Everything about Ben Miller totally explained
Ben Miller, (born
1966) is a British
comedian,
director and
actor.
Biography
Miller was born in
London,
England and grew up in
Nantwich,
Cheshire. His father, Michael Miller, was a lecturer in
American Literature at
Birmingham City University, and his mother Marion taught English at
South Cheshire College. He has two younger sisters, Leah and Bronwen.
He was educated at
Malbank School, his local comprehensive school in
Nantwich, and then at
St Catharine's College, Cambridge where he studied
Natural Sciences. He remained at Cambridge to study for a
PhD in
quantum physics, entitled: "novel quantum effects in
quasi-zero dimensional mesoscopic electron systems."
Career
While studying for his thesis, a friend offered Miller £10 a day to ferry around some judges for an arts festival. He consequently met his collaboration comedy partner, fellow Cambridge student
Alexander Armstrong, at
TBA Sketch Comedy Group, a comedy club which ran at the
Gate Theatre Studio,
Notting Hill throughout the
1990s. They performed their first full-length show at the
Edinburgh Fringe in
1994 and returned in
1996, when they were nominated for the
Perrier Comedy Award.
Their success resulted in the commissioning of the television series
Armstrong and Miller, which ran for four series in total throughout the late
1990s and early
2000s; one on the
Paramount Comedy Channel and three on
Channel Four. The duo had their own radio show with the same name on
BBC Radio 4 in 1998, which featured many of the sketches and characters from their TV series, and a second show
Children's Hour with Armstrong and Miller later in the same year. After a six year break, the show was recommissioned for
Hattrick Productions as
The Armstrong and Miller Show, and ran on
BBC1 in Autumn
2007. In
2003 he played the role of 'Bough', sidekick to
Rowan Atkinson's titular character in the film
Johnny English. In 2004 he co-starred in
The Prince and Me. In
2004 and
2005, he starred in two consecutive series of the
BBC television series
The Worst Week of My Life, alongside
Sarah Alexander,
He has recently begun working behind the camera and
directed the
television pilot -- which subsequently became the first episode -- of
Steve Coogan's 2006 British
BBC TV Comedy series
Saxondale.
In 2004, Miller guest-starred alongside
Martin Clunes in the second series of
Doc Martin as a park ranger with an obsessive imaginary friend.
In
2008 he appeared on three
ITV1 series, as
television producer Jonathan Pope in
Tony Jordan's series
Moving Wallpaper, reprising his role as Lester in
Primeval, and also starred in
Thank God You're Here on
12 January 2008.
On the 3rd episode of Lily Allen & Friends, Miller said that Armstrong & Miller is coming back Spring 2009 for a new series.
Personal life
While at Cambridge, he acted with and dated
Rachel Weisz. He is now married to
Belinda Stewart-Wilson (who is set to guest star alongside Miller in Series 3 of
Primeval). A talented musician, Miller plays the
guitar and
drums,. At St. Catharine's, he played in a band called the Dear Johns, with Andy Edwards and Eoin Patterson. They released one 7" single, entiled "Shame".
Awards
Miller was awarded a Judge's Commendation for his portrayal of
Hamlet at the
1990 National Student Drama Festival.
Ben co-wrote
MindGym, winner of the first
BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Award for comedy in 1998, with Tim Wright and
Adam Gee.
Selected Filmography
Further Information
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