Ezra Miller is an American actor best known for portraying The Flash in the DCEU and being one of the protagonists of the “Fantastic Beasts” film series.
So let’s find out them and their life and career thus far.
- Ezra Matthew Miller is their full name
- They were born on September 30, 1992
- Miller is an American actor.
- Miller’s feature film debut was in Afterschool (2008)
- They followed that film by starring as the title character in the drama “We Need to Talk About Kevin” (2011) and in the film adaptation of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)”
- In 2015, Miller co-starred in the drama “The Stanford Prison Experiment” and the comedy “Trainwreck”
- Before playing Credence Barebone / Aurelius Dumbledore in the “Fantastic Beasts” films
- In 2020, they also had a recurring role on the miniseries “The Stand” as Donald Merwin “Trashcan Man” Elbert.
- Miller also portrays Barry Allen’s Flash in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU)
- Beginning with a brief cameo roles in the 2016 films “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Suicide Squad”
- Before appearing as one of the leads in “Justice League (2017)” and its director’s cut “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” (2021)
- They made a guest appearances in television in “Crisis on Infinite Earths” (2020) and the first season of “Peacemaker” (2022)
- Their own standalone film is scheduled to release in 2023
- In the film Miller also portrays another version of Allen’s Flash from an alternate timeline
- Ezra Matthew Miller was born in Wyckoff, New Jersey, on September 30, 1992
- They have two older sisters named Saiya and Caitlin
- Their mother, Marta Miller, is a modern dancer
- Their father, Robert S. Miller, was senior vice president and managing director of Hyperion Books, and later became a publisher at Workman Publishing
- Miller’s father is Jewish
- While their mother is a Christian of Dutch and German descent
- Miller self-identifies as Jewish and “spiritual”
- At the age of six, they started to train as an opera singer in order to overcome a speech impediment
- They have sung with the Metropolitan Opera
- And performed in the American premiere of Philip Glass’s opera White Raven
- They attended Rockland Country Day School and The Hudson School
- They dropped out at age 16 after the release of the film Afterschool
- In 2010, Miller dated Zoë Kravitz while they were filming Beware the Gonzo
- Miller came out as queer in 2012
- But said in 2020 that they do not use the label “queer”
- They had also said in 2018, “Queer just means no, I don’t do that. I don’t identify as a man. I don’t identify as a woman. I barely identify as a human”
- Miller uses they/them pronouns, which GQ wrote in 2020 was “a pointed refusal to be gendered”
- They previously used all pronouns interchangeably
- But as of 2022 uses they/them, it, or ze pronouns
- Having expressed an interest in “kissing boys” at a young age
- Miller said, “The way I would choose to identify myself wouldn’t be gay. I’ve been attracted mostly to ‘shes’ but I’ve been with many people and I’m open to love whatever it can be”
- Miller also commented on having “a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders. I am very much in love with no one in particular”
- In 2018, Miller showed support for the #MeToo movement
- They also revealed a personal experience of that kind with a Hollywood producer and a director, both of whom were left unnamed
- Later that year, they announced that they were in a polyamorous relationship with multiple people
- Including their bandmates in the rock band Sons of an Illustrious Father
- On January 27, 2022, Miller posted a video on Instagram that seemed to threaten members of the Ku Klux Klan operating in Beulaville, North Carolina
- In response, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported no knowledge of recent Klan activity in Beulaville
- On June 28, 2011, while shooting “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, Miller was a passenger in a vehicle that was pulled over in Pittsburgh for a broken brake light
- Police discovered 20 grams of marijuana in their possession
- They initially were charged with drug possession, but the charge was later dropped by a judge
- They instead faced a penalty of $600 for two citations of disorderly conduct
- They later commented, “I don’t feel like there’s any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It’s a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation”
- On April 6, 2020, a video surfaced in a since-deleted tweet that appeared to show Miller choking a woman and throwing her to the ground
- The video was confirmed by Variety to have taken place at Prikið Kaffihús, a bar in Reykjavik that Miller frequents when in the city
- A bar employee identified the person in the video as Miller and said they were escorted off the premises by staff after the incident
- On March 28, 2022, Miller was arrested in Hawaiʻi following an alleged physical confrontation with patrons at a karaoke bar
- A couple subsequently filed for a restraining order based on an incident alleged to have occurred the same day
- But then dropped their request for the order on April 12
- On April 19, 2022, Miller was again arrested in Hawaiʻi for allegedly throwing a chair which hit a 26-year-old woman and left a half-inch cut on her forehead
- This was because Miller was being told to leave during a private get-together