Luke Wilson

Wilson's entry point into film is worth knowing: he didn't stumble into a studio audition — he got his start through Wes Anderson's short *Bottle Rocket* in 1994, which Anderson then expanded into a feature film in 1996. That relationship with Anderson continued into *The Royal Tenenbaums* (2001), one of the more beloved ensemble films of that decade, where Wilson played Richie Tenenbaum. A quiet, wounded performance. Not flashy. That's kind of his signature. The early 2000s were his busiest stretch commercially. *Legally Blonde* (2001) put him opposite Reese Witherspoon in a film that connected with a massive audience; *Charlie's Angels* (2000) gave him a different kind of visibility; and *Old School* (2003) leaned hard into his gift for playing guys who are earnest to the point of being a little oblivious. He also showed up in *Blue Streak*, *My Dog Skip*, and *Alex & Emma* during this period — a run that established him as reliable, bankable, and, depending on who you ask, slightly underused. Hard to say if the industry ever fully figured out what his ceiling was. Television filled in the gaps and then some. His role as Casey Kelso on *That '70s Show* ran from roughly 2002 to 2005, and HBO's *Enlightened* (2011–2013) — where he played Levi Callow opposite Laura Dern — is probably his most critically respected TV work. *DC's Stargirl* (2020–2022) kept him on screens through the early 2020s, and he's also hosted the reality docuseries *Emergency Call* (TMDB). Later film credits include *The Skeleton Twins* (2014), *The Goldfinch* (2019), *All the Bright Places* (2020), and *Fingernails* (2023) — a spread that shows he's not done experimenting.