Patrick Wilson
Wilson in November 2010
Born	Patrick Joseph Wilson (1973-07-03) July 3, 1973 (age 38) Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, singer
Years active	1996–present
Spouse	Dagmara Dominczyk (2005–present); 2 children

Patrick Joseph Wilson (born July 3, 1973) is an American actor and singer. Wilson has spent years singing lead roles in major Broadway musicals, beginning in 1996. In 2003, he appeared in the HBO mini-series Angels in America. Wilson has appeared in more than 18 feature films, including The Alamo, The Phantom of the Opera with Emmy Rossum and Gerard Butler, 2006's Little Children (opposite Kate Winslet), the 2009 film Watchmen, the 2010 film The A-Team, the 2011 film The Ledge, and Insidious among others. He has been nominated for several acting awards.

He starred in the CBS drama A Gifted Man, which began in fall 2011. In May 2012, the show was cancelled.

Personal life[link]

Wilson was born in Norfolk, Virginia to Mary K. Wilson, a voice teacher and professional singer, and John Wilson, who works as news anchor for Fox affiliate WTVT in Tampa, Florida. John Wilson was news anchor at WAVY TV in Portsmouth, Virginia when Patrick was born. Patrick's brother, Mark, works at WTVT in Tampa, as a news anchor and reporter.^[1][2]

On June 18, 2005, Wilson married Polish-American actress Dagmara Dominczyk, also a Carnegie Mellon graduate (he graduated in 1995 with a drama degree; she graduated in 1998).^[3] On June 23, 2006, Dominczyk gave birth to their son, Kalin Patrick Wilson. On August 9, 2009, they welcomed their second son, Kassian McCarrell Wilson. The family currently lives in Montclair, NJ.

Career[link]

Circa 2000, Wilson completed work on the film My Sister's Wedding, unreleased as of at least 2004.^[4]

Wilson won critical acclaim for his performance in Mike Nichols' 2003 drama HBO mini-series Angels in America. He received both a Golden Globe nomination and an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He played the sexually confused Joe Pitt, a Mormon Republican.

He then made his first film appearance in The Alamo in 2004. In the same year, Wilson appeared in the film musical The Phantom of the Opera.^[5] He starred as "Raoul" (Christine's childhood friend and love interest), singing alongside Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum. In 2006, he had his first star-billing film role when he was cast as Brad Adamson in Todd Field's Little Children opposite Kate Winslet. The same year, he appeared in the Golden Globe-nominated Running With Scissors as Michael Shephard.^[6]

In 2008, he starred in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace, as Chris Mattson, opposite Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington and Jay Hernandez.

Wilson played Nite Owl II/Dan Dreiberg in Zack Snyder's 2009 film adaptation of the graphic novel Watchmen. For this role he had to gain 25 pounds^[7] after filming flashback scenes as the slimmer Nite Owl II. This film reunited Wilson with his Little Children co-star, Jackie Earle Haley.

He played the primary antagonist Lynch in 2010's The A-Team and co-stars with Rose Byrne in James Wan's horror film Insidious.^[8]

In May 2012, Wilson gave the Keynote address for his Alma Mater, Carnegie Mellon University, in which he spoke of his memories from childhood and through his career.

May 26, 2012, Wilson and his brothers (Mark & Paul Wilson) performed a benefit concert for the "Paw For Patriots" in St. Pete, Fl. This benefit was to raise money for this organization. They raised over 25K. This allows 5 soldiers to be able to get a companion.

Theatre credits[link]

• Miss Saigon (Chris understudy)
• Carousel 1996 (National Tour – Billy Bigelow)
• Bright Lights, Big City 1999 (Off-Broadway – Jamie) (Drama League Award)
• Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm 1999 (Broadway – Ensemble) (Drama League Award)
• Tenderloin 2000 (Broadway Encores! Concert Cast)
• The Full Monty 2001 (Broadway – Jerry Lukowski) (Tony Award Nomination, Drama League Award)
• Oklahoma! (revival) 2002 (Broadway – Curly) (Tony Award nomination)
• Barefoot in the Park (revival) 2006 (Broadway – Paul Bratter)
• All My Sons (revival) 2008 (Broadway – Chris Keller; limited run 10/16/08-1/11/09)

Filmography[link]

Commercials and television work[link]

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He sang "On the Street Where You Live" from My Fair Lady for Julie Andrews' awards ceremony when she received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001.

