Ben Miller Bio, Wiki, Age, Wife, Death In Paradise, Bredgerton, and Net Worth

Ben Miller Bio | Wiki

Ben Miller is an English actor and comedian. He became known as one half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller. Miller is also known for playing the lead role of DI Richard Poole in the first two series of the BBC crime drama Death in Paradise. He also portrayed James Lester in the ITV science-fiction series Primeval.

He moved to London to pursue a career in comedy. Miller was introduced to fellow Cambridge graduate Alexander Armstrong in 1992, at the TBA Sketch Comedy Group, a comedy club that ran at the Gate Theatre Studio, Notting Hill throughout the 1990s. They performed their first full-length show together at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1994 and returned in 1996 when they were nominated for the Perrier Comedy Award.

Ben Miller Age

Ben was born on February 24, 1966, in London, United Kingdom. He is 56 years old.

Ben Miller Height

He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 9 in (Approx. 1.75 m).

Ben Miller Family

He was born in London, England, and raised in Nantwich, Cheshire by his parents Marion Miller and Michael Miller. Ben’s father was an immigrant and served as a lecturer in American literature at the City of Birmingham Polytechnic and his mother was from Wales. He has two younger sisters, Leah and Bronwen.

Ben Miller Wife

Ben was first married to Belinda Stewart-Wilson from 2004 to 2011. The two have a son born in 2006. Later, in 2013, he married production executive Jessica Parker. Together, the couple has a son, born in late 2011, and a daughter, born in June 2015. Jessica is the daughter of British musician Alan Parker.

Ben Miller Education

He attended Malbank School and Sixth Form College, his local comprehensive school in Nantwich, Cheshire. Ben read Natural Sciences at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He remained at Cambridge to read for a Ph.D. in solid state physics, with his proposed thesis titled Novel quantum effects in low-temperature quasi-zero-dimensional mesoscopic electron systems.

Ben abandoned the completion of his thesis to pursue a career in comedy. His interest in comedy began when a friend asked him to help ferry around the judges of the National Student Drama Festival, which was being held that year in Cambridge.

Ben Miller Death In Paradise

From 2011 until series three premiere in 2014, Ben starred in the BBC-French co-produced series Death in Paradise as Detective Inspector (DI) Richard Poole. The third series of Death in Paradise was commissioned in early 2014. On 9 April 2013, it was announced that Ben would be departing the series, to be replaced by actor Kris Marshall.

Filming started in March 2013, and Ben left in May after completion of the first episode, in which his character was murdered. He reprised his role for a cameo appearance in a dream sequence during the tenth series in 2021.

Ben Miller Bridgerton

In 2020, Ben played Lord Featherington in Bridgerton. In 2021, with the cast of Bridgerton, he received a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

Ben Miller Professor T

Since 2021, Ben portrays Jasper Tempest (Professor T.) in Professor T, a British crime drama television series starring Ben, Emma Naomi, Barney White, and Frances de la Tour. It is an adaptation of the Belgian TV series of the same name. It began broadcasting on Britbox on 3 June 2021, ITV on 18 July 2021, and PBS in the United States on 11 July 2021.

Ben Miller Rob Brydon

On February 20, 2009, Ben appeared with Rob Brydon in an episode of QI Series 6. 9. The two have often been mistaken for each other, and as a joke, they dressed in similar shirts for the episode and shared an on-screen kiss.