TJ Miller Bio | Wiki
TJ Miller (Full name: Todd Joseph Miller) is an American actor and comedian. In 2008, he made his acting debut in Cloverfield. From 2010 to 2014, TJ voiced Tuffnut Thorston in the first two How to Train Your Dragon films.
From 2014 to 2017, he starred as Erlich Bachman in the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley and also played Marvel Comics character Weasel in 2016’s Deadpool and its 2018 sequel. He also has had roles in films such as Yogi Bear, She’s Out of My League, Big Hero 6, Hell and Back, Office Christmas Party, The Emoji Movie, Ready Player One, and Transformers: Age of Extinction.
TJ Miller Age
Tj was born on June 4, 1981, in Denver, Colorado, United States. He is 41 years old.
TJ Miller Height
He is a man of tall stature and stands at a height of 6 ft 3 in (Approx. 1.88 m).
TJ Miller Family
He was born in Denver, Colorado, to his parents Leslie Miller and Kent Miller. TJ’s mother is a clinical psychologist and his father is an attorney from Chanute, Kansas. His father, who is Christian, is of English, Scottish, German and Swedish ancestry, whereas his mother, who is Ashkenazi Jewish, is of German-Jewish, Austrian-Jewish, and Russian-Jewish ancestry. He has a sibling named Morgan.
TJ Miller Wife
TJ married his beautiful wife named Kate Gorney. She is an actress and installation artist. The couple became engaged in 2014 and celebrated their wedding on September 6, 2015, at the Denver Botanic Gardens. Kate changed her last name to Miller.
TJ Miller Education
He attended Graland Country Day School and graduated from Denver’s East High School, where he participated in drama productions. In 2003, TJ graduated from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. with a B.A. in psychology with a concentration in situation theory and social influence.
At GWU, he was a member of the comedy group receSs and the Lambda chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. While in college, TJ studied the circus arts at Frichess Theatre Urbain in Paris and attended the British American Drama Academy in London, where he studied Shakespeare for a summer.
TJ Miller Ryan Reynolds
TJ starred as the bartender Weasel in the first two “Deadpool” movies, where he often sparred onscreen with co-star Ryan Reynolds. But TJ said on a recent episode of “The Adam Carolla Show” that he doesn’t think Reynolds likes him and therefore the two won’t be working together again.
TJ Miller Silicon Valley
He starred in the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley, which has been met with widespread critical acclaim. TJ won the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2015. In May 2017, he and HBO jointly announced that he would not be returning for the 5th season of Silicon Valley.
TJ Miller Deadpool
He played Weasel in Deadpool and Deadpool 2. Deadpool is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Distributed by 20th Century Fox, it is a spin-off in the X-Men film series and the eighth installment overall. Directed by Tim Miller and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, it stars Ryan Reynolds in the title role alongside Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T. J., Gina Carano, and Brianna Hildebrand.
TJ Miller Comedy | Stand Up | Tour
After college, TJ moved to Chicago and began to perform improvisation and stand-up comedy, performing with many local troupes. He toured with The Second City for two years. In 2008, he was named one of Variety’s 10 Comics To Watch. TJ released a comedy special, No Real Reason in 2011, and a comedy album, Mash Up Audiofile in 2012.
In 2015, he was part of Funny or Die’s Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival, a touring show which included Amy Schumer, Aziz Ansari, and other comics. On June 17, 2017, HBO premiered his hour-long stand-up special, T.J.: Meticulously Ridiculous, which was filmed in TJ’s native Denver at the end of his 2016 Meticulously Ridiculous Tour. In October 2017, TJ began his “Touring In Perpetuity Tour”, a self-described “One Man Philosophy Circus.
TJ Miller Brain Surgery
TJ described learning about an undiagnosed cerebral arteriovenous malformation on his right frontal lobe on the Pete Holmes podcast You Made It Weird on October 28, 2011. He stated that he became more philosophical, narrated his behaviors, and was unable to sleep while filming Yogi Bear in New Zealand in 2010. His brain surgery was successful, though there was a 10 percent risk of fatality.
TJ Miller Gravity Falls | Voice
In 2012, he voiced Robbie Valentino on the Disney channel cartoon Gravity Falls. As a commercial actor, TJ voiced a talking ball of mucus in commercials for Mucinex and starred as Greg the Genie in a promotional campaign for Slim Jim meat snacks. He voiced Gorburger, a giant blue monster talk show host, on The Gorburger Show.
TJ voiced the character ‘Tuffnut’ in the Oscar-nominated animated films How to Train Your Dragon and How to Train Your Dragon 2. He also played Dan in Gulliver’s Travels, released in December 2010. In November 2014, he was the voice of Fred in the superhero CGI film Big Hero 6. Moreover, TJ also portrayed the voice of the main protagonist Gene, a meh emoji with abnormal expressions, in the animated The Emoji Movie
TJ Miller Cloverfield
In Cloverfield, TJ’s film debut, he appeared onscreen for only a few minutes, but his voice was heard in almost every scene as the character who videotaped most of the events depicted
TJ Miller Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. TJ’s estimated net worth is $11 million.
What Happened To TJ Miller
The actor was accused of sexual assault in 2017 and arrested in 2018 for allegedly making a fake bomb threat on an Amtrak train. Prosecutors eventually dismissed the case. TJ was also accused in 2018 of bullying his “Silicon Valley” co-star Alice Wetterlund on set, which he denied.