Wentworth Earl Miller III was born on June 2,1972 and is an American-British actor and screenwriter.
30 Facts About Wentworth Miller
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Wentworth Miller made his screenwriting debut with the 2013 thriller film Stoker.
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Wentworth Miller's mother, Roxann, 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.
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Wentworth Miller said in 2003 that his father is black and his mother is white.
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Wentworth Miller's father is of African-American, Jamaican, German, and English ancestry; his mother is of Rusyn, Swedish, French, Dutch, Syrian, and Lebanese ancestry.
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Wentworth Miller's family moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn, when he was a year old.
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Wentworth Miller 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.
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In 1995, Wentworth Miller relocated to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.
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Wentworth Miller's first starring role was in 2002 as the sensitive, introverted David Scott in ABC's mini-series Dinotopia.
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Wentworth Miller identified strongly with the core dilemma of the movie, about a black man who chooses to "pass" as white.
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Wentworth Miller worked extensively on the role, not only in researching Anthony Hopkins, but by embarking on a four-month regimen to accurately portray Silk as a boxer.
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In 2005, Wentworth Miller was cast as Michael Scofield in Fox Network's television drama Prison Break.
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Wentworth Miller played the role of a gifted structural engineer who created an elaborate scheme to help his brother, Lincoln Burrows, escape death row after being found guilty of a crime he did not commit.
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Wentworth Miller's character had a full upper body tattoo.
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Wentworth Miller appeared in two Mariah Carey music videos, "It's Like That" as a party guest and "We Belong Together" as her love interest.
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Wentworth Miller 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.
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Wentworth Miller wrote the screenplay for the film Stoker, as well as a prequel to Stoker, Uncle Charlie.
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Wentworth Miller described it as a "horror film, a family drama and a psychological thriller".
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Wentworth Miller made his first appearance in the fourth episode of the first season, and reprised his role on Legends of Tomorrow.
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Wentworth Miller exited Legends of Tomorrow as a series regular at the end of season one, but signed a contract with Warner Bros.
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Wentworth Miller wrote the screenplay for the 2016 horror film The Disappointments Room, produced by Voltage Pictures and Killer Films.
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Wentworth Miller 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.
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In 2020, Wentworth Miller announced that he was no longer interested in playing straight roles for film or television and that he would not participate in a sixth season of Prison Break if it were produced.
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Wentworth Miller holds dual British and US citizenship by virtue of his birth in the United Kingdom to American parents.
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In 2007, Wentworth Miller denied to InStyle magazine that he was gay.
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Wentworth Miller wrote that he "cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly".
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At the 2013 Human Rights Campaign Dinner in Seattle, Washington, Wentworth Miller said he had attempted suicide multiple times as a teenager before coming out as gay.
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On October 17,2016, Active Minds, a mental health charity, announced that Wentworth Miller would be an ambassador for the organization.
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Wentworth Miller said that his weight gain was due to him finding comfort in food as he was suicidal.
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Wentworth Miller revealed he had been diagnosed with autism "a year ago" on July 27,2021.