Born in Portland, Maine, Nick Wyman arrived at the age of six in New Jersey, where he discovered his lifelong career goal: digging up dinosaurs. Paleontology faded, as did lawyering and being an English professor — the last with an assist from the English department at Harvard College, where his English studies had taken a back seat to Shakespeare, Gilbert & Sullivan, and the Hasty Pudding Show. Two years of study in NYC at the Circle in the Square Professional Theatre Workshop led Nick to a 45-year career of film, television, Broadway and Off-Broadway shows.

The Covid pandemic interrupted Nick's Off-Broadway run in Claudia Rankine's new play "Help" about white male privilege. Last year, Nick filmed several episodes of Hulu's "Future Man" as Abraham Lincoln after being acclaimed by the New York Times for his work as Bryan Cranston's boss in the seven-month run of "Network" (his 16th Broadway show.)

Film audiences have seen him kick Bruce Willis's butt in "Die Hard With a Vengeance," sell Steve Martin a cab in "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles", and dig up a body for Chevy Chase in "Funny Farm." In addition to appearances on numerous television series such as "VEEP," "Boardwalk Empire," "Elementary," and two years as Todd's abusive father Peter Manning on "One Life to Live," Nick has appeared in dozens and dozens of TV commercials as well as voicing a number of ads.

After serving on Actors' Equity's governing council for twenty years, Nick was elected National President of the union and served for five years. He has served on the board of trustees of the Actors Fund and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and has been a trustee for twenty years of the Equity-League Pension & Health Funds.

While playing Lennie in "Of Mice and Men" at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Nick broke the neck of a beautiful Juilliard-trained actress named Beth McDonald eight times a week. He has spent the past forty years as her husband attempting to make amends. They have three wonderful children: Caitlin, Madeline and Thomas.