Noah Strausser Speer Wyle (/ˈwaɪli/; born June 4, 1971) is an American film, television, and theatre actor. He is known for his roles as Dr. John Carter in ER for which he was nominated five times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and three times for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and as Tom Mason in Falling Skies. In his film work is he best known for playing Corporal Jeffrey Barnes in A Few Good Men, Steve Jobs in the docudrama Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999), Dr. Kenneth Monnitoff in Donnie Darko (2001), and Flynn Carsen in The Librarian franchise.
Wyle was recently nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television for The Red Line.
Wyle, the middle of three children, was born in Hollywood, California, the son of Marjorie (née Speer), a registered orthopedic head nurse, and Stephen Wyle, an electrical engineer and entrepreneur. His father was Jewish (of Russian-Jewish descent), whereas his mother was Episcopalian, and he was raised "fairly nondenominationally", around both faiths. Wyle's parents divorced in the late 1970s, and his mother later married James C. Katz, a film restorationist with three children of his own from a previous marriage. Wyle's paternal grandparents, Edith and Frank Wyle, founded the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, and his grandfather also founded Wyle Laboratories. Edith R. Wyle was an expressionist painter who also created The Egg and The Eye, a café and shop in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles.