Age, Biography, and Wiki
Noah Wyle, born on June 4, 1971, in Hollywood, California, has been active in the entertainment industry since the early 1990s. He is the son of Marjorie and Stephen Wyle, an electrical engineer and a filmmaker, respectively. Wyle's early exposure to the arts led him to develop a passion for acting. His breakthrough came with the role of Dr. John Carter in the NBC medical drama ER, which catapulted him to fame.
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| Date of Birth | 4 June 1971 |
| Age | 54 Years |
| Birth Place | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Horoscope | Gemini |
| Country | U.S |
Height, Weight & Measurements
Noah Wyle stands at approximately 6 feet 1 inch (185 cm) tall, although his exact weight is not publicly disclosed.
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Dating & Relationship Status
Noah Wyle has been married to Sara Wells since 2014. Before this, he was married to actress Tracy Warbin from 1998 to 2010. Wyle is known for keeping his personal life relatively private.
His mother, Marjorie "Marty" Speer, worked as a nurse at Hollywood's Kaiser Hospital. His father, Stephen Wyle, was an electrical engineer and entrepreneur. Wyle's paternal grandparents were prominent figures in Los Angeles; his grandfather, Frank Wyle, was a mechanical engineer who founded the aerospace company Wyle Laboratories and his grandmother, Edith R. Wyle, was a painter who established the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum. Wyle spent a lot of time as a child at his grandparents' 4,000-acre cattle ranch in North Fork, California and described his family as "half-city, half-country mice". Wyle's mother is Episcopalian and was raised in Kentucky. His father is Jewish; the Wyle surname was originally Weil and his ancestors were Russian Jews. Growing up, Wyle's family was not religious but he felt "culturally" Jewish.
Wyle's parents divorced in 1977 and both remarried. Wyle was "greatly influenced" by his stepparents; his stepmother, Deborah, is a teacher while his stepfather, James C. Katz, is a film producer and preservationist. In the 1980s, Katz worked as a senior executive at Universal Studios and a young Wyle worked in craft services on movie sets and appeared as an uncredited extra in Paul Bartel's Lust in the Dust (1985). From his parents' marriage, Wyle has an older sister, Alexandra, and a younger brother, Aaron. He has a younger half-sister, Jessica, from his father's second marriage and three step-siblings from Katz's first marriage; Tabitha, Natasha and Matthew Frost were raised between France and Los Angeles.
After graduating high school, Wyle moved into an apartment on Hollywood Boulevard, signed with an agent and began taking acting classes with Larry Moss. His parents were only willing to financially support a college education and he worked as a busboy and then waiter at the Bel Age Hotel's Diaghilev restaurant. He appeared in Los Angeles stage productions and made a one-line appearance in the NBC miniseries Blind Faith (1990). His first movie role was in the family drama Crooked Hearts (1991), with Peter Rainer of the Los Angeles Times remarking upon his "appealingly awe-struck innocence". He appeared as a Hitler Youth leader in the historical drama Swing Kids (1993), as a high school student in the coming-of-age ensemble There Goes My Baby (1994) and as Lancelot in the Lifetime movie Guinevere (1994). His most notable role in this period was as a marine in the courtroom drama A Few Good Men (1992), directed by Rob Reiner and written by Aaron Sorkin. The film was a box office success and was nominated for Best Picture at the 1993 Academy Awards.
In between seasons of ER, Wyle continued to do film work. He was offered parts in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) and Clooney's Good Night and Good Luck (2005) but was unable to do either due to ER's filming schedule. He starred in the independent family drama The Myth of Fingerprints (1997) and made a cameo in the comedy Can't Stop Dancing (1999). He portrayed Steve Jobs in the TNT television movie Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) and was later invited by Jobs to address the 1999 NY Macworld Expo audience in character. He then had a series of supporting roles; playing the President's interpreter in the televised broadcast play Fail Safe (2000), a science teacher in the thriller Donnie Darko (2001), a mob enforcer in Scenes of the Crime (2001), an unsupportive husband in White Oleander (2002) and a corrupt police officer in Enough (2002). Wyle had starring roles in the TNT adventure movie The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004) and the independent drama The Californians (2005).
In 2019, his performance as a grieving husband in the eight-part limited series The Red Line was critically acclaimed. Matt Zoller Seitz of New York Magazine praised "a career-capping performance": "It’s easy to take his brand of unfussy, direct acting for granted, but he’s so moving here — particularly in all the father-daughter scenes with Royale — that it’s impossible not to appreciate all the excellent work he’s done over the decades, and continues to do." Wyle was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award.
Wyle has been married to actress Sara Wells since 2014. They met in 2011 during a production at The Blank Theatre Company in Los Angeles. They married in June 2014 at their home in Santa Ynez in a ceremony officiated by Jan Dance, the wife of David Crosby, with whom Wyle had formed a close friendship in the late 1990s.
