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'''Geoffrey Lewis Blake''' (born August 20, 1962) is an American film and television [[actor]]. Geoffrey Blake is an Emmy nominated, two-time SAG Award -winning actor best known for his role as 'Wesley' (the abusive radical boyfriend) opposite Robin Wright's 'Jenny' in the iconic Academy Award Best Picture Forrest Gump (1994). In addition to Forrest Gump (1994), Blake has appeared alongside Academy Award Winner Tom Hanks in multiple films. Those performances are part of Blake's frequent collaborations with such Academy Award -winning filmmakers as Robert Zemeckis and Ron Howard (Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), Cast Away (2000), Apollo 13 (1995), Edtv (1999), Frost/Nixon (2008)) whose films alone have garnered over $2,000,000,000 in Box office. Blake's most critically acclaimed performance was that of the preppy pipe-smoking astrophysicist 'Fisher', the right -hand man, in the Sci-Fi classic Contact opposite Academy Award winner Jodie Foster.

He had recurring roles in the television series ''[[Renegade (TV series)|Renegade]]'', ''[[Paper Dolls]]'', ''[[Homefront (US TV series)|Homefront]]'' and ''[[Any Day Now (TV series)|Any Day Now]]''. His notable television guest-starring roles include playing Arjin in the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "[[Playing God (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)|Playing God]]", Strife in the ''[[Charmed]]'' episode "Apocalypse Not", and Dominic in the ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' episode "[[Lines in the Sand (House episode)|Lines in the Sand]]". In 2012, Blake appeared in the ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Closing Time", as an unsub who castrated his victims.

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