ACTOR
Wentworth Miller
- Known for
- The Loft (2014), The Human Stain (2003)
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Wentworth Miller is an actor best known for The Loft and The Human Stain.
All facts (21)
- #001
The tattoos Wentworth Miller wore for the series Prison Break (2005) required a four-hour makeup process.
- #002
Wentworth Miller graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English.
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Wentworth Miller was named after his grandfather and his father. All three Wentworths were given the name Captain Wentworth, a character in Jane Austen's "Persuasion"; the idea came from his father's great-great-grandmother.
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Wentworth Miller was named one of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People in the World (2007).
- #005
A big comic book fan, Wentworth Miller finally got the chance to play a character when he was cast as the Flash's enemy Captain Cold in ''The Flash (2014)''.
- #006
Wentworth Miller released the screenplay for Stoker (2013) under the pseudonym "Ted Foulke". He did so because he wanted his first script to stand on its own in the industry rather than be sold on the strength of a famous actor's name. When the film went into production, however, he allowed it to be credited under his real name.
- #007
In 2007, Wentworth Miller gave an interview to the German edition of InStyle Magazine, and the interviewer asked him whether rumors that he was gay were true. Miller replied: "I'm not gay but this rumor cannot be dispelled. I would like to have a girlfriend and a family. But I haven't met the right one yet. Until then I'm focusing on my work. I waited so long for this chance (the lead role in "Prison Break") that I enjoy every second on set, even if it means shooting 14 hours a day." In 2013, however, Miller published an open letter to the organizers of a Russian film festival he had been invited to; the letter was a refusal, citing the anti-gay law recently passed in Russia and the rise in homophobic violence there. In his letter he wrote in part: "... it would make me happy to say yes. However, as a gay man I must decline. I am deeply troubled by the current attitude toward and treatment of gay men and women by the Russian government. The situation is in no way acceptable, and I 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."
- #008
Wentworth Miller's father, Wentworth Earl Miller II, is a lawyer and a Yale University graduate.
- #009
Wentworth Miller named his five favorite films as The Shining (1980), Carrie (1976), Time Bandits (1981), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) and Bullets Over Broadway (1994).
- #010
Part of Wentworth Miller's guest-star role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), in the Season 2 episode "Go Fish" (Episode 20: May 5, 1998), was used in the montage of footage in the opening title sequence of the third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997).
- #011
While at Princeton, Wentworth Miller performed with the a cappella group the Princeton Tigertones.
- #012
Wentworth Miller's father is of Afro-Jamaican and African-American (English and German) descent, while his mother is of Dutch, French, Swedish, Lebanese/Syrian, Austrian, Rusyn and distant Spanish and Polish descent. Wentworth's paternal grandfather, Wentworth Earl Miller, was born in New York to Afro-Jamaican immigrants Claude Cephas Miller and Rhena Jane Newman. Wentworth's paternal grandmother, Pauline Pinkston, was born in Tennessee to African-American parents Greene Fort Pinkston and Bertha Horne. Wentworth's father also has English and German ancestry. Wentworth's maternal grandfather, Frederick William Palm, was the son of Hendrik Frederik Palm (born in Willemstad, capital of the Caribbean island of Curaçao, with Dutch, French, Swedish, Spanish and distant Polish ancestry) and Melekia Sabah (daughter of Lebanese/Syrian immigrants). Wentworth's maternal grandmother, Mildred Emiliya Hawaka, was the daughter of Nicholas Hawaka and Florence Busczniewicz, who had Rusyn ancestry.
- #013
After working 14 hours a day for 10 months a year for four consecutive years on the series Prison Break (2005), Wentworth Miller took a long-awaited rest.
- #014
Wentworth Miller is allergic to cats and dogs as well as to certain foods.
- #015
Wentworth Miller was born in the United Kingdom but insists he is a full American.
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Wentworth Miller has two younger sisters, Gillian and Leigh. Gillian is working toward her doctorate in Massachusetts, and Leigh is studying at law school in Virginia.
- #017
According to the special features on the Prison Break (2005) DVD, Wentworth Miller auditioned for Superman/Clark Kent while the project was still in Brett Ratner's hands.
- #018
Wentworth Miller has the distinction of being one of the few actors to appear in both the Underworld film and the Resident Evil film, two of Sony's longest-running horror franchises.
- #019
Wentworth Miller grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
- #020
Wentworth Miller graduated from Quaker Valley High School in 1990 and moved to Sewickley Heights with his father for his senior year of high school.
- #021
Around the time of Dinotopia (2002), Wentworth Miller's parents were in the process of divorcing.
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