Wentworth Earl Miller III (born 2 June 1972) is an English-American
actor and screenwriter. He rose to prominence following his starring
role as Michael Scofield in the Fox series Prison Break, for which he
received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor â€"
Television Series Drama in 2005. He made his screenwriting debut with
the 2013 thriller film Stoker. In 2014, he began playing Leonard Snart
/ Captain Cold in a recurring role on The CW series The Flash before
becoming a series regular on the spin-off, Legends of Tomorrow.Miller
was born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, to American
parents. His mother, Roxann (née Palm), is a special education
teacher, and his father, Wentworth E. Miller II, is a lawyer and
teacher, who was studying at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes
Scholarship at the time of Miller's birth. Miller said in 2003 that
his father is black and his mother is white. His father is of
African-American, Jamaican, German, and English ancestry; his mother
is of Rusyn, Swedish, French, Dutch, Syrian, and Lebanese ancestry.
actor and screenwriter. He rose to prominence following his starring
role as Michael Scofield in the Fox series Prison Break, for which he
received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor â€"
Television Series Drama in 2005. He made his screenwriting debut with
the 2013 thriller film Stoker. In 2014, he began playing Leonard Snart
/ Captain Cold in a recurring role on The CW series The Flash before
becoming a series regular on the spin-off, Legends of Tomorrow.Miller
was born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, to American
parents. His mother, Roxann (née Palm), is a special education
teacher, and his father, Wentworth E. Miller II, is a lawyer and
teacher, who was studying at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes
Scholarship at the time of Miller's birth. Miller said in 2003 that
his father is black and his mother is white. His father is of
African-American, Jamaican, German, and English ancestry; his mother
is of Rusyn, Swedish, French, Dutch, Syrian, and Lebanese ancestry.
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