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| Husband | Tracy Warbin (m. 2000-2010) Sara Wells (m. 2014) |
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Net Worth and Salary
As of 2025, Noah Wyle's net worth is estimated to be around $25 million. His earnings stem primarily from his successful acting career, with notable roles in ER, Falling Skies, and The Librarian franchise. During his time on ER, Wyle was one of the highest-paid TV actors, earning approximately $400,000 per episode.
Career, Business, and Investments
Noah Wyle has had a diverse career spanning film, television, and theater. Some of his notable film roles include A Few Good Men, Donnie Darko, and W. He has also ventured into production and directing, contributing to projects like The Librarians and Leverage: Redemption. Recent projects include his role in The Pitt, a Max series released in 2025.
Wyle was educated at Gardner Street Elementary School in Hollywood and Oakwood School in North Hollywood. He then spent four years at The Thacher School, a boarding school in Ojai, California known for its horseback riding program. He felt "way in over my head" academically and was placed on academic probation in his freshman year but ultimately graduated with a "decent" GPA. Wyle had always been "enamoured" by show business growing up in Hollywood but he first acted on stage in his sophomore year at Thacher and, encouraged by the audience response, continued to act in, write and direct school plays. He attended the Cherubs Theatre Arts program at Northwestern University in the summer of his junior year and returned to high school "really focused" on becoming a professional actor. He was the first person in his family "in generations" to not attend college.
During his time on ER, Wyle remained involved with the Los Angeles-based Blank Theatre Company, where he had first worked as a teenage actor. He appeared opposite Peter Berg in the 1995 production of The 24th Day. In 1998, he became the company's artistic producer. His leadership role involved "constant fundraising" and "grant writing"; he personally donated the money for the acquisition of the 2nd Stage Theatre premises. Over the years, he acted in many playwrights' entries for the annual Young Playwrights Festival, and described the competition as one of the "most gratifying" experiences of his career. For his work as a producer of The Wild Party in 2005, he won an NAACP Theatre Award.
Wyle returned to the stage in 2006, playing Salvador Dalí in a well-reviewed production of Lobster Alice at his Blank Theatre Company's 2nd Stage Theatre in Los Angeles. Julio Martinez of Variety praised his "well-honed comic timing": "His portrayal of the larger-than-life, self-aggrandizing Dali is a delight." (Wyle would remain in his role as artistic producer of the Blank Theatre Company for over twenty years before stepping down.) In 2008, Wyle and Alan Alda starred in a production of L'Histoire du soldat at New York's 92nd Street Y. Wyle had supporting roles in three 2008 movies; he played a lawyer in the political thriller Nothing but the Truth, a journalist in the coming-of-age drama An American Affair and Donald Evans in Oliver Stone's W. (2008). His starring performance in the satirical comedy Queen of the Lot (2010) was well-reviewed.
Wyle's performance as Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch in the Max series The Pitt (2025–) led to a career resurgence. It marked a return to the medical procedural genre, with Wyle and John Wells making the character "so different by design": "I was interested in playing a guy who came from a way more blue-collar background and who hadn’t had any of those early opportunities." It marked the first time Wyle played a Jewish character and he used a family name for the character.
Social Network
Noah Wyle is not very active on social media platforms, preferring to keep his personal life private.
In 2011, six years after leaving ER, Wyle had "an itch" to return to more regular work. He starred as the lead in TNT's sci-fi series Falling Skies (2011–2015). Wyle played Tom Mason, a former history professor who becomes the second-in-command of an army regiment fighting aliens in post-apocalyptic Boston.
Education
Wyle attended the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles and later studied theater at Northwestern University. However, he did not graduate from Northwestern, instead choosing to pursue a career in acting. His early exposure to acting was through high school theater programs, where he refined his skills under the guidance of mentor Larry Moss.
At the age of 22, Wyle was focused on "movies and plays" but was encouraged by his agent to audition for the television pilot of a medical drama called ER. The character of medical student John Carter was initially conceived of as comic relief and the casting director was impressed by Wyle's facility for "physical comedy" during the audition process. Wyle himself felt a personal connection: "Right off the bat, I identified with him being born with a silver spoon in his mouth and it never quite fitting." After filming the ER pilot, Wyle auditioned for the part of Ross Geller in another new Warner Brothers show Friends; producers wanted him to film a screen test for the network but had to first wait to see whether ER would get picked up for a full season. ER tested highly with audiences, was ordered for a full season and began airing on September 19, 1994. It soon became the second most-watched show on television after Seinfeld. The main ensemble cast - Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Eriq La Salle, Sherry Stringfield and Julianna Margulies - rose to fame and Wyle, the youngest member, has credited the others as mentors.
