


He attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn, and graduated from Princeton University in 1995 with an BA in English after completing a 116-page long senior thesis, titled "Doubling and the Identity Construct in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ' The Yellow Wallpaper,' Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre", under the supervision of Gina Dent. Miller's family moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn, when he was a year old. His father is of African-American, Jamaican, German, and English ancestry his mother is of Rusyn, Swedish, French, Dutch, Syrian, and Lebanese ancestry. Miller said in 2003 that his father is black and his mother is white. 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. His mother, Roxann (née Palm), is a special education teacher, and his father, Wentworth E. Miller was born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, to American parents. 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. He made his screenwriting debut with the 2013 thriller film Stoker. 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 – Television Series Drama in 2005. Wentworth Earl Miller III (born June 2, 1972) is an American-British actor and screenwriter.
