This lanky, dark-haired young actor has appeared in films about troubled or aimless youth. Although he was promoted as a first-time performer when Richard Linklater cast him in the 1993 film "Dazed and Confused", Wiggins had already co-starred in "The Perkins Family" (PBS, 1987), a short-lived soap opera entirely written and acted by kids.

Nonetheless, Wiggins was still an unknown when cast by Linklater as Mitch, the scraggly young "Everyman" in "Dazed and Confused", an episodic look at 70s-era high schoolers in a culturally arid Texas town. Audiences and reviewers either loved or hated the