Patrick Wilson may be best known as a horror icon thanks to his roles in both The Conjuring and Insidious franchises, but it’s hardly the only thing he should be known for.
Wilson was once a Broadway star thanks to his roles in Oklahoma and The Full Monty and received an Emmy nomination for reprising his stage character from Angels in America in director Mike Nichols’ limited series adaptation of the same name.
In the years that followed his screen debut, he’s been a superhero in Zack Snyder’s Watchmen, an action star in the botched reboot of The A-Team, a real-life outlaw in the western The Alamo, and an astronaut that prevents the moon from falling in (you guessed it) Moonfall.
However, the 2006 film Little Children showed that Wilson could capture a level of realistic intimacy on screen that few male actors of his generation would be comfortable with.
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