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50 interesting facts you missed about actor Wentworth Miller.
1. He was born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
2. Miller is the son of Joy Marie, a special education teacher.
3. His father Wentworth Earl Miller II, is a lawyer and teacher.
4. His father, a Rhodes Scholar, was studying at Oxford at the time of Miller's birth.
5. Miller has said, "my father is black and my mother is white".
6. His paternal grandparents were both black.
7. His paternal grandparents had African-American, Jamaican, English, German, Jewish, and Cherokee ancestry.
8. His mother is of Russian, French, Dutch, Syrian, and Lebanese ancestry.
9. Miller's family moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn when he was a year old.
10. He attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn.
11. Was a member of SING!, an annual musical production started by Midwood.
12. His family then moved to Aleppo Township, Pennsylvania.
13. He graduated from Quaker Valley High School in Leetsdale, Pennsylvania in 1990.
14. Graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in English literature.
15. While at Princeton, he performed with the a cappella group the Princeton Tigertones.
16. While in college he was a member of the Quadrangle Club and the Colonial Club.
17. In 1995, Miller relocated to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.
18. 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 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."
19. Miller's first TV appearance was as student-turned-sea monster Gage Petronzi on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Go Fish", 1998).
20. His father is graduate of Yale University.
21. He was born in United Kingdom to American parents.
22. He is a big comic book fan.
23. He is allergic to cats and dogs.
24. Miller's first starring role was in 2002 as the sensitive, introverted David Scott in ABC's mini-series Dinotopia.
25. 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, about a black man who chooses to "pass" as white.
26. 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.
27. Also in 2003, he had a minor role in the film Underworld, playing a doctor and friend of the character Michael Corvin.
28. 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.
29. The special effects for the tattoo for the role took over four hours to apply covering both the front of Miller's torso and his back, along with both arms from shoulders to wrists.
30. His performance in the show earned him a 2005 Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series.
31. Miller appeared in Mariah Carey music video, "It's Like That" as a party guest.
32. He appeared again in Mariah Carey music video for the song "We Belong Together" as her love interest.
33. 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.
34. In addition, Miller guest-starred in the Season 11 premiere of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Detective Nate Kendall, a detective from Precinct 24 of the NYPD.
35. 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.
36. Miller wrote the screenplay for the film Stoker, as well as a prequel to Stoker, Uncle Charlie.
37. He used the pseudonym Ted Foulke, later explaining, "I just wanted the scripts to sink or swim on their own."
38. Miller's script was voted to the 2010 "Black List" of the 10 best unproduced screenplays then making the rounds in Hollywood. 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".
39. 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.
40. 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.
41. 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.
42. Miller lives in Los Angeles, California.
43. He has two sisters, Leigh and Gillian.
44. He holds dual British and US citizenship by virtue of his birth in the United Kingdom to two American parents.
45. He is an actor, model, screenwriter and producer.
46. He rose to prominence 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.
47. He made his screenwriting debut with the 2013 thriller film Stoker.
48. He is currently playing a recurring villain in The Flash as Leonard Snart/Captain Cold and will play the role as a series regular in the spin-off DC's Legends of Tomorrow.
49. Miller will reprise his role as Michael Scofield for the Prison Break event series in the summer of 2016.
50. In 2007 was one of People Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People in the World.
