Nickname: Stinky (because of being sarcastic in the college choir)

Height: 6'1/2 "(1.84—1.85 meters).

Date of birth:1June 2, 972

Place of birth: Oxfordshire, England

Constellation: Gemini

Nationality: USA

Region: Europe and America

Occupation: actor

Starring in movies: Top Secret Flight (dubbing), Invisibility (2005), Human Stain, Human Stain (2003), Legend of the Dark Night (2003) and so on.

Family: father-Miller II, Earl of Wentworth, mother-Joey, two little sisters.

Wentworth Miller's father is descended from African-American, Jamaican, British and Jewish, while his mother is descended from French, Dutch, Syrian and Lebanese. The complicated pedigree predestined him to be a special half-breed. For example, his left eye is light brown and his right eye is light green. These characteristics have injected many unpredictable mysteries into his near-perfect appearance.

Wentworth Miller said that so far, he has made two very important decisions: first, after graduating from Princeton University, he did not choose the elite world of Wall Street, but turned to devote himself to the colorful universe of Hollywood; Second, after Hollywood 10 years, we still have to insist on not giving up.

Be famous at the end of 10.

Q:/kloc-how have you been in the past 0/0 years?

Miller: In 10, I had many unforgettable moments-no money in my wallet, working in a room without air conditioning in summer, being despised when doing odd jobs ... too many.

Q: Do you like to describe yourself as "overnight fame"?

Miller: My "one night" may be a bit long-10 years. 500 auditions and countless "you can't", I'm used to it. This is my 10 lifestyle, and I know it very well. I know what it's like to fail and be rejected.

Born "unbelief"

Q: Why did you want to go to Hollywood when you graduated from Princeton?

Miller: At that time, all my friends wanted to work in law school or Wall Street. So they think I'm crazy and my parents are worried about me. They can't figure out why Princeton graduates want to go to Hollywood as walk-ons. Actually, I just want to break through, and I don't want to be like others.

Q: Why didn't you give up during the long walk-on years?

Miller: If I give up, I won't be able to wait for Prison Break, and no one will know me. I know I am destined to take a different road from others, and I like this road.

Still single

Q: Everyone can't believe the fact that you are still handsome in prison clothes.

Miller: Now many people meet me in the street. They are all crazy. When they rushed at me, my face might still be tight and my mind would be blank.

Q: You and Mike (the hero who escaped from prison) are really similar, and they both have a unique resilience-as long as they don't die, everything has hope.

Miller: I'm flattered. Mike is not superman, but he is still perfect: calm, wise, brave, imaginative and sexy ... and I don't have as many advantages as him, and I'm not very sexy. Besides, I'm not as strong and sharp as Mike. I am a very lazy person.

Q: Are you still single?

Miller: My schedule is so full that I don't have time to date. It's been a long time since we last fell in love, leaving only some memories and residual enthusiasm. In fact, even if there is nothing, at least I dare to dream. Nowadays, many people dare not dream, because they can't stand the blow of their dreams falling through.

Danger and security, violence and gentleness, evil spirit and elegance, thugs and scholars, calmness and madness are harmonious and unified. Prison Break made Wentworth Miller get rid of the strange circle of walk-on and become the most dazzling TV star in 2005. Although he was abandoned by his first girlfriend because of his bloodline, and because a cartoon was misunderstood by people all over the world, he experienced 488 failed interviews in Hollywood, and finally he did not give up looking for himself. Wentworth, there are so many stories to tell. ...

I first met Wentworth in a TV series called Ghost Whisperer. He played the ghost of an American soldier who died in Vietnam and came all the way back to see his son for the last time. In this TV series, all his scenes are in those painful eyes, what kind of eyes are revealed! Confusion, pain, sadness, and finally happiness and satisfaction, full of tears moisten every audience. Since then, I have been full of curiosity about him. Why is his acting so good that we have never heard of it? With the launch of the TV series Prison Break, our wishes have been met.

