Patrick Wilson Biography
Patrick Wilson is an American Award-winning actor best known for starring in The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Hard Candy (2005), Little Children (2006), Watchmen (2009), and The A-Team (2010). He rose to fame after starring in the movie Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023).
Patrick Wilson Career
Wilson’s playing career began in 1995 when he was an understudy for Chris Scott in a national tour of Miss Saigon. He played Billy Bigelow in the national tour of Carousel the next year. Wilson first appeared on Broadway in The Full Monty (2000) as Jerry Lukowski. In 1999, he played Jamie Conway in the off-Broadway production of Bright Lights, Big City. He was up for both the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical for his work in the part.
Wilson finished working on the movie My Sister’s Wedding around the year 2000, but it has never been shown. When Julie Andrews got the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, he sang “On the Street Where You Live” from My Fair Lady at her event. Critics praised Wilson’s performance as Curly McLain in Oklahoma! on Broadway in 2002.
Wilson’s first movie role was as William B. Travis in The Alamo, which came out in 2004. In the same year, he played Viscount Raoul de Chagny in the musical movie The Phantom of the Opera. The next year, he played a child molester named Jeff Kohlver in the psychological thriller Hard Candy, which stars Elliot Page.
Bradley Adamson was Wilson’s role in Todd Field’s Little Children in 2006. Running with Scissors, which he was in and for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 2006, was directed by Ryan Murphy and produced by Brad Pitt. He played Brian Callahan in the independent movie Purple Violets, which came out in 2007. The movie was written and directed by Edward Burns. In 2008, he played the lead role in Neil LaBute’s play Oakview Terrace.
Wilson gained 25 pounds for the part of Dan Dreiberg/Nite Owl II in Zack Snyder’s 2009 movie adaptation of the graphic novel Watchmen. He did this by filming flashback scenes as a slimmer Nite Owl II. Wilson reconnected with Jackie Earle Haley, who he worked with in Little Children, for this movie. During the seventh inning stretch of Game 4 of the American League Championship Series between the Texas Rangers and the New York Yankees on October 19, 2010, he sang “God Bless America” at Yankee Stadium. Before Army and Notre Dame’s first football game in Yankee Stadium on November 20, 2010, he sang the National Anthem.
Wilson co-starred with Rose Byrne in James Wan’s horror movie Insidious and played the main bad guy Lynch in 2010’s The A-Team. His comeback was seen in the 2013 follow-up to the first movie, Insidious: Chapter 2. Wilson played the famous ghost hunter Ed Warren in the 2013 horror movie The Conjuring. Additionally, it also starred Vera Farmiga as his wife Lorraine. The movie got great reviews and went on to become one of the most successful horror movies of all time. Wilson played the part again in The Conjuring 2, which came out on June 10, 2016.
Wilson was cast as the lead character, Lou Solverson, in the second season of FX’s mystery show Fargo in January 2014. For his role, he was up for the 2015 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries. In March 2014, Wilson was cast in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie Ant-Man in an unspecified part. However, he later quit the movie because of scheduling problems caused by multiple delays in production. He was cast as Arthur O’Dwyer in the Western movie Bone Tomahawk that same year, along with Kurt Russell and Matthew Fox.
In 2016, he played Rollie Smith in John Lee Hancock’s film The Founder, which was based on the life of Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald’s. In August 2016, Barbra Streisand released the record Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway. On it, she and Wilson sing together the song “Loving You” from the Passion musical by Stephen Sondheim.
Wilson co-starred in Jaume Collet-Serra’s action thriller The Commuter in 2018. He played a close friend of Liam Neeson’s character and reunited with The Conjuring co-star Vera Farmiga. However, in the same year, he played Orm Marius / Ocean Master in the DC Extended Universe movie Aquaman, which was directed by his longtime friend and coworker James Wan. He will play the same character again in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.
The hit movie Midway by Roland Emmerich came out on November 8, 2019, featuring Wilson, Ed Skrein, Mandy Moore, Luke Evans, Aaron Eckhart, Nick Jonas, Dennis Quaid, and Woody Harrelson. However, Wilson went on to work on Emmerich’s Moonfall in June 2020. The movie is set to come out in 2022, after production began in October 2020.
Wilson’s first movie as a director was Insidious: The Red Door, which came out in the US on July 7, 2023. It was a direct follow-up to Insidious: Chapter 2, and both Wilson and Ty Simpkins played the same parts. The script was written by Scott Teems from a story by Leigh Whannell. The movie will be made by Whannell, James Wan, Jason Blum, and Oren Peli. He also sang in the movie’s music, working with the Swedish metal band Ghost on the song “Stay” at the end of the credits.
Patrick Wilson Age
Wilson was born on July 3, 1973, in Norfolk, Virginia. He is 51 years old as of 2024, and he celebrates his birthday on the 3rd of July every year.
Patrick Wilson Height and Weight
Wilson stands at a height of 6 feet 0 inches tall (1.83m) and weighs 85 kg (187 lbs).
Patrick Wilson Family
Wilson was born in Norfolk, Virginia to Mary Kay Wilson (mother), a voice teacher and singer, and John Franklin Wilson (father) a WTVT news anchor. He has two older brothers named Paul who is an advertising executive and Mark who who succeeded their father as a news anchor for WTVT.
Patrick Wilson Wife
Wilson has been married to Dagmara Dominczyk, a Polish-American actress and fellow Carnegie Mellon alumnus since 2005. The couple met at Carnegie Mellon University in 1990 while studying there. They are blessed with two sons; Kalin Patrick Wilson (2006), and Kassian McCarrell Wilson (2009). The family lives in Montclair, New Jersey.