In 2004 he was a hockey player in Miracle

In 2006, Wilson narrated a PBS documentary Tampa Bay: Living Legacy, a one-hour film about Florida's largest open-water estuary. It aired in November 2006 in the Florida area.

In March 2007, Wilson appeared with his Evening costar Claire Danes in a television commercial for Gap in which the pair dances to the song "Anything You Can Do" from the musical Annie Get Your Gun.

In August 2007, Wilson appeared in an advertising campaign for "Broadway Across America", the theatrical brand of LiveNation, that was returning to St. Petersburg, Florida, following a decade-long absence. The campaign included a television commercial and associated billboards.

On October 19, 2010, in Yankee Stadium, he sang "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch of Game 4 of the American League Championship Series between the Texas Rangers and the New York Yankees.

On November 20, 2010, in Yankee Stadium, he sang the United States National Anthem before the first football game in the new stadium, played between Army and Notre Dame.

Audiowork/CDs[link]

Cast Recordings

• Allegro (2009) (Studio Cast Recording)
• Bright Lights, Big City (2005) (Studio Cast Recording)
• The Full Monty (2001) (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
• Dreamgirls In Concert (as "Film Executive") (2001 concert cast recording)
• Tenderloin (2000) (Encores Concert cast recording)
• Lucky in the Rain (2000) (Studio cast recording)
• Terrence Mann's "Romeo & Juliet - The Musical from William Shakespeare" (1999)

Soundtracks

• The Phantom of the Opera, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical

Audio Books

• Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway (2006); audio book (Simon & Schuster)
• The Ruins by Scott Smith (2006); audio book (Simon & Schuster)

Miscellaneous

• Every Day is a Holiday (2009 Christmas album) by Mary McBride
• Lucky (2004 CD) by Gary Kline
• Broadway Cares: Home for the Holidays (2001 CD)
• The Dreams in You (2001 CD)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Patrick Wilson at the Internet Movie Database
• Patrick Wilson at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

Patrick Wilson may refer to:

• Patrick Wilson (actor) (born 1973), U.S. stage, musical theatre, film and television actor
• Patrick Wilson (boxer), Saint Lucian boxer
• Patrick Wilson (composer), British musician/composer
• Patrick Wilson (librarian) (1927–2003), librarian, information scientist and philosopher
• Patrick Wilson (musician) (born 1969), drummer for the band Weezer
• Patrick Wilson (New Zealand actor), New Zealand actor
• Pat Wilson (born 1948), Australian singer
• Paddy Wilson (1933–1973), Northern Irish politician

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James Wan
James Wan attending Comic Con, 2007.
Born	(1977-02-27) 27 February 1977 (age 35) Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Occupation	Film director, producer, screenwriter
Years active	1999 – present

James Wan (born 27 February 1977) is a Malaysian-born Australian producer, screenwriter, and film director of Chinese heritage. He is widely known for directing the horror film Saw and creating Billy the puppet. He also directed Dead Silence, Death Sentence and Insidious.

Life and career[link]

Wan was born in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia of Chinese ethnicity. He was raised in Perth, Western Australia from a young age. It was his dream to make films from the age of 11. He went on to study at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, completing his Bachelor of Arts degree.^[1]

Before becoming popular in the film industry, he made his first feature film Stygian with Shannon Young, which won 'Best Guerrilla Film' at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in 2000.^[2]

He met future business partner Leigh Whannell while studying at RMIT. He would later go on to co-create and direct the 2004 horror film (and franchise),^[3] Saw with the help of Whannell, who wrote the script. Wan and Whannell made a short version of the film to showcase the script. Whannell played the role of David in the short film, and the leading role of Adam in the feature film. The three producers who saw the short film and read Whannell's screenplay agreed to produce the film before Wan and Whannell even landed in Los Angeles. Wan and Whannell decided to forgo upfront salary in return for gross profits. Shot for a low US$1.2 million budget, the producers had a straight-to-DVD release in mind. However, Saw was to become a surprise record breaking theatrical horror franchise, earning Wan and Whannell much more than they had originally predicted.^{[citation needed]}

Since creating the franchise, Wan and Whannell have served as executive producers to the sequels Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV,^[4] Saw V, Saw VI and Saw 3D. He has been busy creating other works with his film school partner Leigh Whannell. In 2007, he went on to broaden his filmography with another horror movie, Dead Silence, and the action drama Death Sentence.^[5] Having worked on his last three films back to back, Wan told CraveOnline that he is ready for "a bit of time off just to chill... but at the same time I'm using this opportunity to write again."^[6] Wan also directed a trailer for the survival horror video game Dead Space.