A cynical young man

Wentworth's parents met and fell in love when they were studying at Yale University. 1On June 2nd, 972, our hero Miller III, Earl of Wentworth, landed in Oxfordshire, England. Grandma gave little Wentworth his present name. The name comes from Jane Austen's famous novel character "Colonel Wentworth". Actually, Wentworth is a surname, so Wentworth's name consists of two surnames. Wentworth means: "Wentworth" = a river in Northumberland, England, and "Worth" = here.

Little Miller was born with charming green eyes. He spent his childhood in Oxfordshire, when his father won the Roche Scholarship and continued to study law in Oxford. After his father finished his studies, his family moved back to new york. Wentworth recalled that he was instilled with an idea from an early age. If you want to engage in a job, you must stick to it and never give up halfway. Every day before going out to school, his father would say a word' accumulation' to him. "Every exam, every question and answer with the teacher, and every conversation with the teacher will affect your final grade and be beneficial to your future study and life. All the nuances you can't perceive will be the cornerstone of your great success. "

It is this attitude towards life and his first stage experience that seems to determine his future career direction and become an actor. And his father played a very big role unconsciously. Miller recalled: "My first performance was in kindergarten. We're going to play dinosaur pantomime, and I'll play Tyrannosaurus Rex. At that time, we all needed to make our own clothes. Most children use various colors of paper to make dinosaur headdresses to wear on their heads, while my father made a huge faucet out of other materials in a whimsical way. On the day of the performance, when I walked onto the stage wearing that thing, everyone was shocked ... the scene was very sensational. " Throughout school, he participated in various stage performances as long as his parents allowed him.

When he entered Middlewood High School in Brooklyn, for the first time in his life, his mind was greatly hurt. In the sixth grade, Wentworth decided to describe his family history in a homework assignment. His girlfriend didn't know that Wentworth was a hybrid (African-American, Jamaican, British, German, French, Dutch, Syrian and Lebanese), but when she learned this, she even said to Wentworth, "Go back to your plantation, nigger!" This is the first and last time that he felt that he was greatly hurt because of his family lineage.

Then they moved to weekley and Wentworth and went to Quark Valley Middle School. After graduating from Quark Valley High School, Wentworth entered Princeton University. He himself said, "I grew up in an environment where traditional education is paramount. Everyone thinks that I should take a life route that they think is reasonable. "

Wentworth was particularly worried that his classmates and roommates would not accept him before registering for school. He doesn't know how to explain his lineage. Does he have to explain everything to new friends every time he meets them? At this time, his parents gave him a very good suggestion. You can fill your dormitory with our family photos, so that when your friends come to your dormitory to see these photos, they will immediately understand everything, and you don't have to explain it deliberately.

In fact, Wentworth was very extreme because of discrimination and injury, and he did not agree with his origin. From Middlewood to Princeton, his bad state is accompanied by a bad reputation and the nickname "smelly". "I used to have a bad attitude, but now I'm a good boy," Wentworth recalled. This bad attitude caused him a lot of trouble when he was studying at Princeton from 65438 to 0994. Later, he was exposed after the success of human stain. The following is a report in the famous magazine The New Yorker: "He published a cartoon in Princeton Daily satirizing Professor Cornell West, an African-American professor who was poached by Harvard University. This cartoon depicts a white student imagining Professor West's first class. The professor said,' I am most qualified to talk about the topic of today's class, which is the sense of rhythm-why don't you have it, and how to master the rhythm.' This cartoon also describes Mr. West as' newly bought', which is a student's evaluation of a professor. "

In fact, Wentworth just said it casually, but the result was misunderstood by readers as malicious racial discrimination. Anyone who doesn't know Wentworth's background thinks that this cartoon is mocking the black professor as a new slave bought by Harvard. Later, this incident caused a great uproar, and many people wrote letters to protest. Finally, this incident was published in Time magazine, and Wentworth became a sensational controversial figure. In the whole incident, go never used his identity to justify his actions, but chose silence. Wentworth thinks, "If others don't understand my intention, I don't need to bother to explain. For most people, I'm just the name they saw in the newspaper. They don't know me, and most of them treat me as a white man. "

