For his role as Dr. John Carter on ?ER,? Noah Wyle has received five Emmy Award nominations, as well as three Golden Globe nominations as Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television. He also won the 2001 TV Guide Award for Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

One of six brothers and sisters, Wyle was born and raised in Hollywood, California. He developed an interest in acting when he participated in a theater arts program at Northwestern University after his junior year of high school. After graduation, he found an apartment on Hollywood Boulevard and began studying with acting teacher Larry Moss.

Wyle scored his first professional role in the miniseries ?Blind Faith? and followed with his first feature film, ?Crooked Hearts.? A role in ?A Few Good Men? followed. Wyle?s big break came when he was given the pilot script for ?ER.?

His other credits include ?Enough,? opposite Jennifer Lopez, and an appearance opposite Renee Zellweger in ?White Oleander.? Wyle also starred as Steve Jobs in the cable movie ?The Pirates of Silicon Valley,? in the independent film ?The Myth of Fingerprints? with Roy Scheider and Blythe Danner, and as the President's interpreter in the 2000 live-television production of ?Fail Safe.? Wyle recently completed production on the independent film, ?The Californians.?

In addition, Wyle is the creative producer of his own Los Angeles theater company, the Blank Theater Company, which stages annual young playwrights festival. He also recently acquired Second Stage Theater in Hollywood, where the company has mounted numerous successful productions.

Wyle devotes much of his free time to the international non-profit organization Doctors of the World and to his work as a member of the Human Rights Watch Council. He enjoys basketball, traveling, photography and going to the movies.