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Luke Cunningham Wilson (born September 21, 1971) is an American actor. Wilson's prominent film roles have included Bottle Rocket (1996), Blue Streak (1999), My Dog Skip (2000), Legally Blonde (2001), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Old School (2003), My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), Idiocracy (2006), You Kill Me (2007), The Skeleton Twins (2014), Meadowland (2015) and Brad's Status (2017).
On television, he played Casey Kelso on That '70s Show (2002–2005), Levi Callow on Enlightened (2011–2013) and Pat Dugan on Stargirl (2020–2022). Wilson is the younger brother of actors Andrew Wilson and Owen Wilson.
All three Wilson boys attended St. Mark's School of Texas. According to Owen Wilson, Luke was voted class president the first year he attended St. Mark's.audio commentary on Criterion Collection's Bottle Rocket DVD He became interested in acting while attending Occidental College in Los Angeles.
In 1999, he portrayed Detective Carlson in Blue Streak. He later appeared opposite Frankie Muniz in the 2000 comedy-drama My Dog Skip, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu in the 2000 action comedy Charlie's Angels, and Reese Witherspoon in the 2001 comedy Legally Blonde. It was followed by The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Old School (2003), (2003), (2003), and (2004). Wilson also had a role on That '70s Show, as Michael Kelso's older brother Casey Kelso appearing sporadically from 2002 through 2005.
In 2006, Wilson starred in My Super Ex-Girlfriend, opposite Uma Thurman, and Idiocracy, a dystopian comedy directed by Mike Judge. Wilson portrayed an ordinary serviceman frozen in a cryogenics project. He awakens after hundreds of years in an America which is significantly less intelligent.
In 2007, Wilson starred in the thriller Vacancy, opposite Kate Beckinsale, and Blonde Ambition. In the same year, he appeared in You Kill Me, , Blades of Glory, and worked on Henry Poole is Here in La Mirada, California which was released in 2008. In 2009, he starred in Tenure. In 2010, he appeared in films Death at a Funeral and Middle Men. From 2011 to 2013 he starred in the HBO TV series Enlightened. He followed this up with roles in The Skeleton Twins (2014), Meadowland (2015), Brad's Status (2017), and (2019).
Since 2020, Wilson stars in the DC Universe/The CW series Stargirl as sidekick-turned-mechanic-turned superhero Pat Dugan
In 2023, he starred in the HBO Max animated series Fired on Mars as Jeffrey Cooper, a graphic designer for a business on Mars whose life is changed upon his termination.
Wilson has written a Wright brothers biopic with his brother Owen, in which they also plan to star.
In a 2019 interview, he commented on the fact that he has publicly expressed interest in starting a family since 1996, saying, "I'm 47, I'm ready for that. I need to get to work."
| 1994 | Bottle Rocket | Anthony Adams | Short |
| 1996 | Bottle Rocket | ||
| 1997 | Bongwater | David | |
| Telling Lies in America | Henry | ||
| Best Men | Jesse Reilly | ||
| Scream 2 | Billy Loomis | Plays a character in the film-within-a-film Stab. | |
| 1998 | Dog Park | Andy | |
| Home Fries | Dorian Montier | ||
| Rushmore | Dr. Peter Flynn | ||
| 1999 | Kill the Man | Stanley Simon | |
| Blue Streak | Detective Carlson | ||
| 2000 | My Dog Skip | Dink Jenkins | |
| Committed | Carl | ||