Many years later, when Wentworth saw the script of "The Stain of Human Nature", he felt that he was very suitable for this role, but he was also a little worried about whether he would only play the role of black people after playing this role. But I finally went to the interview. Wentworth told Debbie Aquila, the director in charge of the interview, about her life and mentioned the scandal in Princeton. Venter's sincerity touched Deb Venter's initial success. In the second interview, Wen Zheng left a deep impression on the director, but before getting the role, Wen Zheng was asked to provide proof of his life experience. Winter recalled that when he stood in front of the copier and copied his family's photo albums, he looked at the faces of his ancestors and imagined everything they had experienced. For a moment, he didn't know whether such efforts were worth it. Fortunately, got finally got the role, and he hugged everyone present. After leaving, he called his mother with gratitude and reported the good news.

After the film was finished, Winter wrote a letter of apology to Kornel West, but there was no reply. Coincidentally, the actor who played Coleman's mother in The Stain of Human Nature was a friend of Professor West, so when Professor West appeared at the premiere of The Stain of Human Nature in new york, the professor gave Winter a hug and they finally settled their differences.

After this incident, Wentworth devoted himself to his studies and joined the school's male choir "tigertones", so he no longer set foot in such sensitive events. Wentworth played time like this. "This year, we toured all over the country. In summer, we went to Europe. We earn lunch money by performing in the street. This is the best way for you to observe and understand the world. "

In his last year at Princeton University, Wentworth decided to write a paper on English literature, which is about how to know and feel himself in the age when white men are dominant. This paper has far-reaching significance, including Wentworth's personal experience and sentiment for many years, and even influenced his future career, making him understand how to be an excellent actor with black blood in the Hollywood world.

Hollywood dream

1995 Wentworth, who graduated from English literature, is facing employment problems. "Princeton is a very conservative university. One third of the graduates will stay in school to continue their studies, and then one third will go to other universities or places like Wall Street. Being an actor is really the biggest adventure in my life. " He abandoned all his depression and moved from new york to Los Angeles just to enter the film and television industry. His plan is to become an executive producer, hiding behind the scenes and earning a steady income. At this time, he felt that being an actor was too risky, and he was sure to eat and starve.

But Los Angeles is not so easy to mix, and he has never adapted to the cultural environment here. At first, no crew was willing to recruit him, so life has been in a state of looking for a job. "My first year here was a coolie, sending faxes or sorting out various documents, changing light bulbs and helping the boss feed the fish. It is said that a young man usually does these jobs when he first arrives in Hollywood. If there is a fire in the building on weekends, they will only call me a newcomer to deal with it. " At this stage, he has been trying to find his own position.

"I go to the office every weekend because there is no air conditioning where I live, and Los Angeles is a stove. I wandered around the conference room, looking for food in the company kitchen and watching films issued by various production companies. One day I suddenly realized that I had been fantasizing about' If … I would …', but there was no if, so I decided to quit this life. "

"It's a bit scary. I rushed into the boss's office and said,' You know, I want to do this. I want to be an actor. She said,' Yes, I have just been hired as a director by a TV company. I think you can follow me as my assistant. The salary of this job is 40 thousand dollars a year, which is an opportunity to make a fortune, far exceeding my minimum requirements. "

"I have been thinking about what I want to do most and what I don't want to do. Every young person after graduation will face such a problem. Finally, I realized that if I accepted this job and did it well, I would live a comfortable life, but in fact, I would always regret not becoming an actor. But if I become an excellent actor, I will never regret not accepting the job as an assistant. "

"So I have to refuse the boss's kindness. She said,' You are ruining your future, and you will regret it.' But my attitude is firm. Even if I live a poor life from now on, I still need to act, just as important as I need air. "

He used to work in a bookstore. "The income is at the lowest level. I stand behind the counter with a tie and badge every day ... I measure myself. If you wait every day and want to have a rest every day, you won't have time to put your photos and resumes in an envelope and send them to every agent in every agency. You can't be an actor or even get a ticket. " At the worst time of Wentworth's life, he stared at all his possessions every day, thinking about what to pawn today to pay the rent.

