Friday, 6 February 2015

CELEBS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ARE BLACK

Popularly Known as Michael Scofield

BornWentworth Earl Miller III
June 2, 1972 (age 42)
Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England
ResidenceLos Angeles, California, U.S.
CitizenshipBritish / United States
EducationBachelor's degree
Alma materPrinceton University
Occupation
Years active1998–present
Wentworth Earl Miller III (born June 2, 1972) is a British-born American actor, model, screenwriter and producer. He rose to stardom following his role as Michael Scofield in the Fox series Prison Break, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for best actor in a leading role. He made his screenwriting debut with the 2013 thriller film Stoker.
Born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, Miller is the son of American parents Joy Marie (née Palm), a special education teacher, and Wentworth Earl Miller II, a lawyer and teacher.[1][2] His father, a Rhodes Scholar, was studying at Oxford at the time of Miller's birth. Miller is of multiethnic origin: his father is of African-American, Jamaican, English, German, Jewish, and Cherokee background, and his mother is of Russian, French, Dutch, Syrian, Lebanese, and Swedishancestry.[3][4][5][6][7]
Miller's family moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn when he was a year old.[8][9] He attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn, and was a member of SING!, an annual musical production started by Midwood. His family then moved to Aleppo Township, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Quaker Valley High School in Leetsdale, Pennsylvania in 1990, and graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in English literature. While at Princeton, he performed with the a cappellagroup the Princeton Tigertones, and was a member of the Quadrangle Club and the Colonial Club.[10

Career[edit]


In 1995, Miller relocated to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.[11] He has stated that his rocky road to stardom "was a long time in the coming and there were a lot of upsets and a lot of [12] Miller's first TV appearance was as student-turned-sea monster Gage Petronzi on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Go Fish", 1998).


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."
Miller's first starring role was in 2002 as the sensitive, introverted David Scott 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. 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. He had a minor role in the film Underworld, playing a doctor and friend of the character Michael Corvin.
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 character had a full upper body (front and back) tattoo. Covering both the front of Miller's torso and his back, along with both arms from shoulders to wrists, the special effects for the tattoo took over four hours to apply. His performance in the show earned him a 2005 Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series.[13]
Miller appeared in two Mariah Carey music videos, "It's Like That" as a party guest and "We Belong Together" as her love interest. Director Brett Ratner, who directed the pilot episode of Prison Break, was also signed on to direct the two Carey videos. Ratner decided to use Miller in the videos as well.[14]
In addition, Miller guest-starred in the Season 11 premiere of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit as Detective Nate Kendall, a detective from Precinct 24 of the NYPD.[15][16] 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.[17] He used the pseudonym Ted Foulke, later explaining, "I just wanted the scripts to sink or swim on their own."[18] Miller's script was voted to the 2010 "Black List" of the 10 best unproduced screenplays then making the rounds in Hollywood.[19] 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".[20] Although influenced by Bram Stoker's Dracula, Miller has clarified that Stoker is not a vampire story.[20][21] Hitchcock'sShadow of a Doubt also influenced the film but only as a jumping-off point, from which the story takes a different direction.[20] Park Chan-wook directed, with stars Mia Wasikowska as the teenager, Nicole Kidman as the mother, and Matthew Goode as the uncle.[22] The film was released in 2013.
Miller scripted the film The Loft, an American-Belgian thriller film, which is a remake of the 2008 Dutch-language Belgian film Loft by Erik Van Looy. The plot is about five married men who share an upmarket loft with their mistresses. When the body of a murdered woman is found in the loft, the men begin to suspect each other of having committed the gruesome crime, as they are the only ones with keys to the premises. Through flashbacks, which are intertwined with scenes from the present, the entire story is unraveled.
Miller has also sold a screenplay for a film called The Disappointments Room, the story reportedly also a family drama with horror elements similar to Stoker, to Voltage Pictures and Killer Films.[23] 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.[24]
In July 2014, it was announced that Miller had joined the cast of The CW superhero series The Flash in a recurring role as Leonard Snart/Captain Cold. He made his first appearance in the 4th episode of the first season.[25]

Personal life

Miller lives in Los Angeles, California. He has two sisters, Leigh and Gillian. He holds dual British and US citizenship by virtue of his birth in the United Kingdom to two American parents.[21]
In 2007, Miller denied to InStyle magazine that he was gay.[26] However, he came out as gay in August 2013, when he posted a letter on GLAAD's website declining an invitation to attend the Saint Petersburg International Film Festival because he felt "deeply troubled" by the Russian government's treatment of its gay citizens (referring to anti-LGBT legislation enacted the previous June which banned "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations").[27][28] 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".[27]
At the 2013 Human Rights Campaign Dinner in Seattle, Washington, Miller said he had attempted suicide multiple times as a teenager before coming out as gay.[29] He said: "When someone asked me if that was a cry for help, I said no, because I told no one. You only cry for help if you believe there's help to cry for."[29] He discussed struggling in Hollywood as a closeted actor, and talked about how his involvement in The Mankind Project helped him learn about brotherhood, sisterhood, and being part of a community.[30]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2001Room 302Server #1Short film
2003The Human StainYoung Coleman Silk
2003UnderworldDr. Adam Lockwood
2005The ConfessionThe Prisoner / TomShort film
2005StealthEDIVoice
2010Resident Evil: AfterlifeChris Redfield
2012The Mourning PortraitPhotographer
2012Resident Evil: RetributionChris RedfieldArchive footage
2013StokerWriter, co-producer
2014The LoftLuke Seacord
2015Resident Evil: The Final ChapterChris Redfield

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1998Buffy the Vampire SlayerGage PetronziEpisode: "Go Fish"
1999Time of Your LifeNelson2 episodes
2000PopularAdam Rothschild Ryan2 episodes
2000ERMike PalmieriEpisode: "Homecoming"
2002DinotopiaDavid Scott
2005Joan of ArcadiaRyan Hunter2 episodes
2005Ghost WhispererSgt. Paul AdamsEpisode: "Pilot"
2005–2009Prison BreakMichael Scofield81 episodes
2009Family GuyJock #4 / Popular Kid #2Voice, episode: "Stew-Roids"
2009Prison Break: The Final BreakMichael ScofieldTV film
2009Law and Order: Special Victims UnitNate KendallEpisode: "Unstable"
2011HouseBenjamin ByrdEpisode: "Charity Case"
2013Young Justice: InvasionDeathstroke2 episodes
2014-presentThe FlashLeonard Snart/Captain Cold[25]Recurring

Video games

YearGameRoleNotes
2010Prison Break: The ConspiracyMichael ScofieldVoice

Awards and nominations


YearAwardCategoryResultWork
2004Black Reel AwardBest ActorNominatedThe Human Stain
2004Black Reel AwardBest Breakthrough PerformanceNominatedThe Human Stain
2005Golden Globe AwardBest Performance by an Actor in a TV Series – DramaNominatedPrison Break
2005Saturn AwardBest Actor on TelevisionNominatedPrison Break
2006Teen Choice AwardChoice TV ActorNominatedPrison Break
2006Teen Choice AwardChoice TV Breakout StarNominatedPrison Break
2007Teen Choice AwardChoice TV Actor: DramaNominatedPrison Break
2008Teen Choice AwardChoice TV Actor: Action AdventureNominatedPrison Break
2013Fright Meter AwardBest ScreenplayNominatedStoker
2014Fangoria Chainsaw AwardBest ScreenplayRunner-upStoker
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