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Born in the United Kingdom, raised in Brooklyn, New York, and a
graduate of Princeton University, Wentworth Miller is a compelling and
critically acclaimed young actor whose credits span both television and
feature film.
Miller began his career in the in ...(read more)
Born in the United Kingdom, raised in Brooklyn, New York, and a
graduate of Princeton University, Wentworth Miller is a compelling and
critically acclaimed young actor whose credits span both television and
feature film.
Miller began his career in the industry on the other side of the
camera. After graduating from college with a degree in English
Literature, Miller headed to Los Angeles in the spring of 1995 to work
in the development department of a small production company
specializing in movies made for television. However, it wasn't long
before his desire to realize the acting ambitions of his childhood
became undeniable.
Within the next few years, he landed guest spots on a variety of shows
including Buffy The Vampire Slayer, ER and Popular. He also starred in
the Hallmark "mega-series" Dinotopia.
Miller then segued to The Human Stain, a feature film directed by
Robert Benton and starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman. A
movie examining questions of race, class and identity, it featured
Hopkins as an embattled college professor struggling to conceal an
incredible secret, with Miller playing the same character as a young
man.
Miller subsequently appeared in the movie Underworld and guest-starred
on Joan Of Arcadia and Ghost Whisperer before joining the cast of
Prison Break, a groundbreaking television series that's quickly become
an international phenomenon. Playing a structural engineer who gets
himself thrown into the same prison where his brother is on death row
in order to break his brother out, Miller was nominated for a Golden
Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama
in 2006.
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Quotes:
* "When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky
proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school
or Wall Street."
* "You might look at my CV and see I've had 12 jobs, but I've been to
over 450 auditions so I' ...(read more)
* "When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky
proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school
or Wall Street."
* "You might look at my CV and see I've had 12 jobs, but I've been to
over 450 auditions so I've heard 'no' a lot more than I've heard 'yes'.
So if I go in looking only to meet my own standards, then that will
make taking that rejection a little bit easier. And when I do get that
job it will seem like icing on the cake."
* "The show is completely preposterous. But that aside, it's a great
ride."
* "My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself
to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through
that is from Toni Morrison's Beloved where she says, "Definitions
belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining
myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some
box where I don't particularly belong."
* "I have a little fantasy where in the last episode of the season, we
slip into the prison's sewer system, up through the grate, and pop out
a hatch - and we're face to face with 'Matthew Fox' and spend season 2 on a
tropical beach." - jokingly linking his show, "Prison Break" (2005)
to "Lost" (2004)
* "My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer
to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between
two communities."
* "I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly
comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing
Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or
losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons."
* "I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the
character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with
Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average
Joe." - on playing Michael Scofield with his regular physique
* When asked what character from literature he would like to play: "
Well, if we can expand the definition of literature to include comic
books, I'd definitely love a crack at General Zod from 'Superman'. So
I'm hoping that Bryan Singer makes a sequel to the 'Superman' that's
coming out and casts me." (TV Guide, April 10-16,2006)
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Wentworth Miller - Recent TV Show Episodes!
Prison Break - s4 | e21 - Rate Of Exchange / Killing Your Number
Familiar faces return to help Michael dismantle The Company once and for all.
Prison Break - s4 | e20 - Cowboys and Indians
Michael is forced to choose between saving either Lincoln or Sara.
Prison Break - s4 | e19 - S.O.B.
Michael has an uneasy reunion with Christina.
Prison Break - s4 | e18 - Vs.
Michael and Lincoln square off over Scylla.
Prison Break - s4 | e17 - The Mother Lode
The search for Scylla leads to an unexpected discovery.
Prison Break: The Sunshine State (s4 | e16)
Lincoln comes to Miami to recover Scylla, while Michael learns some surprising info from his past.
Prison Break: Going Under (s4 | e15)
Westmoreland returns to help uncover the meaning of Scylla, while Lincoln and Sucre race to stop Gretchen before Scylla is lost forever.
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