Ezra Miller

Ezra Matthew Miller (born September 30, 1992) is an American actor.

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 (née Koch), 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; their mother is of Dutch and German descent.

Miller 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, stuttering.

They have sung with the Metropolitan Opera, and performed in the American premiere of Philip Glass's opera White Raven.

Miller attended Rockland Country Day School and The Hudson School, dropping out at age 16 after the release of the film Afterschool.

Miller attended Bard College for six months before dropping out to pursue their acting career full time.

Their feature film debut was in Afterschool (2008), which they followed by starring in the dramas We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012).

Miller's career in film began in 2008 with Antonio Campos' Afterschool, in the role of a teenager at a boarding school who accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, and is then asked to put together a memorial video.

The following year, they appeared in City Island with Andy García, Julianna Margulies, and Steven Strait.

In 2010, Miller portrayed the lead of Beware the Gonzo and had a supporting role in Every Day, both of which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

In 2010, Miller dated Zoë Kravitz, both of whom star in Beware the Gonzo.

They next appeared in the BBC Films drama We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), alongside Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, which was adapted and directed by Lynne Ramsay from American author Lionel Shriver's 2003 novel of the same name.

In television, Miller played Damien on the Showtime hit comedy series Californication.

They then appeared on Royal Pains as Tucker Bryant for two seasons.

Miller has been credited with singing, drumming and percussion on musical recordings by the band Sons of an Illustrious Father as early as 2011.

The band is a trio that features Lilah Larson (vocals, guitar, bass and drums), Josh Aubin (bass, keyboards, guitar, vocals), and Miller.

In the 2012 film adaptation of the novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Miller played Patrick, alongside Logan Lerman and Emma Watson.

Miller came out as queer in 2012, but later said they avoided the use of the label "queer".

After a supporting role in the comedy Trainwreck (2015), Miller played Credence Barebone in the Fantastic Beasts fantasy films Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022).

Miller played Credence Barebone in the 2016 film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a spin-off of the Harry Potter film series.

Miller later became engaged to Erin, a woman they began dating in 2016, but called it off after a spiritual adviser told them that she was a "parasite".

Miller played the Flash in the DC Extended Universe, including but not limited to in the films Justice League (2017) and The Flash (2023).

Miller's off-screen life has been marred with multiple controversies and legal issues.

Since 2022, they have been accused of committing assault, burglary, disorderly conduct, harassment, and grooming of minors, resulting in multiple widely publicized arrests, citations, and restraining orders.

They reprised the role in the film's sequel, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, which was released in November 2018, and in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, released in April 2022.

Miller portrays Barry Allen as the Flash in Warner Bros.' DC adaptations, first appearing in cameos in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad, and continuing the role as one of the leads in Justice League.

They played the character in the standalone film The Flash, which was released in 2023.

Miller attended Middle East Film and Comic Con in 2018, representing their character in the DC Comics franchise film Justice League.

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."

In 2019, the band released a cover of "Don't Cha" by the Pussycat Dolls and Miller appeared in its music video.

In 2020, they had a recurring role on the miniseries The Stand.

In 2020, they reprised the role of the Flash for a cameo appearance in the Arrowverse crossover event, Crisis on Infinite Earths.

In December 2020, Miller portrayed Trashcan Man in the Paramount+ television miniseries The Stand, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.

Miller uses they/them pronouns, which GQ wrote in 2020 was "a pointed refusal to be gendered".

They previously used all pronouns interchangeably;, Miller uses they/them, it, and zir pronouns.