Lou Wilson is a professional TTRPG player and actor, and is currently a writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live! since 2020[1] as well as an announcer for the show since January 2022.[2] He played Nydas Okiro in the four-part miniseries Exandria Unlimited: Calamity.[3]
Critical Role Productions[]
Player Characters[]
- Nydas Okiro (Exandria Unlimited: Calamity)
- Fontaine Savoy (CompostGuru) "Generation Nord" (Sx72)
![Nydas Okiro[art 2]](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/criticalrole/images/3/31/Nydas_official.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/120?cb=20220527061320 "Nydas Okiro (1.79 MB)")
Other work[]
Wilson, along with Ally Beardsley and Emily Axford among others, is one of the "Intrepid Heroes" core players of the D&D real play show Dimension 20 created by Brennan Lee Mulligan. His characters include:
- Fabian Seacaster (Fantasy High, Fantasy High: Sophmore Year (Dimension 20 LIVE), and Fantasy High: Junior Year)
- Kingston Brown (The Unsleeping City and The Unsleeping City: Chapter II)
- King Amethar (A Crown of Candy)
- Gunthrie “Gunnie” Miggles-Rashbax (A Starstruck Odyssey)
- Pinocchio (Neverafter) all of which were DMed by Mulligan.
- Whitney Jammer (Misfits and Magic) played alongside Erika Ishii and Mulligan, and GMed by Aabria Iyengar.
- Lord Squak Airavis (A Court of Fey & Flowers) played alongside Mulligan, Axford, and Omar Najam, also GMed by Iyengar.
- Thane Delissandro Katzon (prequel to A Crown of Candy, The Ravening War) played alongside Mulligan, Iyengar, and Anjali Bhimani, and GMed by Matthew Mercer.
Lou also joined Not Another D&D Podcast as a guest player for the six-episode Hexbloods Arc, in the role of Jabari Hightower. He returned to reprise the role in the Eldermourne campaign finale.
As an actor, Lou appeared as Lucas Wiley in Netfix TV series American Vandal, as Frank in The Guest Book, and as Richie in The King of Staten Island.[4] Until 2020, Wilson wrote for Playboy and "Crank Yankers".[1]
Trivia[]
Growing up in Altadena, California, Lou was in love with jazz and started learning to play a tenor saxophone.[2][1]
External links[]
Lou Wilson on the Dimension 20 Wiki
References[]
Art:
- ↑ Screenshot of Lou Wilson from "Excelsior" (E3x01). This file is a copyrighted work. Its use in this article is asserted to qualify as fair use of the material under United States copyright law.
- ↑ Official portrait by Category:Art by Hannah Friederichs