Noah Wyle

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.

Noah Strausser Speer Wyle (born June 4, 1971) is an American actor, producer, director, and writer.

Wyle was first seen in the Paul Bartel 1985 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 Chili Verde.

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.

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.

His later roles were a mini-series and featuring in the movie Crooked Hearts (1991) in 1990.

He has appeared in films such as A Few Good Men (1992), Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999), Donnie Darko (2001), and W. (2008).

In 1993 he appeared in another feature film, 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.

Wyle starred in the original film The Librarian: Quest for the Spear with Sonya Walger, 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 latest work dealing with The Librarian is a series called The Librarians.

It focuses on three additional new librarians who are brought into the library at a time of cataclysmic events.

In the beginning of the series, Noah Wyle was more of a co-star, versus his original role of the main character.

In the following seasons, he had more and more appearances.

Until, with the latest season, he 'supposedly' quit the job of The Librarian.

He is best known for his role as John Carter in the television series ER (1994–2009), which earned him nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and five Primetime Emmy Awards.

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.

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.

Along with his film and television career, Wyle is also Artistic Producer of The Blank Theatre Company located in Hollywood, California.

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 season 11, although he returned in guest appearances for a four-episode arc during season 12.

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.

He is also known for his roles as Flynn Carsen in The Librarian franchise including three TV movies The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004), The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mine (2006), and The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice (2008) then returning for the television series (2013–2018) and Tom Mason in the television series Falling Skies (2011–2015).

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.

However, in 2009, Wyle returned to ER during its fifteenth and final season for five episodes, including the series finale.

Wyle was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for his role as Daniel Calder in the television miniseries The Red Line (2019).

Wyle, the middle of three children, was born in Los Angeles, 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), whereas his mother was Episcopalian, and he was raised "fairly nondenominationally", around both faiths.