It has been announced that James' next film will be an adaptation of the graphic novel Fall Night, about a criminal sent to a Texas prison run by vampires.^[7] According to IMDB the film is titled 'Nightfall' instead of 'Fall Night', it is unclear which is the official title. As well as this, Leigh Whannell has stated that he and Wan are writing another project together called X Ray and described it as a film noir horror film. It has been reported that James Wan's next project will be Spectre a supernatural thriller and will star Nicole Kidman.

Wan's current film, Insidious, premiered at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival and began its theatrical release in April 2011.

The horror film news website BloodyDisgusting has confirmed that Wan's next film will be titled The Warren Files and will centre on the real life exploits of Ed and Lorraine Warren, a married couple that investigated paranormal events. The film will reportedly focus on the couple's most famous case, second to the Amityville haunting, in which they investigate a witch's curse on a Rhode Island family farm. The film was to be originally titled The Conjuring. Patrick Wilson will once again star in Wan's next film making this the second collaboration with the filmmaker, the first being Insidious. Patrick Wilson and actress Vera Farmiga will play paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren respectively. The film is scheduled for a late 2012 release.

After work on The Warren Files is complete Wan has confirmed that he will indeed be helming a sequel to his 2010 release Insidious. The film will once again be written by long time collaborator and close friend Leigh Whannell, the cast of the film is yet to be confirmed. The film is scheduled for a 2013 release.

Filmography[link]

Year	Film	Director	Producer	Writer
2003	Saw (short film)	Y	N	Y
2004	Saw	Y	N	Y
2005	Saw II	N	Y	N
2006	Saw III	N	Y	Y
2007	Dead Silence	Y	N	Y
	Death Sentence	Y	N	N
	Saw IV	N	Y	N
2008	Saw V	N	Y	N
2009	Saw VI	N	Y	N
2010	Saw 3D	N	Y	N
2011	Insidious	Y	N	N
TBA	Insidious 2	Y	N	N
ТВА	House of Horror	N	Y	N
ТВА	Spectre	N	Y	N
TBA	The Warren Files	Y	N	N

References[link]

External links[link]

• James Wan at the Internet Movie Database

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Ed and Lorraine Warren are American paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of hauntings.

Background[link]

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Edward Warren Miney (September 7, 1926 – August 23, 2006) was a noted demonologist, author, lecturer, World War II US Navy veteran, and former police officer. Lorraine Warren, née Lorraine Rita Moran (January 31, 1927 – ), his wife, is a professed clairvoyant and a light trance medium who worked closely with her husband.

The Warrens founded the New England Society for Psychic Research in 1952 and later opened the Occult Museum. They are the authors of numerous books about the paranormal and their own private investigations into various hauntings. They claimed to have investigated over 10,000 hauntings during their career. The Warrens were among the very first investigators in the controversial Amityville haunting.

The Warrens were responsible for training several current paranormal investigating demonologists including Dave Considine, Lou Gentile, and their nephew John Zaffis.

Notable Warren investigations[link]

Amityville[link]

The Warrens are best known for their involvement in the Amityville Horror case in which New York couple George and Kathy Lutz claimed that their house was haunted by a violent, demonic presence so intense that it eventually drove them out of their home. "The Amityville Horror Conspiracy" authors Stephen and Roxanne Kaplan characterized the case as a "hoax". ^[1] Lorraine Warren told a reporter for The Express-Times newspaper that the Amityville Horror was not a hoax. The reported haunting was the basis for the 1977 book The Amityville Horror and 1979 and 2005 movies of the same name.

Demon murder[link]

In 1981, Arne Johnson was accused of killing his landlord, Alan Bono. Ed and Lorraine Warren had been called prior to the killing to deal with the alleged demonic possession of the younger brother of Mr. Johnson's fiancee. The Warrens subsequently claimed that Mr. Johnson was also possessed. At trial, Mr. Johnson attempted to plead Not Guilty by Reason of Demonic Possession. The case was described in a book, The Devil in Connecticut by Gerald Brittle (ISBN 0-553-23714-4).