| Preston Tylk | Preston Tylk | ||
| Charlie's Angels | Peter Kominsky | ||
| 2001 | Legally Blonde | Emmett Richmond | |
| Soul Survivors | Jude | ||
| Richard "Richie" Tenenbaum | |||
| 2002 | Stanley | ||
| 2003 | Masked and Anonymous | Bobby Cupid | |
| Old School | Mitch Martin | ||
| Stuck on You | Himself | ||
| Alex and Emma | Alex Sheldon / Adam Shipley | ||
| Peter Kominsky | |||
| Emmett Richmond | |||
| 2004 | Around the World in 80 Days | Orville Wright | |
| Frank Vitchard | |||
| Direct-to-video | |||
| 2005 | Wendell Baker | Also director, writer and producer | |
| Ben Stone | |||
| 2006 | Hoot | Officer David Delinko | |
| Mini's First Time | John Garson | ||
| My Super Ex-Girlfriend | Matt Saunders | ||
| Idiocracy | Corporal Joe Bauers | ||
| Jackass Number Two | Himself | ||
| 2007 | You Kill Me | Tom | |
| Vacancy | David Fox | ||
| Zeke | |||
| Blades of Glory | Sex Class Instructor | ||
| Battle for Terra | Lt. James "Jim" Stanton | Voice | |
| Blonde Ambition | Ben | ||
| 2008 | Henry Poole Is Here | Henry Poole | |
| David Fox | Archive footage | ||
| 2009 | Tenure | Charlie Thurber | |
| 2010 | Death at a Funeral | Derek | |
| Middle Men | Jack Harris | ||
| 2012 | Meeting Evil | John | |
| Straight A's | William | ||
| 2013 | Move Me Brightly | The Interviewer | Documentary |
| 2014 | The Skeleton Twins | Lance | |
| Satellite Beach | Warren Flowers | Also Director and screenwriter | |
| Ride | Ian | ||
| 2015 | Playing It Cool | Samson | |
| Meadowland | Phil | ||
| The Ridiculous 6 | Danny | ||
| Concussion | Roger Goodell | ||
| 2016 | Outlaws and Angels | Josiah | |
| Dear Eleanor | Bob Potter | ||
| All We Had | Lee | ||
| Rock Dog | Bodi | Voice | |
| Approaching the Unknown | Louis Skinner | ||
| 2017 | Brad's Status | Jason Hatfield | |
| The Girl Who Invented Kissing | Leo | ||
| 2018 | Arizona | Scott | |
| Measure of a Man | Marty Marks | ||
| High Voltage | Rick | ||
| 2019 | Berlin, I Love You | Burke Linz | |
| Phil | Detective Welling | ||
| Guest of Honour | Father Greg | ||
| The Goldfinch | Larry Decker | ||
| Albuquerque | |||
| 2020 | All the Bright Places | James | |
| Earl | Voice; Direct-to-video | ||
| 2021 | 12 Mighty Orphans | Rusty Russell | |
| The Cleaner | Jim Russell | ||
| 2022 | Gasoline Alley | Vargas | |
| Look Both Ways | Rick | ||
| 2023 | Miranda's Victim | Lawrence Turoff | |
| The Best Man | Cal | ||
| Fingernails | Duncan | ||
| Merry Little Batman | Batman | Voice | |
| 2024 | You Gotta Believe | Bobby Ratliff | |
| Matthew Van Weyden | |||
| Filming | |||
| Plus/Minus | Post-production |
| 1998 | The X-Files | Sheriff Hartwell | Episode: "Bad Blood" |
| 2001–2004 | That '70s Show | Casey Kelso | 6 episodes |
| 2004 | Entourage | Himself | Episode: "Talk Show" |
| Saturday Night Live | Himself (host) | Episode: "Luke Wilson/U2" | |
| 2011–2013 | Enlightened | Levi Callow | 11 episodes |
| 2013 | Drunk History | Will Keith Kellogg | Episode: "Detroit" |
| 2016 | Roadies | Bill | 10 episodes |
| 2019 | Room 104 | Remus | Episode: "The Plot" |
| 2020–2022 | Stargirl | Pat Dugan | Main role |
| 2020–2021 | Emergency Call | Himself (host) | 10 episodes |
| 2021 | Saturday Night Live | Himself (cameo) | Episode: "Owen Wilson/Kacey Musgraves" |
| 2023 | Fired on Mars | Jeff Cooper (voice) | Main role |
| 2024 | No Good Deed | JD Campbell | Supporting Actor |
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