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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.[1] Miller was born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom where his father, a Rhodes Scholar was studying, but he was raised in Brooklyn.
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Miller graduated from Princeton University, and traveled the world performing with the school's famed a capella group, The Princeton Tigertones. Subsequently, Miller headed to Los Angeles to pursue a behind-the-scenes career in the entertainment industry, but he ended up becoming an actor.
Miller's first major role was as the sensitive and introverted David in ABC's mini-series Dinotopia. After having appeared 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. Though the movie was critically panned and unsuccessful in the box office, Miller's performance received virtually unanimous critical praise.
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 Golden Globe nomination in 2005. |
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