Wilson Cruz

Real World article
(written from a Production point of view)

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 nomination
Roles:	Guest Actor; Series Regular
Character(s):	Doctor Hugh Culber

Wilson Cruz (born 27 December 1973; age 47) is the American actor who portrays Doctor Hugh Culber in Star Trek: Discovery. [1] He appeared as a recurring guest star in the first season, and was promoted to regular cast member for the second and third season.

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 the 1995 biopic Nixon, surrounded by fellow alumni Robert Beltran, Bill Bolender, Richard Fancy, 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 costarred in the sex comedy Johns, with Tony Epper. In 2005, Cruz appeared in Bam Bam & Celeste with John Cho. 2006 had Cruz in the comedy Coffee Date, costarring Leigh Taylor-Young. None of Cruz's later films made as much of a dent in the box office like his debut, but then Cruz was cast in the hit 2009 film He's Just Not That Into You, joined by Googy Gress and Cristine Rose.

More recently, he 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

Cruz appeared as Culber in

• DIS:
  • "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry" (First appearance)
  • "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"
  • "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"
  • "Forget Me Not"
  • "Die Trying"
  • "Scavengers"
  • "The Sanctuary"
  • "Terra Firma, Part 1"
  • "Terra Firma, Part 2"
  • "Su'Kal"
  • "That Hope Is You, Part 2"

As Hugh Culber (mirror)

• DIS:
  • "Terra Firma, Part 1"
  • "Terra Firma, Part 2"

Hugh Culber

Hallucination of Culber
"Vaulting Ambition"

Holographic recording of Culber
"Brother"

Hugh Culber (mirror)
"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"

External links

• Wilson Cruz at Wikipedia
• Wilson Cruz at the Internet Movie Database
• Wilson Cruz at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website