Wentworth Earl Miller was born on 2 June 1972, in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. His father, of Afro-American, Jamaican, German, Jewish and Cherokee ancestry was studying at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar; his mother is of Lebanese/Syrian, Swedish, Dutch and French descent. Wentworth therefore has dual nationality, being an English-born American actor, film producer, voice actor, and model, whose career began in the late 1990s, and who is probably best known for his role in the TV series “Prison Break” between 2005-09.
How rich is Wentworth Miller? According to authoritative sources, Wentworth’s net worth is estimated to be $4 million, accumulated mostly through his successful career as an actor, which so far has spanned around 20 years.
Wentworth Miller Net Worth $4 Million
Wentworth Miller went to school in Brokklyn, New York, then Quaker High School in Penssylvania, before graduating with a degree in English Literature from Princeton University in 1994. He began his acting career in 1995 when he moved to Los Angeles, however, the road to stardom was far from smooth, but eventually Miller secured his first role in 1998, in an episode of the TV series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon and Alyson Hannigan. Still, Miller’s first starring role wasn’t until 2002, when he appeared as an introverted David Scott in the ABC’s series “Dinotopia”. A year later, Miller starred in Robert Benton’s “The Human Stain” alongside Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman, followed by minor roles Miller in “Underworld” with Kate Beckinsale, “Law and Order: Special Victim Unit”, and Paul W. S. Anderson’s “Resident Evil: Afterlife” alongside Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter and Kim Coates. However, all contributed steadily to Miller’s net worth.
Wentworth even appeared in Mariah Carey’s music videos, namely “It’s Like That” and “We Belong Together”, but it wasn’t until his role as Michael Scofield in the television serial drama “Prison Break” that he found the limelight. The show began airing in 2005 and until its last, fourth season released in 2009, proved to be a remarkable success with the audience, being nominated for several awards including Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series Drama, and in 2006 won the People’s Choice Award for Favorite New TV Drama. The popularity of the series resulted in the creation of a low-budget spin-off entitled “Prison Break: Proof of Innocence”, a television movie “Prison Break: The Final Break”, as well as a video game entitled “Prison Break: The Conspiracy”. Needless to say, Wentworth Miller, who played the main character in the series, received a lot of attention and increased his net worth from the revenues accordingly.
In addition to his acting career, Wentworth Miller is known as a screenwriter as well. Miller wrote the script for a psychological thriller influenced by Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” and Alfred Hitchcock’s “Shadow of a Doubt”, which was entitled “Stoker”. The movie, in which the main characters are portrayed by Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman and Matthew Goode, was released in 2013, and has several pending awards such as Fangoria Chainsaw Awards and London Film Critics’ Circle Awards. Miller also scripted the movies “The Loft” and “The Disappointments Room”, and is currently working on writing a screenplay for David Wroblewski’s novel “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle”.
To date, Wentworth Miller has been involved in more than a dozen films on the big screen, and around 20 TV programs. He has been nominated for a number of awards, mostly for his appearance in “Prison Break”, including Teen Choice Awards, Golden Globes Awards, and Black Reel Awards.
In his personal life, Wentworth Miller is openly gay, a fact which he says left him troubled during his teenage years, and apparently lead to attempted suicide more than once.