Werewolf[link]

The Warrens claim to have exorcised a "werewolf demon" in 1983. The subject of the case, Bill Ramsey, had bitten several people, believing himself to be a wolf. The events surrounding this case were later described in a 1991 book written by the Warrens: Werewolf: A True Story of Demonic Possession (ISBN 0-312-92864-5).

Smurl family[link]

Pennsylvania residents Jack and Janet Smurl reported their home was disturbed by various supernatural phenomena, including sounds, smells and apparitions. The Warrens became involved and claimed that the Smurl home was occupied by three spirits and also a demon that Jack and Janet Smurl alleged they were sexually assaulted by.

Criticisms[link]

The Warrens' most famous case, the Amityville Horror, has been refuted by eyewitnesses, investigations and forensic evidence. ^[2] Lawyer William Weber said that he, Jay Anson and the occupants invented the horror story "over many bottles of wine." ^[3]

Horror author Ray Garton who wrote an account of the alleged haunting of the Snedeker family in Southington, Connecticut later repudiated his book, saying, “The family involved, which was going through some serious problems like alcoholism and drug addiction, could not keep their story straight, and I became very frustrated; it’s hard writing a non-fiction book when all the people involved are telling you different stories”.^[4]

New England Society for Psychic Research[link]

The New England Society for Psychic Research was founded in 1952. According to the Warrens, the N.E.S.P.R. utilizes a variety of individuals, including medical doctors, researchers, police officers, nurses, college students and members of the clergy in its investigations.

Media appearances[link]

• Lorraine was featured in several episodes of the Discovery series A Haunting,^[5] in which she discusses some of the cases the pair worked on as paranormal investigators.
• She has also appeared on Paranormal State^[6] where she acted as a guest investigator.
• Both Ed and Lorraine have appeared on Scariest Places on Earth.
• Lorraine was featured on an episode of a show called MTV's Fear.

Books[link]

Ed and Lorraine Warren wrote or featured in a number of non-fiction books, including:

• The Amityville Horror, a True Story by Jay Anson (Prentice Hall, 1977)
• The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren by Gerald Brittle (Berkley Books, 1980)
• The Devil in Connecticut by Gerald Brittle (Bantam Books, 1983) ISBN 0-553-23714-4
• The Haunted: The True Story of One Family's Nightmare by Robert Curran with Jack Smurl and Janet Smurl and Ed and Lorraine Warren (St. Martin's Press, 1988) ISBN 0-312-01440-6
• Ghost Hunters: True Stories From the World's Most Famous Demonologists by Ed Warren (St. Martin's Press, 1989) ISBN 0-312-03353-2
• Satan's Harvest by Michael Lasalandra and Mark Merenda with Maurice and Nancy Theriault and Ed and Lorraine Warren (Dell, 1990) ISBN 0-440-20589-1
• Werewolf: A True Story of Demonic Possession by Ed Warren (St. Martin's Press, 1991) ISBN 0-312-06493-4
• Graveyard: True Hauntings from an Old New England Cemetery by Ed Warren (St Martins Press, 1992) ISBN 0-312-08202-9
• In A Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting by Ray Garton (Villard, 1992) ISBN 0-394-58902-5

Film[link]

A biopic directed by James Wan has been reported to be in the works, scheduled for a 2013 release, under the title The Warren Files. It is currently in production in Wilmington, NC, and it stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as Ed and Lorraine Warren.^[7]

The 2009 film The Haunting in Connecticut was loosely based on the Snedeker haunting investigated by the Warrens.^[8]

References[link]

External links[link]

• The New England Society For Psychic Research
• Article Detailing the Recent Danbury Court Case
• Hunting the Ghost Hunters: An Investigation of Ed and Lorraine Warren - Perry DeAngelis and Steven Novella
• The Demonologist Page on the Warrens - Contains brief biographical information
• Internet Movie Database - Entry for Ed Warren
• Internet Movie Database - Entry for Lorraine Warren
• JREF reprint of Ray Garton letter - Ray Garton Letter refuting the Warrens
• Ed and Lorraine Warren Website