Geoffrey Lewis Blake (born August 20, 1962) is an American film and television actor. Blake is best known for his role as 'Wesley' (the abusive radical boyfriend) opposite Robin Wright's 'Jenny' in the Forrest Gump (1994). Blake has appeared alongside Tom Hanks in multiple films. Those performances are part of Blake's frequent collaborations with filmmakers such as Robert Zemeckis and Ron Howard (Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), Cast Away (2000), Apollo 13 (1995), Edtv (1999), Frost/Nixon (2008)). Blake's most critically acclaimed performance was that of the preppy pipe-smoking astrophysicist 'Fisher', the right-hand man, in the Sci-Fi Contact opposite Jodie Foster. ()