Wilson Cruz

Birth name:	Wilson Echevarría
Date of birth:	27 December 1973
Place of birth:	Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Awards for Trek:	Saturn Award nominee
Roles:	Actor
Character(s):	Hugh Culber; Additional characters

Wilson Cruz (born 27 December 1973; age 50) is the American actor who portrays Doctor Hugh Culber in Star Trek: Discovery. He appeared as a recurring guest star in the first season, and was promoted to regular cast member from the second season onwards.

He shared a dance with a pre-teen Mary Chieffo at a wedding, since he is a good friend of Chieffo's mother Beth. (AT: "Despite Yourself")

Cruz was the featured studio guest in the fourth episode of The Ready Room, discussing his character's resurrection from the grave in season two of the series.

Career

Born in New York City with Puerto Rican heritage, he started his acting career by starring in the TV series My So-Called Life in 1994-1995, which also featured Paul Dooley as a recurring guest star. Cruz made his film debut in Nixon (1995, with Robert Beltran, Bill Bolender, Richard Fancy, David Paymer, Annette Helde, Michelle Krusiec, Saul Rubinek, and Paul Sorvino). Cruz followed with the 1996 telefilm On Seventh Avenue, with Stephen Collins, Ronald Guttman, Josh Pais, and Anthony Zerbe. That year Cruz co-starred in Johns, with Tony Epper. In 2005, Cruz appeared in Bam Bam and Celeste with John Cho. In 2003, he starred in Party Monster with Mia Kirshner. Cruz later appeared in Coffee Date (2006, co-starring Leigh Taylor-Young). Cruz was also seen in He's Just Not That Into You (2009, with Googy Gress and Cristine Rose).

He later appeared in episodes of Shameless (2016), 13 Reasons Why, and Doubt (both 2017). That year, he also produced and appeared in a short movie called Billy's Blowjobs.

Star Trek appearances

• DIS:
  • "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry" (Season 1)
  • "Choose Your Pain"
  • "Lethe"
  • "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"
  • "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
  • "Into the Forest I Go"
  • "Despite Yourself"
  • "The Wolf Inside"
  • "Vaulting Ambition"
  • "What's Past Is Prologue" (archive footage)
  • "Brother" (Season 2)
  • "Saints of Imperfection"
  • "The Sound of Thunder"
  • "If Memory Serves"
  • "The Red Angel"
  • "Perpetual Infinity"
  • "Through the Valley of Shadows"
  • "Such Sweet Sorrow"
  • "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2"
  • "Far From Home" (Season 3)
  • "Forget Me Not"
  • "Die Trying"
  • "Scavengers"
  • "The Sanctuary"
  • "Terra Firma, Part 1"
  • "Terra Firma, Part 2"
  • "Su'Kal"
  • "That Hope Is You, Part 2"
  • "Kobayashi Maru" (Season 4)
  • "Anomaly (DIS)"
  • "Choose to Live"
  • "All Is Possible"
  • "The Examples"
  • "Stormy Weather"
  • "...But to Connect"
  • "All In"
  • "Rubicon"
  • "The Galactic Barrier"
  • "Rosetta"
  • "Species Ten-C"
  • "Coming Home"

Additional characters

Hallucination of Culber
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"

Jinaal Bix inhabiting Culber's form
DIS: "Jinaal"

Hugh Culber (mirror)
DIS: "Terra Firma, Part 1", "Terra Firma, Part 2"

Additional appearances

• AT:
  • "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"
  • "Despite Yourself"
• TRR:
  • "Saints of Imperfection"
  • "Forget Me Not"
  • "Rubicon"
  • "Jinaal"

External links

• Wilson Cruz at the Internet Movie Database
• Wilson Cruz at Wikipedia