After that, Wentworth attended an actor training class and studied for two or three years until 2002. "There is no need to receive formal training. Some actors will tell you that you must give up yourself when performing. But for me, acting is a process of self-discovery. When performing, you show all the self that you are usually unwilling to express or suppressed by the environment. I think the actor course is to make a middle-class young man abandon the inherent thinking and action mode of the middle class to the maximum extent, because we have been told what is appropriate and what is not appropriate all our lives. In my opinion, everyone needs indulgence, so why not use this indulgence to make money? "

He only played two bit roles in two TV series, 1998 and 1999, with a little income, and then no income at all. Then he had to go back to his original place to be a small clerk. "I'm glad she didn't say to me,' What's wrong? "I told you you would regret it, didn't I?" Since then, I have been writing contracts for big actors hired by some big production companies. More often, I just sit in a chair. I even want to study online and get a law degree. That time was completely wasted by me. "

In 2000, he appeared in some small TV programs and participated in a movie. 200 1 He didn't perform, except for a short film "Room 302". It seems that he still can't find his place in Hollywood. "Every day I am selected or eliminated in various interviews. This is the real Hollywood. "

Then "The Stain of Human Nature" brought him a turn for the better, but in the end, Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman were so excellent that Wentworth's performance was eclipsed. In the end, Wentworth was only one step away from success.

From 2003 to the end of 2004, he was unemployed again. During this period, he began to think about my affairs again and occasionally did some theater work.

A change in attitude towards life

From 2003 to 2004, Wentworth learned the most important lesson in his life, which changed his outlook on life. "I was told that" The Stain of Human Nature "gave me the opportunity to become an actor, and at the same time, this film also opened several doors for me. But when I walked through these doors, I found that I was competing with a group of male stars who often appeared on the cover of magazines. Hollywood is a playground for fame and fortune. The latest trend is that when your movie is released, you must hold a big party to celebrate, invite celebrities from all walks of life to attend, and even take care of the pizza delivery person for the crew. At the same time, we should also accept more interviews and shooting invitations from magazines. This is definitely an incredible and frustrating experience, but in the end you find that you have to follow the rules of the game for yourself. "

So he followed the rules of the game, accepted the invitation of many famous magazines, appeared on the cover, confided his heart, and shot large films for famous men's fashion magazines, such as L 'UOMO, Vogue, Abercrombie and Fitch.

The change of his attitude is also reflected in his interview. "I recently realized that the trick of an interview is not to think of yourself as an interviewer, and not to be careful not to make people dissatisfied." An interview is like attending a family dinner invited by a stranger. Never treat yourself as a guest, lest you knock over the glass and stain the carpet. You should think of yourself as a host and treat the interviewers who stand in front of you and measure your performance. "

"I realized that the difference between Anthony Hopkins and most actors is not the choice of roles. When an actor reads a script, he will first have a very specific role image in his mind, and there will be a concept of how to dress, how to walk, how to eat and talk, and so on. But most actors have doubts about their role concepts, so they often ask,' Is this right?' Do you like this? Does this work? This suspicion led them to lose the election in the end. And Anthony Hopkins, when he decides his own concept, will carry it out in a very certain way, no doubt, as if this role should be born like this. This change in attitude has made me more confident and comfortable in future interviews. "

He also observed and analyzed the operation mode of Hollywood, a complex system, and came to the following conclusion: "In this industry, it is easy to become a young Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks. People know how to deal with it. When they see you, they will say,' Ah, the young version of Tom Hanks.' . The old one is very successful, and this young one should do better. But when he realized that there was nothing special about the man in front of him, he immediately changed his face and said,' Now you can go out. It's no use just looking at your face. Come back when you can create something new. "