Wentworth announced he is homosexual in June 2013, in a letter posted on the GLAAD website where he expressed his intentions not to attend the Saint Petersburg International Film Festival because of the Russian law against propaganda of homosexuality.
During his acceptance speech at the Human Rights Campaign Dinner in 2013, Miller said he had tried to commit suicide several times in his teenage years. He also discussed his choice to remain in the closet after rising to fame on “Prison Break”.
When, in 2016, a meme about his size made the rounds, Miller responded to it in a Facebook post, explaining that when the picture was taken in 2010, he was a suicidal depressive eating himself to death.
The mental health charity Active Minds officially recognized Wentworth as their ambassador in October 2016, and Wentworth delivered the main speech at their National Conference in November of 2016.
Wentworth Miller Net Worth?
Wentworth Miller is the English born American model who has done acts, writing, modeling and has an estimated worth of $4 million. Wentworth Miller’s big break came by being type cast as Michael Scofield on the Fox television series “Prison Break” that was aired from 2005- 2009, but came back for a fifth season in 2017.
Miller wrote the 2013 psychological thriller “Stoker” (under the pseudonym Ted Foulke), the 2016 horror film “The Disappointments Room,” and he’s an executive producer for the fifth season of “Prison Break.”
Early Life
Wentworth Miller was born on June 2nd 1972 in Oxfordshire, England. His American parents, Roxann a special education teacher and Wentworth a teacher and lawyer were in England. At the time Miller was born as his father was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford.
His father has African American, German, Jamaican, and English nationality, while his mother has Rusyn, French, Lebanese, Swedish, Syrian and Dutch roots. When Miller was still very young, the family moved to Park Slope in Brooklyn; he went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn, and Leets dale, Pennsylvania’s Quaker Valley High School, graduating in 1990.
In high school Wentworth got straight A’s, and was in the newspaper staff and the AV club. He attended college at Princeton University, working as a cartoonist for the Princeton newspaper as well as singing for the Tigertones, Princeton’s a cappella group.
Miller graduated with an A.B. in English in 1995 and left for Los Angeles where she took a job at a company that produced television films. Wentworth’s two younger sisters are sisters Leigh and Gillian.
Career
Miller appeared on television for the first time in an episode of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” in 1998 and acted in his first film, which is Romeo and Juliet: The Sea Captain’s Daughter, made for video release, in 2000.
He made three guest appearances on the “Party of Five” sequel series, “Time of Your Life” in the show’s second season during the 1999–2000 television season and appeared in a 2000 episode of the WB drama, “Popular”.