Wentworth Miller, an American-British actor and screenwriter, gained fame after playing the lead character Michael Scofield in the TV show Prison Break. His performance earned him a nomination for the 2005 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series.
Wentworth Miller Bio Details
Full name: Wentworth Earl Miller III
Date of birth: June 2, 1972
Age: 52 years (2024)
Place of birth: Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England
Gender: Male
Father: Wentworth Earl Miller II
Mother: Joy Marie Palm-Miller
Siblings: Gillian Miller, Leigh Miller
Height: 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Sexual orientation: Homosexual
Profession: Actor and screenwriter
Childhood & Education
Wentworth Earl Miller III was born on June 2, 1972, in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. His parents are Wentworth Earl Miller II, an attorney and educator, and Joy Marie, a teacher for special needs students. He has two siblings, Leigh and Gillian.
From a young age, Wentworth had a natural inclination towards acting and took part in various school plays. However, he was hesitant about pursuing a career in acting during his youth.
He attended ‘Midwood High School’ in Brooklyn and was involved in ‘SING!,’ a yearly musical performance put on by the school. In 1990, he graduated from ‘Quaker Valley High School’ in Pennsylvania.
He received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the prestigious ‘Princeton University’ in 1995. During his time in college, he was part of the acclaimed acappella group ‘Princeton Tigertones.’
Career
In 2002, Wentworth Miller stepped into the spotlight with his lead role as the reserved and thoughtful David Scott in the ABC mini-series Dinotopia.
Following this, he landed a few small television roles before taking on a supporting role in the 2003 movie The Human Stain. In the film, he portrayed the younger version of Coleman Silk, played by Anthony Hopkins.
Miller dedicated a great deal of time and effort to his role, delving into research on Anthony Hopkins and undergoing a four-month training program to realistically depict Silk as a boxer. He also made a brief appearance in the film Underworld in 2003, portraying a doctor and companion to the character Michael Corvin.
Miller landed the role of Michael Scofield on the Fox Network series Prison Break in 2005. He portrayed a skilled structural engineer who devised a complex plan to assist his brother Lincoln Burrows (played by Dominic Purcell) in escaping from death row, despite being wrongfully convicted.
Wentworth Miller received a nomination for the 2005 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series for his work on the show. Although the show ended in 2009 after four seasons, a new fifth season consisting of nine episodes was released on April 4, 2017, with Miller returning to his role.
Miller appeared in two Mariah Carey music videos, “It’s Like That” as a guest at a party and “We Belong Together” as her romantic partner. The director of the first episode of Prison Break, Brett Ratner, was also chosen to direct both of Carey’s videos and he chose to cast Miller in them as well.
Furthermore, Wentworth Miller made a special appearance in the first episode of the 11th season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Detective Nate Kendall, a member of Precinct 24 in the NYPD.
He also had a role in Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth installment in the popular film series adapted from the video game franchise of the same title. In this film, Miller portrays Chris Redfield, as one of the main characters in the video game series.
Wentworth Miller was revealed to have been cast in The CW’s The Flash as Leonard Snart/Captain Cold in July 2014. He debuted in the first season’s fourth episode and later appeared on Legends of Tomorrow.
Although he left the latter as a main character after the first season, he remained under contract with Warner Bros. TV to play Snart on different shows within the Arrowverse.
In 2016, Miller penned the script for the horror movie The Disappointments Room, which Voltage Pictures and Killer Films produced. Unfortunately, the film was met with unfavorable critiques.
Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller are set to team up on screen once again! According to Variety, the two actors will reunite after 19 years since the debut of Prison Break, to appear in the upcoming show Snatchback. Purcell also announced the exciting news on his Instagram.
As reported by the publication, the show was described in an official summary provided by the outlet and created and produced by Scott Rosenbaum.
“The show follows a highly skilled privately contracted team of operatives as they recover hostages across the globe from some of the most exotic and equally dangerous locations on the planet.”
Personal Life
In 2013, Wentworth Miller publicly revealed that he was gay. Then, in 2020, he declared that he no longer wanted to play heterosexual characters in movies or TV shows. As a result, he stated that he would not be involved in a potential sixth season of Prison Break.
Net Worth
Wentworth Miller, an actor, model, and screenwriter originally from England, has a net worth of $4 million. He gained fame for his role as Michael Scofield on the Fox show “Prison Break,” which aired from 2005 to 2009 and was revived for a fifth season in 2017.