Patrick Wilson Net Worth
Wilson has an estimated net worth of about $5 Million – $10 Million which he has earned through his career as an actor.
Patrick Wilson Salary
Wilson earns a salary of about $500,000-$1 Million per movie.
Patrick Wilson Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Wilson plays the role of Orm in the movie Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Arthur has a half-brother named Orm. He was so angry that he thought he was the true heir to the throne of Atlantis that Arthur had to fight him in the first movie. But Arthur was able to beat and jail Orm after a great fight with his relative and the army that followed him. It was because Wilson’s character thought Arthur killed their mother that he hated him. However, when Orm found out that Atlanna was alive and that Arthur had brought her home, he understood that he could help his half-brother when he needed to.
Patrick Wilson Conjuring
Wilson plays the role of Ed Warren in the horror movie Conjuring. He is an author and paranormal detective who has worked on well-known cases of supposedly haunted places. Moreover, as an author, speaker, and self-proclaimed demonologist, Edward has taught himself everything he knows. Lorraine, his wife, said she could see ghosts and was a light trance medium who worked closely with him.
Patrick Wilson The Phantom of the Opera
Wilson plays the role of Raoul de Chagny in the musical romantic drama film The Phantom of the Opera. Raoul is a viscount and has known Christine Daaé since they were kids. Back when he was a little kid, they met on vacation in Northern France. He sees her again after seeing her perform at the Palais Garnier for the retirement ceremony of the old managers.
She laughs when he tells her that he is “the little boy who went into the sea to rescue your scarf.” Christine doesn’t want to recognize Raoul at first because she’s afraid the “Angel of Music” will go back to heaven. They do, however, get engaged later. They had no idea that Erik, the “Angel of Music” Christine talks about (he’s a musical genius who lives below the Opera), had been watching them. Erik kidnaps her at the opera house while Faust is being performed on the day they were planning to run away together.
To save Christine, Raoul and the mystery man only known as “The Persian” go down into the Opera’s cellars. They are tortured and almost drowned in a room with mirrors and a lot of heat before Erik gives up because Christine is ready to give up her happiness for Raoul’s life. Raoul almost kills himself while being tortured, and when Christine’s promise to marry Erik saves the day, Erik has to put him to bed because the poison has made him “limp as a rag.”
Patrick Wilson Insidious: The Red Door
Wilson plays the role of Josh Lambert in the American horror film Insidious: The Red Door. Josh Lambert hasn’t thought about what happened in The Further in 2019, nine years after he was possessed. His mother Lorraine died not long ago, and he is no longer married to Renai. His bond with his son Dalton has become tense. When he drops Dalton off at college, he tries to make things better, but they get into a fight.
Dalton draws a picture of the red door that leads into The Further in his first art class. At the same time, Josh starts to be bothered by the ghost of a man. He finally figures out that the man is his father Ben Burton, whom he thought had left his family when he was young. Dalton and his friend Chris go to a frat party, where Dalton sees the ghost of a student who is always throwing up. When Chris accidentally goes back into The Further, he shows Dalton a YouTube video by Specs and Tucker that explains how astral projection works. This video leads to a clip of Elise Rainier talking about The Further.
Chris is watching over Dalton’s body as he tries to astral project again. Chris is attacked by something invisible, and her screams wake Dalton up. He rushes back to his body and sees that it is the red-faced demon that tormented him as a child. Chris told Dalton to stop using his powers, and then his brother Foster called to tell him about a dream he used to have where Josh was trying to kill them. This makes Dalton remember. Nevertheless, he finishes his picture of Josh who is cursed standing in front of the red door. Dalton is upset when he is pulled into The Further to the time when Josh attacked them in the basement while possessed. When Josh tries to kill the younger Dalton, he gets tackled and is sent back to the red-faced demon’s home.
Josh starts to look into his father’s death and learns that he killed himself while being locked up in a mental hospital. Renai tells him the truth about what happened to their family ten years ago. Additionally, he tells him how his father could also astral project but thought the things he saw were caused by his mental illness. When Foster texts them a picture of Dalton’s painting, they know that Dalton is in trouble. Renai gives Josh the strength to go back into The Further and save their son.
The devil takes over Dalton’s body while he is locked up in his lair and tries to kill Chris. Josh finds Dalton and frees him, stopping the attack. The demon follows them to the red door, but Josh stays behind to keep it shut to keep Dalton safe. Dalton then goes back to his body and paints over his red door picture with black paint, which closes the real door and The Further.
Josh meets the ghost of his father and is led back to the real world by him. When Josh gets back, he agrees to have dinner with Renai and the kids. This makes it seem like they might get back together. Elise’s spirit meets him as he’s leaving and tells him that he has a great future ahead of him. Josh then drives to Dalton’s college, where he gives a painting of himself carrying Dalton out of The Further when he was young. This makes father and son get along again.
Patrick Wilson Movies and TV Shows
- The Nun II
- Insidious: The Red Door
- Moonfall
- The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
- Midway
- In the Tall Grass
- The Assistant
- Little Demon
- Teen Titans Go!
- The Other Two
- Fargo
- Girls
- A Gifted Man
- American Dad!
Patrick Wilson Social Media Platforms
Wilson is very active on his Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages and he has 166.7k followers on Twitter 539k followers on Instagram, and 82k followers on Facebook.