Wentworth Miller
Golden Globe-nominated British-born American actor
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- Wentworth (blonde or brunette?): Um, I am into brunettes. For a long time, I’ve had a crush on Angie Harmon, who used to be on Law & Order. She’s a beautiful barracuda. (Laughs)
- Wentworth: Fortunately, face-to-face interactions have been very positive. By and large I hear, ‘I never miss an episode’, which is the highest compliment. I did go online to read some chat room comments about the show, which I wouldn’t recommend. It’s like reading someone’s diary.
- Wentworth (how they put the tattoo on for Prison Break): It's a very lengthy process. It's the most ambitious pro tattoo ever attempted for TV or film. It takes two people four or five hours to apply. They strip moisture off the skin by applying alcohol so it adheres properly. Then a layer of glue is applied before they fix the decals with waterproof sealant on top so it stays. It's made up of a series of details that fit together like pieces of a puzzle. There are about 24 pieces to cover my entire upper body and arms. Fortunately, we only have to do it once per episode. If you don't tamper with it, it will deteriorate slightly but will last for up to two weeks. It's a bit like wearing fly-paper and it stains so you have to scrub it off at the end of the day with solvents
- Wentworth (reading a comment from a chat room): Someone posted a comment that read something like, “I just found out Wentworth is British. I guess that explains the crap American accent”. (Laughs) That's both untrue and unflattering. Both of my parents are American but they lived in England for a couple of years and I was born there, so I have dual citizenship. I was raised in Brooklyn, New York, but I have a special place in my heart for the UK.
- Wentworth (his acting role models): I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on The Human Stain. If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career
- Wentworth (classifying himself as "a fairly boring person"): I go to the library, I do a lot of reading, I eat at Subway. When I need some boxers I go to the Gap.
- The stylist on the Prison Break set uses Oster Turbo 111 Clippers ($179.99) to shave Wentworth and his co-stars' hair.
- Wentworth is 6'1" (186. cm) tall.
- Before he became an actor, Wentworth was a lowly production assistant for several tv movies
- Wentworth graduated from Quaker Valley Senior High School in Leetsdale, Pennsylvania in 1990.
- It takes two makeup artists up to four and a half hours to apply Wentworth's 25 part decal tattoo in Prison Break. They only apply the bits that are required for the episode and it can stay on for up to a week. It also takes up to two hours to scrub it off!
- Wentworth made Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "It" List.
- Wentworth is a graduate from Princeton, where he graduated with a B.A. in English Literature.
- Wentworth is named after his father, Wentworth Miller II.
- In the movie Stealth, Wentworth was the voice of EDI.
- Wentworth was born in Oxfordshire, England, but raised in Brooklyn, New York.
- Wentworth worked at Borders for two years before getting his break in acting.
- Wentworth enjoys the following quote from Toni Morrison's Beloved: "Definitions belong to the definers and not the defined."
- Wentworth was named "TV's Hottest New Face" in Insider Magazine, the week of October 24th-30th, 2005.
- Wentworth has campaigned against drug-use appeared in anti-drug ads
- Wentworth's popularity went up 614% on The Lycos 50, since Prison Break premiered on FOX.
- When Wentworth walks in public with the body art from Prison Break, "...people look at (him) with, well, not newfound respect but perhaps suspicion."
- Wentworth looks around the prison for inspiration: "The prison helps a great deal in keeping me grounded in the character."
- Wentworth recently claimed in a magazine that he did not open the cat shelter allegedly opened in some rumours, on the grounds that he is deathly allergic to animals