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Noah Wyle (Dr John Carter)
For his role as Dr. John Carter on ER, Noah Wyle (pronounced "why-lee") has received many award nominations. Though the Dr. Carter viewers first met, was inexperienced and often overwhelmed by the furious pace in the ER, Noah reflects that the character's development mirrors his own acting career. "When the series first started, I was extremely nervous and bumbling and I was playing a character who was nervous and bumbling," he explains. 'The second and third years, I got far more comfortable on the set. Now the character has matured and caught up to me and we're sort of going through the same life issues. I would be his patient today." Born in Hollywood, California, Noah was raised there along with his six brothers and sisters. He developed a genuine interest in acting after his junior year in high school, when he participated in a theater-arts program at Northwestern University. After graduation from high school, he found a seedy apartment on Hollywood Boulevard and began studying with acting teacher Larry Moss. Noah scored his first professional role in the US series Blind Faith and followed that with his first feature film, Crooked Hearts, in which he played a son in a dysfunctional family. 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 a leader in the Hitler Youth, and in The Myth of Fingerprints. Additionally, he starred as Lancelot opposite Sheryl Lee in the US TV movie Guinevere of Camelot and he guest-starred as a doctor on Friends. Noah is the artistic producer of his own Los Angeles theater company, the Blank Theater Company, which stages an annual young playwrights festival and recently acquired Second Stage Theater in Hollywood, where the company's latest production, Hello, Again, received rave reviews. In his leisure time, Noah enjoys basketball, traveling, photography and going to the movies. He lives in Los Angeles, and his birthday is June 4th.