The sun is shining these days on Patrick Wilson, the Broadway, film and TV actor raised in St. Petersburg. Sunday at Ferg’s Pavilion, he’ll play drums and sing with the Wilson Van, the ‘80s-style rock ‘n’ roll band that also includes his brothers Mark (lead guitar) and Paul (vocals).
Next month, the wattage turns up considerably.
June 5 brings the premiere of the Apple TV series Cape Fear, in which Wilson is co-billed with Amy Adams. It’s based on the similarly-titled movies from 1962 and 1991, in which a violent ex-con stalks and torments the prosecutor that convicted him. Based on the novel The Executioners, Cape Fear is a tense, sordid revenge story. The attorney fears (quite justifiably) for the safety of his family.
In this new, 10-part series, the tattooed and menacing bad guy Max Cady is played by Javier Bardem, following in the formidable footsteps of Robert Mitchum (from the ‘62 movie) and Robert De Niro (from ’91).
Wilson plays attorney Tom Bowden, whose wife, in this version, is also an attorney. They jointly put Cady behind bars, and now he’s targeting them both.
Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg are among the executive producers.
Wait, there’s more. Wilson, a graduate of the theater arts program at Shorecrest Preparatory School, and Carnegie Mellon University, will be at the 79th annual Tony Awards ceremony June 9.
He is a producer of The Lost Boys, which with 12 Tony nominations is the most-nominated musical of 2026. It’s based on the 1980s cult film about a group of teenage vampires.
As a Broadway actor, Wilson received Tony nominations for The Full Monty (2001) and Oklahoma! (2002). He was nominated for Golden Globes for Angels in America (2003) and the TV series Fargo (2015).
His filmography includes all three entries in the Conjuring series, along with Aquaman, Watchmen, Running With Scissors, Moonfall and Insidious.
Brother Mark Wilson has been the news anchor for Tampa Bay’s WTVT/Fox 13 since 2014; Paul Wilson is a sometime actor who owns the advertising, marketing and public relations firm Wilson Media.
Their father is John Wilson, one of the most respected TV news anchors in the southeast.
The brothers have always been garage-band rockers (the name the Wilson Van is a play on Van Halen, a big source of inspiration for them).
In a 2022 interview with the Catalyst, Patrick Wilson explained why the siblings, all of whom have busy careers, always make time to “get the band back together.”
It was 2010, he said, when “We played for Mark’s birthday, it went well, and we thought ‘This was just for chuckles. I got an idea. As much as we want to give back to the community, and between what I do for a living, what Mark does for a living, what Paul does for a living … hang on, we can do these as charity events.’”
Sunday’s show is a benefit for the Wilson Family Foundation, which has raised more than $300,000 for charities in the Tampa Bay area.
“But it’s also an excuse – when am I going to hang with my brothers? We all have our own lives, so it gives us a great reason to come together, do what we love and give back to the community, and spend some time with your family. Check, check, check, you know?”
The Wilson Van performs Sunday at 7 p.m. Get tickets at this link.
