Jonny Lee Miller
Jonathan " Jonny " Lee Miller ( * November 15, 1972 in Kingston upon Thames, London ) is a British actor.
Life
After Miller had acted in several plays at the Tiffin Boy's Grammar School, he dropped out of school at age 17, to devote himself entirely to acting can. With the films Hackers - In the power of the FBI and Danny Boyle's Trainspotting - Neue Helden brought him international attention. He was also seen in some BBC programs and different plays.
From 2008 to 2009 he played in the American television series Eli Stone in the title role of a lawyer in San Francisco who suddenly hears music and has visions that no one else sees, but the steer his own life both professionally and personally incalculable in new directions.
The end of 2009 stood next to Miller Sienna Miller in Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie adaptation by August Strindberg's Miss Julie in New York on Broadway on stage.
In Danny Boyle 's production of Frankenstein at the Royal National Theatre in London, he played the main characters Victor Frankenstein or Frankenstein's monster in the evening, alternating with Benedict Cumberbatch. Both were hailed by the critics and jointly received the Evening Standard Theatre Award for the year 2011 and the Laurence Olivier Award.
2012 Miller starred in Tim Burton's vampire tale Dark Shadows alongside Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer in the movie theaters. In addition, he was standing next to Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton in Neil Jordan's fantasy drama thriller Byzantium front of the camera, which was presented in September 2012 at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the television series Elementary, a CBS remake of the Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, which launched in the U.S. in late September 2012, he plays alongside Lucy Liu starring.
Miller is a grandson of the film actor Bernard Lee, who played the role of " M" in the first eleven James Bond films. His father Alan Miller was a stage actor in the 1950s and 1960s.
From 1996 to 1999 Miller was married to Angelina Jolie. In July 2008, Miller married actress Michele Hicks, and in December 2008 their son was born.
Others
Quotes
- New York and LA are really great cities that you have to see, but I would want to live in neither of them. I think that New York is extremely claustrophobic and dirty. LA is really a nice city, but there is no rush and no life, no street life. Everyone drives by car from A to B. Why do I have moved ( from Los Angeles to London)? My relationship ( with Angelina Jolie ) did not go well, and I missed England. The little things, such as odors, but also important, such as the British sense of humor.