Wentworth Miller: Hollywood's Latest "It Boy"

Wentworth Earl Miller III, star of FOX's hit prison drama, "Prison Break" was born on June 6, 1972 in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, UK to Roxann Miller, a special education teacher, and Wentworth E. Miller, a lawyer. Wentworth is of African, Jamaican, English, and German descent on his father's side, and of Russian, French, Dutch, Syrian and Lebanese descent on his mother's side. He considers himself bi-racial. While born in the United Kingdom, he was raised in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY. He is the oldest of three children, which includes his two younger sisters, Leigh and Gillian. Wentworth is a 1990 graduate of Quaker Valley High School and a 1995 gradute of Princeton University where has a degree in English Literature.

After graduating from Princeton, Miller moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting and to support himself, work ed behind the scenes in the development department of a small production company that specialized in making made-for-TV movies. When Miller decided to pursue acting seriously, he landed several guest spots on shows like, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "ER", and "Popular". He got his first starring role in the TV mini series, "Dinotopia" , where he played introverted character, David. He then was able to land the breakthrough role and his first movie role in 2003's, "The Human Stain", in which he co-starred with Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman, playing the younger version of Anthony Hopkins' character.