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Date of Birth

3 July 1973, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Birth Name

Patrick Joseph Wilson

Height

6' 1" (1.85 m)

Mini Biography

Patrick Wilson has a B.F.A. in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University. His theater work has produced many nominations and awards, including: Nominated for: Best Actor in a Musical (The Full Monty) Broadway: Fascinating Rhythm (Drama League Award). Off Broadway: Bright Lights, Big City (Drama Desk Nomination, Drama League Award), Tenderloin (Encores!). National Tours: Carousel (Drama Logue Award, L.A. Ovation Nomination), Miss Saigon. Regional: Sweet Bird of Youth (La Jolla), Ciderhouse Rules (Mark Taper Forum), Romeo and Juliet: The Musical (Ordway), Lucky in the Rain (Goodspeed), Harmony (La Jolla), The Full Monty (Globe).

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Spouse

Dagmara Dominczyk

(18 June 2005 - present) 1 child

Trivia

Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a B.F.A. in drama (1995).

2002: Nominated for a Tony award for his role of Curly in Broadway's "Oklahoma".

His father, John, and his brother Mark, are both TV anchormen at WTVT in Tampa, and his mother, Mary K. is a professional singer and voice teacher.

He was awarded the Charles Willard Memorial Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Music Theatre while studying at Carnegie-Mellon.

Was a soloist with the Mostly Pops Orchestra and Canton Symphony Orchestra.

He was offered the Oklahoma! lead after he sang "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" in an audition for director Trevor Nunn.

His college roommate, Matthew Stocke, was later his understudy in "The Full Monty".

He named his horse from The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Frodo.

Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical): in 2001 for "The Full Monty" and in 2002 for his role of Curly in a revival of "Oklahoma!"

Son, Kalin Patrick Wilson, born 23 June 2006. He weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces and was 20 1/4 inches long.

Brother-in-law of Marika Dominczyk

Plays on the Broadway Show League.

His grandmother Carol, resides in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

Wilson has a tattoo of the letters KPW on his arm for the initials of his son.

Personal Quotes

"Six years ago, when I moved [to New York], I said the only things I wanted to do was originate the lead in a show, and if it was a musical, then do the recording, and get nominated for a Tony. So now that I've done all that, I don't know what I'm going to do. Maybe I should dream higher."

[on his 2003 resolution] "To be in a movie or a play which doesn't require me to take off my clothes. Unless, of course, I don't get another job... In which case I'll be half-naked and whole-heartedly depressed for the rest of my career."

"I would never 'abandon' Broadway. I do want to expand my horizons and do more film work, but I'm interested in good roles, wherever they may be. I will always come back, even if I went to LA for a job. I refuse to acknowledge the gap between theater and film. I want to do both. On both coasts. So I will...unless I never get a job again, in which case I'll go back to my first career choice: chimney sweep."

[on his character Col. William Travis in The Alamo (2004)] "He's painted as this big, swashbuckling kind of hero, but Travis didn't consider himself a hero. For Travis, he always thought a leader was someone who puts on fancy clothes. He finally figures out who he is in his last days."

"The two times I performed at the White House, for the Kennedy Center Honors, I was made fun of. The first time, in 2001, I wore a nice Gucci suit and tie, which cost more than my rent. And when I met President Bush, he said, 'Thanks for dressing up.' Everybody else was in a traditional tux. It was really funny. I totally got mocked by the President. Then the next year, I had on a black suit with a tuxedo shirt and a great light-blue straight tie. It was just a little different. But Colin Powell said, 'Hey, next time wear a bow tie.'"

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