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Wentworth Miller
Wentworth Miller, October 2008
Born	Wentworth Earl Miller III 2 June 1972 (1972-06-02) (age 37) Chipping Norton, England, UK
Years active	1998–present

Wentworth Earl Miller III (born 2 June 1972) is a Golden Globe-nominated British-born American actor who rose to stardom following his role as Michael Scofield in the Fox Network television series Prison Break.

Contents 1 Life and career 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

Life and career

Early life

Miller was born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, UK; the son of Roxann, a special education teacher, and Wentworth Earl Miller II, a lawyer and teacher.¹ Miller's father, a Rhodes Scholar, was studying at Oxford at the time of Miller's birth. Miller has stated that his father is of African-American, Jamaican, English, German, and Jewish descent; his mother is of Russian, French, Dutch, Syrian and Lebanese ancestry.²³⁴

His family moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, when he was one. He retains dual citizenship.⁵ He has two sisters, Leigh and Gillian. Miller attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a member of SING!, an annual musical production that was started by Midwood. He graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in English Literature. While at Princeton, he performed with the a cappella group the Princeton Tigertones.

Career

In 1995, he went to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.⁶ He has stated about his rocky road to stardom that "it was a long time in the coming and there were a lot of upsets and a lot of failures and roadblocks, but I couldn’t walk away from it. I needed it like I needed air, it was just something I had to do."⁷

Miller's first starring role was as the sensitive and introverted David in ABC's mini-series Dinotopia. After appearing in a few minor television roles, he moved on to co-star in the 2003 film The Human Stain, playing the younger version of the Anthony Hopkins character, Coleman Silk. He identified strongly with the core dilemma of the movie, being that of a man struggling with his heritage. “My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, at times, caught between two communities.”⁸ Miller worked extensively on the role, not only in researching Anthony Hopkins, but by embarking on a 4 month regime to accurately portray Silk as a boxer. All in all, Miller has extremely fond memories of the experience, quoting from Toni Morrison’s novel BELOVED... “Definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.”⁹

Miller's first TV appearance was as student-turned-sea monster Gage Petronzi on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Go Fish", 1998).

In 2005, Miller was cast as Michael Scofield in Fox Network's television drama Prison Break. He played the role of a caring brother who created an elaborate scheme to help his brother, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) escape death row after being found guilty of a crime he did not commit. His performance in the show earned him a 2005 Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series.¹⁰

Miller appeared in two Mariah Carey music videos, "It's Like That" and "We Belong Together" as a party guest. Director Brett Ratner, who directed the pilot episode of Prison Break, was signed on to also direct the two Carey videos. Ratner brought up the idea to Carey about using Miller in the videos. After showing her Miller's picture, she agreed to use him. Since both the videos and the pilot episode of Prison Break were being filmed at the same time, a special set was constructed on the set of the videos, so that Miller would be able to work simultaneously on both projects. He says, "Mariah's an international icon. The two days I spent working on her video did more for my career, gave me more exposure, than anything I had done before Prison Break. I'm grateful for the opportunity."¹¹

Wentworth is currently dating Laura Smith of Lowestoft Suffolk.

His first tv apperance after Prison Break is guest starring on the Season 11 Premire of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. ¹²

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
2000	Romeo & Juliet	Paris
2001	Room 302	Server #1	Short film
2003	The Human Stain	Young Coleman Silk	Based on the novel The Human Stain (2000) by Philip Roth.
	Underworld	Dr. Adam Lockwood
2005	The Confession	The Prisoner/Tom	Short film
	Stealth	EDI	Voice
2009	Prison Break: The Final Break	Michael Scofield	Straight to DVD
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Gage Petronzi	Season two, episode 20: "Go Fish"
1999	Time of Your Life	Nelson	Season one, episode 6: "The Time the Truth Was Told"
2000	Popular	Adam Rotchild Ryan	Season one, episode 16: "All About Adam" Season one, episode 18: "Ch-Ch-Changes"
	Time of Your Life	Nelson	Season one, episode 11: "The Time They Got E-Rotic"
	ER	Mike Palmieri	Season seven, episode 1: "Homecoming"
2002	Dinotopia	David Scott	Television miniseries
2005	Joan of Arcadia	Ryan Hunter	Season two, episode 21: "Common Thread" Season two, episode 22: "Something Wicked This Way Comes"
	Ghost Whisperer	Sgt. Paul Adams	Season one, episode 1: "Pilot"
2005–2009	Prison Break	Michael Scofield	Nominated: Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series — Drama

References

External links

• Wentworth Miller Interviews on theTVaddict.com
• Wentworth Miller At Seat42f
• Wentworth Miller at the Internet Movie Database
• Wentworth Miller at TV.com
• Wentworth Miller's biography at Prison Break's official website
• Broadband video interview with Wentworth Miller, discussing Prison Break
• Interview with Wentworth on WHO.com
• Blog fiction with Wentworth Miller

Persondata
NAME	Miller, Wentworth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Miller, Wentworth Earl, III
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Golden Globe-nominated British-born American actor
DATE OF BIRTH	2 June 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH