ACTOR · BORN 1972
Jonny Lee Miller
- Born
- 15 November 1972, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK
- Known for
- Trainspotting (1996), Dark Shadows (2012), Dexter (2006), T2 Trainspotting (2017)
30 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Sep 2026
All facts (30)
- #001
Jonny Lee Miller runs a half-marathon twice a week. He completed the 2008 London Marathon in 3:01:40, averaging under seven minutes per mile. He has also completed a 50-mile ultramarathon in Bear Mountain, New York, for the charity Jonah's Just Begun, a campaign that raises funds for Sanfilippo Syndrome.
- #002
Miller's character in Trainspotting (1996) is obsessed with James Bond films, particularly the Sean Connery ones. In real life, his grandfather Bernard Lee played Bond's superior M in many of the films, including all of Connery's.
- #003
Miller is good friends with Benedict Cumberbatch, with whom he shared the central roles of Frankenstein and the creature in Danny Boyle's stage production "Frankenstein" (2011). Coincidentally, Miller was cast as Sherlock Holmes in Elementary (2012), while Cumberbatch had been playing the legendary detective in Sherlock (2010) since July 2010.
- #004
His grandfather is Bernard Lee, who played the character M in the first James Bond films.
- #005
He has played Scottish characters three times: in Trainspotting (1996), Complicity (2000) and The Flying Scotsman (2006). He did so so convincingly that many viewers and critics believed he was Scottish. Because of how often he did it, Craig Ferguson, who is actually Scottish, declared Miller an Honorary Scot.
- #006
Running is a hobby of his, and in 2008 he ran the London Marathon in 3 hours 1 minute.
- #007
He was the only non-Scottish member of the main cast of Trainspotting (1996).
- #008
He became a United States citizen in 2014.
- #009
He dropped out of school at 17 to continue his acting career.
- #010
His father is Alan Miller, a stage actor in the 1950s and '60s.
- #011
His ex-wife Angelina Jolie and his current wife Michele Hicks share the same birthday: June 4.
- #012
He is the godfather of Jude Law's eldest son, Rafferty Law, who was born on October 6, 1996.
- #013
Miller is a big N. Y. Rangers fan and was very excited when the Stanley Cup appeared on Elementary.
- #014
He jointly won the Olivier and Evening Standard Best Actor awards (alongside Benedict Cumberbatch) for Danny Boyle's London stage production 'Frankenstein'.
- #015
He appeared in two different adaptations of Jane Austen's 1814 novel "Mansfield Park": Mansfield Park (1983) and Mansfield Park (1999). He played Charles Price in the first and Edmund Bertram in the second. In Emma (2009) he played another Austen character, Mr. Knightley.
- #016
His wife Michele Hicks gave birth to their first child, a boy named Buster Timothy Miller, on December 3, 2008. The child weighed 9 pounds.
- #017
He was offered the role of Prince Henry in Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998).
- #018
He worked with Christopher Lee on Dark Shadows (2012), while his grandfather Bernard Lee worked with him on Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956), Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).
- #019
He lived near Jude Law and Ewan McGregor in Primrose Hill, London, England. He left the area in the early 2000s.
- #020
He was awarded the Evening Standard Theatre Award and the Olivier Award for Best Actor.
- #021
Jonny Lee Miller is a fan of Chelsea FC, the English football club.
- #022
Jonny Lee Miller co-owns the production company Natural Nylon with Ewan McGregor, Sadie Frost, Jude Law and producer Bradley Adams.
- #023
Jonny Lee Miller was a member of the NYMT (National Youth Music Theatre) in the United Kingdom.
- #024
In 1996, Jonny Lee Miller took on the role of "Woodrow F. Call" in Dead Man's Walk (1996), the prequel to Lonesome Dove (1989). That same year, he married Angelina Jolie, whose father, Jon Voight, had appeared in Return to Lonesome Dove (1993).
- #025
Jonny Lee Miller is the former son-in-law of Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand.
- #026
Jonny Lee Miller is appearing on stage at the American Airlines Theatre in "After Miss Julie" on Broadway alongside Sienna Miller.
- #027
Jonny Lee Miller played Sherlock Holmes (in Elementary (2012)) and Woodrow F. Call (in Dead Man's Walk (1996)). The two characters' working partners, John Watson and Augustus McCrae, were played by Robert Duvall (in Lonesome Dove (1989) and The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)).
- #028
Jonny Lee Miller is in Los Angeles for the upcoming series Eli Stone (2008).
- #029
Jonny Lee Miller is the former brother-in-law of actor James Haven.
- #030
Jonny Lee Miller is currently in the Los Angeles area for the series Smith (2006).
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