Tony and Emmy award winning Patrick WIlson is an American stage actor who has done a few films, but appears happiest singing. He is perhaps best known for playing a Mormon, sexually confused lawyer Mormon called Joe Pitt for all six episodes of the acclaimed mini-series Angels in America for HBO. For this, he was nominated for both a Golden Globe and Emmy for Best Supporting Actor. He followed this by appearing in The Alamo (2004) and then The Phantom of the Opera alongside Gerard Butler as The Phantom.
Now (2009), of course you can catch Patrick in the cinema in a film adaption of the graphic novel Watchment alonside a very nude Billy Crudup. I don't want you all to forget Jeffrey Dean Morgan in that film, because hs is oh so cute and often confused for Javier Bardem.
Did you know Wilson sang "The Street Where You Live" from My Fair Lady for Julie Andrews' awards ceremony when she received the Kennedy Center Honors? He has dated Jennifer Love Hewitt, Scarlett Johansson and is, I think, with Dagmara Dominczyk - quite a mouthful.
"The two times I performed at the White House, for the Kennedy Center Honors, I was made fun of. The first time, in 2001, I wore a nice Gucci suit and tie, which cost more than my rent. And when I met President Bush, he said, `Thanks for dressing up.` Everybody else was in a traditional tux. It was really funny. I totally got mocked by the President. Then the next year, I had on a black suit with a tuxedo shirt and a great light-blue straight tie. It was just a little different. But Colin Powell said, `Hey, next time wear a bow tie."
"My wife was actually the one who, ultimately, told me to do it, 'cause it was just a different type of movie and a different type of character. Even though she's an actress (Dagmara Dominczyk) and she knows what was happening and what was going on, I think it's painful to watch anybody that you know, and even love, go through that sort of pain on film." (About his wife's thoughts on the movie Hard Candy, from IGN interview
"Filming The Phantom of the Opera was a lot of fun,” Wilson tells me. “Everyone involved with the production were all great people. It was certainly the most physically exhausting role I’d ever done, though. It was harder than what I expected The Phantom of the Opera to be." (The Trades interview)