Wentworth Miller

Wentworth Miller
Miller in 2016
Born	Wentworth Earl Miller III (1972-06-02) June 2, 1972 (age 51) Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England
Other names	Ted Foulke
Citizenship	United States United Kingdom
Education	Princeton University (BA)
Occupations	Actor screenwriter
Years active	1998–present
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Wentworth Earl Miller III (born June 2, 1972)

Miller was born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, to American parents.^[2] His mother, Roxann (née Palm), is a special education teacher, and his father, Wentworth E. Miller II, is a lawyer and teacher, who was studying at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship at the time of Miller's birth.^[1][3][4] Miller said in 2003 that his father is black and his mother is white.^[5] His father is of African-American, Jamaican, German, and English ancestry; his mother is of Rusyn,^[6] Swedish, French, Dutch, Syrian, and Lebanese ancestry.^[7][8] He has two sisters, Leigh and Gillian.

Miller's family moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn, when he was a year old.^[4][9] He attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn, and graduated from Princeton University in 1995 with an BA in English after completing a 116-page long senior thesis, titled "Doubling and the Identity Construct in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre", under the supervision of Gina Dent.^[10][11] While at Princeton, he performed with the a cappella group the Princeton Tigertones and was a member of the Quadrangle Club and the Colonial Club.^[12]

Career

In 1995, Miller relocated to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.

Miller's first starring role was in 2002 as the sensitive, introverted David Scott in

In 2005, Miller was cast as Michael Scofield in

Miller appeared in two

In addition, Miller guest-starred in the Season 11 premiere of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Detective Nate Kendall, a detective from Precinct 24 of the New York City Police Department.^[17][18] He also featured in Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth film in the commercially successful Resident Evil film series based on the video game series of the same name; Miller plays Chris Redfield, one of the protagonists of the video game series.

Miller wrote the screenplay for the film Stoker, as well as a prequel to Stoker, Uncle Charlie.^[19] He used the pseudonym Ted Foulke, later explaining, "I just wanted the scripts to sink or swim on their own."^[20] Miller's script was voted to the 2010 "Black List" of the 10 best unproduced screenplays then making the rounds in Hollywood.^[21] The film is about a teenage girl who must deal with a mysterious uncle following the death of her father. Miller described it as a "horror film, a family drama and a psychological thriller".^[22] Although influenced by Bram Stoker's Dracula, Miller has clarified that Stoker is not a vampire story.^[22][23] Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt also influenced the film but only as a jumping-off point, from which the story takes a different direction.^[22] Park Chan-wook directed, with stars Mia Wasikowska as the teenager, Nicole Kidman as the mother, and Matthew Goode as the uncle.^[24] The film was released in 2013, and received generally positive reviews from critics.^[25]

In July 2014, it was announced that Miller had joined the cast of

Miller wrote the screenplay for the 2016 horror film The Disappointments Room, produced by Voltage Pictures and Killer Films.^[29] The film received negative reviews from critics.^[30] He is reportedly in negotiations to write the screenplay adaptation of the novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski which is set to be produced by Oprah Winfrey and Tom Hanks among others.^[31]

Miller

Miller lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He holds dual British and US citizenship by virtue of his birth in the United Kingdom to American parents.^[23]

In 2007, Miller denied to