T.J. Miller

Todd Joseph Miller (born June 4, 1981) is an American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter.

In 2003, Miller 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, Miller 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.

After college, Miller 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.

He appeared as Marmaduke Brooker in Carpoolers, which ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 2007–2008.

In 2008, he made his acting debut in Cloverfield, and from 2010 to 2014, he voiced Tuffnut Thorston in the first two How to Train Your Dragon films.

In 2008, he was named one of Variety's 10 Comics To Watch.

In 2009, he played Cessna Jim in The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard and the dim-witted grindcore musician Rory in Mike Judge's comedy Extract.

On December 13, 2010, October 28, 2011, and June 14, 2012, he performed stand-up on Conan.

In 2010, he co-starred in She's Out of My League as Stainer, played Brian the Concierge in Get Him to the Greek and appeared in a supporting role in the film Unstoppable.

He voiced the character Tuffnut Thorston 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.

He played the supporting character of Ranger Jones in the live-action/animated Yogi Bear 2010 film.

Unlike his character on the cartoon show, he is "dumb-but-not-in-a-funny-way", according to the Buffalo News.

He was cast in the part after two auditions; as a joke, he sent Warner Bros. an improvised video audition with an actual bear, though he had already been offered the part before they received it.

In 2011, Miller released a comedy special, No Real Reason, and a comedy album, Mash Up Audiofile in 2012.

On November 15, 2011, his stand-up special No Real Reason premiered on Comedy Central.

In 2011, he hosted a special called Mash Up, which was picked up in 2012 for a full season by Comedy Central.

He starred in the Fox TV series The Goodwin Games as Jimmy Goodwin.

In 2011, he appeared in the film Our Idiot Brother.

In 2012, he voiced Robbie Valentino on the Disney channel cartoon Gravity Falls.

He voiced Gorburger, a giant blue monster talk show host, on The Gorburger Show, which originally aired on Funny or Die and YouTube for 2 seasons in 2012–13, then on Comedy Central for a 3rd season in 2017 before being canceled.

In Cloverfield, Miller'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.

He had a cameo as administrative personnel for Rolling Stone in the 2012 film Rock of Ages.

From 2014 to 2017, he starred as Erlich Bachman in the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley and also played Marvel Comics character Weasel in the 2016 superhero comedy film Deadpool and its 2018 sequel.

Miller also has had roles in films such as Unstoppable, Yogi Bear, She's Out of My League, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Big Hero 6, Hell and Back, Office Christmas Party, The Emoji Movie, and Ready Player One.

Miller was born in Denver, Colorado, the son of Leslie Miller, a clinical psychologist, and Kent Miller, an attorney from Chanute, Kansas.

He attended Graland Country Day School and graduated from Denver's East High School, where he participated in drama productions.

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.

In 2014, he appeared in Transformers: Age of Extinction.

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.

Miller starred in the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley, which has been met with widespread critical acclaim and he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2015.

He starred in the 2016 film Search Party alongside Adam Pally.

On June 17, 2017, HBO premiered his hour-long stand-up special, T.J. Miller: Meticulously Ridiculous, which was filmed in Miller's native Denver at the end of his 2016 Meticulously Ridiculous Tour.

In October 2017, Miller began his Touring In Perpetuity Tour, a self described "One Man Philosophy Circus".

Miller appeared frequently as a member of the "round table" on Chelsea Lately.

In May 2017, Miller and HBO jointly announced that Miller would not be returning for the 5th season of Silicon Valley.

As a commercial actor, he 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.