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Wentworth Miller Profile |
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Birth Date: June 2, 1972
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Birth Place: Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, UK
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Birth Name: Wentworth Earl Miller III
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Height:
6'1½"
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Biography |
Wentworth Earl Miller III (born on June 2, 1972) is an
English-born American actor.
Miller is multiracial, being of African American, Jamaican,
English, and German Jewish descent on his father's side, and
of Russian, French, Dutch, Syrian and Lebanese descent on
his mother's. Miller was born in Chipping Norton,
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom where his father, a Rhodes
Scholar, was studying, but he was raised in Brooklyn.
Miller graduated from Princeton University with a degree of
English, and traveled the world performing with the school's
famed a capella group, The Princeton Tigertones.
Subsequently, Miller headed to Los Angeles to pursue an
acting career. Miller ended up spending years doing
behind-the-scenes work to support himself before devoting
himself seriously to auditioning for roles.
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, Miller moved on
to co-star in the film The Human Stain (2003), playing the
younger version of a racially confused character played by
Anthony Hopkins.
Miller further increased his profile in 2005 when he starred
in singer Mariah Carey's music videos, "It's Like That" and
"We Belong Together." He currently has a starring role as
Michael Scofield in the successful Fox Network television
drama Prison Break, for which he received a 2005 Golden
Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series. |
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Other
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Graduated from Princeton with a degree in English
Is of Black, Jamaican, English, German, French, Dutch,
Syrian and Lebanese descents.
Graduated from Midwood H.S. at Brooklyn College (Brooklyn,
N.Y.) in 1990in 1990.
He has one eye that is a different color than the other. His
left eye is green while his right eye is hazel.
His mother is a Special Education Teacher and a graduate
from Yale.
His father is a Lawyer and a graduate of Yale.
He has 2 younger sisters, Gillian and Leigh, who is the
youngest. Gillian is a Lawyer and Leigh is in Law School. |
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