Take the BuddyTV Personality Quiz: Which Prison Break Character Are You? Wentworth Miller as Michael Scofield Born on June 2, 1972 in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, Wentworth Earl Miller III is a compelling and critically acclaimed young actor whose credits span both television and feature film. He has a very rich heritage, having descended from an African-American, Jamaican, English, German Jewish and Cherokee bloodline. His father is a Rhodes scholar and moved his family to Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York when Miller was a year old. It was there that Miller attended Midwood High School, but for his last year, studied at Quaker Valley Senior High School in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. After he graduated, he went on to pursue his tertiary education at the prestigious Princeton University, where he majored in English Literature was a member of the a cappella group, the Tiger Tones and a cartoonist for the school paper.
Before reaching great success in show business, Miller was an employee at several networks in the Los Angeles area. Eventually, he decided to start auditioning, and after numerous table-reads, finally landed guest spots on a variety of shows, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER and Popular. Miller also starred in the Hallmark series Dinotopia.
Miller subsequently appeared in the movie Underworld and guest-starred on Joan of Arcadia and Ghost Whisperer before joining the cast of Prison Break as Michael Scofield, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama in 2006.
For the big screen, Miller had the opportunity to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins in the critically-acclaimed film, The Human Stain. Although the movie did not do well in the movie theaters, Miller told Ellen DeGeneres on the comedienne's talk show that he is still very grateful for the experience. The film also brought about his reconciliation with Princeton professor, Cornel West, whom he had apparently offended with one of his race-themed cartoons in The Daily Princetonian. The particular cartoon also made a number of people in and out of the school angry, but Miller has expressed his apology only to West, saying that if people cannot understand or accept him, then there really is no need for him to explain himself and his actions.
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