing Kids	Emil Lutz
1994	There Goes My Baby	Michael Finnegan
1994	Guinevere	Lancelot
1997	The Myth of Fingerprints	Warren
1999	Can't Stop Dancing	Poe
2000	Fail Safe	Buck
2001	Scenes of the Crime	Seth
2001	Donnie Darko	Prof. Kenneth Monnitoff
2002	White Oleander	Mark Richards
2002	Enough	Robbie
2005	The Californians	Gavin Ransom
2008	W.	Donald Evans
2008	Nothing But the Truth	Avril Aaronson
2009	An American Affair	Mike Stafford
2010	Queen of the Lot	Arron Lambert
2010	Below the Beltway	Hunter Patrick
2013	Snake and Mongoose	Arthur Spear
2013	The World Made Straight	Leonard
2017	Felt		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Blind Faith	Eric	Television miniseries
1994-2009	ER	Dr. John Carter	Main role, 254 episodes
1995	Friends	Dr. Jeffrey Rosen	2 episodes
1995	The Larry Sanders Show'	Himself	Episode: "Eight"
1996	Sesame Street	Dr. Colburn	2 episodes "Maria Goes to the Hospital
1999	Pirates of Silicon Valley	Steve Jobs	TNT original television movie
2000	Beggers and Choosers	Davis G. Green	Episode: "The Naked Truth"
2004	The Librarian: Quest for the Spear	Flynn Carsen	TNT original television movie
2006	The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines	Flynn Carsen	TNT original television movie. Producer
2008	The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice	Flynn Carsen	TNT original television movie. Producer
2011-2015	Falling Skies	Tom Mason	Lead role, 52 episodes. Producer
2013	Lab Rats	Dr. Evans	Episode: "Twas the Mission Before Christmas"
2014-present	The Librarians	Flynn Carsen	Recurring. Executive Producer. Director: Episode 2.05
2014	Phineas and Ferb	Martin the News Vendor, Additional Voices	Voice role, Episode: "Night of the Living Pharmacists"
2015	Drunk History	Thomas Nast	Episode: "Journalism"

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
1995	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	ER	Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series		Nominated
	Viewers for Quality Television	Best Supporting Actor in a Quality Drama Series		Nominated
1996	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series		Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series		Won
1997	Golden Globe Awards	Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film		Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series		Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series		Won
	Viewers for Quality Television	Best Supporting Actor in a Quality Drama Series		Nominated
1998	Golden Globe Awards	Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film		Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series		Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series		Won
	Viewers for Quality Television	Best Supporting Actor in a Quality Drama Series		Nominated
1999	Golden Globe Awards	Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film		Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series		Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series		Won
	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV Actor		Nominated
2000	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series		Nominated
2001				Nominated
2003	Prism Awards	Performance in a Drama Series		Won
2005	Saturn Awards	Best Actor on Television	The Librarian: Quest for the Spear	Nominated
2007			The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines	Nominated
2009			The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice	Nominated
2011	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Summer TV Star: Male	Falling Skies	Nominated
2012	Saturn Awards	Best Actor on Television		Nominated
2014				Nominated
2015				Nominated

Charities

Noah Wyle supports the following charitable causes: Environment, Children, Human Rights, Animals, Health Care, Leukemia.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]