DR. JOHN CARTER, Resident: Now a senior resident, Dr. John Carter is experiencing all the joys and trials of his first years as a doctor. His three years in the emergency room plus a year as a surgical intern under the intense scrutiny of Dr. Benton have prepared him well, but some lessons can only be learned through experience.

For his role as Dr. John Carter on "ER," Noah Wyle has received five Emmy Award nominations, as well as three Golden Globe nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series.

Born in Hollywood, California, Wyle was raised there along with his six brothers and sisters. He developed a genuine interest in acting after his junior year in high school, when he participated in a theatre arts program at Northwestern University. After graduation from high school, he found a seedy apartment on Hollywood Boulevard and began studying with acting teacher Larry Moss.

Wyle scored his first professional role in the NBC mini-series "Blind Faith" and followed that with his first feature film, "Crooked Hearts," in which he played a son in a dysfunctional family. In 1990, he worked in another feature, "There Goes My Baby."

After appearing in several local plays in Los Angeles, he was cast in the box-office hit "A Few Good Men." He also appeared in the feature "Swing Kids" as a leader in the Hitler Youth and in "The Myth of Fingerprints" with Roy Scheider and Blythe Danner. Wyle starred as Steve Jobs in the cable movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" and as the President's interpreter in last year's live production of "Fail Safe."

Wyle is the artistic producer of his own Los Angeles theatre company, the Blank Theater Company, which stages an annual young playwrights festival and recently acquired Second Stage Theater in Hollywood, where the company has mounted numerous successful productions.

Wyle devotes much of his free time to the international nonprofit organization Doctors of the World. He enjoys basketball, traveling, photography and going to the movies. He lives in Los Angeles, and his birthday is June 4.