Joshua John Miller

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Joshua John Miller
Born Joshua John Miller
(1974-12-26) December 26, 1974 (age 49)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation
  • Actor
  • screenwriter
  • film director
  • novelist
Years active 1982–present
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Joshua John Miller (born December 26, 1974) is an American actor, screenwriter, novelist, and director.[1] A Los Angeles native, Miller co-writes with partner M.A. Fortin.

Personal life

Joshua Miller was born on December 26, 1974 in Los Angeles, California, the son of actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jason Miller, and actress and Playboy pin-up Susan Bernard. Miller's half-brother is actor Jason Patric, and his maternal grandfather was photographer Bruno Bernard, also known as "Bernard of Hollywood". His father was of Irish, as well as German, descent, and his mother is Jewish. Miller is openly gay and has a partner as of 2013.[2]

Career

Miller completed his MFA in creative writing at The Iowa Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa, where he was awarded the Capote Fellowship and chosen for The Houghton-Mifflin Fellowship Award. Meet The Author, Miller's upcoming second novel, began as his MFA thesis at the Writer's Workshop. Miller's first novel The Mao Game was published to much acclaim when he was 21 years old and an undergraduate at Yale. Miller has also written articles for Harper's Bazaar, Playboy, and Esquire.

Miller started appearing in films and television when he was eight years old. His first film role was in Halloween III: Season of the Witch. He would go on to star in such films as River's Edge, Near Dark, Class of 1999, and Teen Witch. Miller also made guest appearances on several popular television shows, including 21 Jump Street, The Wonder Years, The Greatest American Hero, Highway to Heaven (for which he received a Young Artist Award in 1985), and Growing Pains (hence a popular misconception that he is a relative of Jeremy Miller, who portrayed Ben Seaver on that series; they are not related).

Miller appeared in several plays, and was involved in dance from a very early age. He starred in the Los Angeles Ballet Company's production of The Nutcracker for three consecutive seasons beginning at age seven, and later appeared as a dancer in Janet Jackson's Grammy Award-winning Rhythm Nation 1814 video.

Miller attended Yale and Antioch University and studied creative writing at UCLA. In 1997, he published a pseudo-autobiographical novel called The Mao Game about a fifteen-year-old child star attempting to cope with heroin addiction, memories of past sexual abuse, and the impending death of his grandmother, who has been diagnosed with cancer. In December 2003, he completed his MFA in creative writing at the University of Iowa. He was awarded the Capote Fellowship, and was also chosen for the Houghton-Mifflin Fellowship Award. He has written articles for Harper's Bazaar and Playboy.

In 1999, The Mao Game was adapted into a film, written and directed by Miller, and co-produced by Whoopi Goldberg. The film starred Miller, Kirstie Alley, and Piper Laurie, and featured Miller's mother, Susan Bernard, in a brief, uncredited cameo. The movie toured the festival circuit, and garnered mixed reviews from critics.

He appears as Jinky in The Wizard of Gore.[1] He has written a second novel, titled Ash. Miller collaborated with M.A. Fortin to write the DreamWorks TV and Fox production Howl.[3] Miller and Fortin also wrote the screenplay for the 2015 horror comedy film The Final Girls, directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson and starring Taissa Farmiga and Malin Åkerman.[4] In 2015, the USA Network ordered Miller and Fortin's pilot script, Queen of the South, to series. Miller will also produce the series, which will begin airing in January 2016.[5] Miller and Fortin also co-wrote the short film Dawn, which was directed by Rose McGowan.

Filmography

As actor

Film and television
Year Title Role Notes
1982 Halloween III: Season of the Witch Willie Challis
1982 The Greatest American Hero Jonathan TV series; episode: "Good Samaritan"
1984 Family Ties Kenneth TV series; episode: "Go Tigers"
1984 The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins François TV movie
1985 Highway to Heaven Jason Winner TV series; episode: "A Song for Jason (Parts 1 & 2)"
1986 Stoogemania Young Howard
1986 River's Edge Tim
1987 Near Dark Homer
1987 21 Jump Street Brian Sheffield TV series; episode: "In the Custody of a Clown"
1987 Growing Pains Friend #1 TV series; episode: "Not Necessarily The News"
1988 Cagney & Lacey Henry Gorvel TV series; episode: "Hello Goodbye"
1989 Rhythm Nation 1814 B.J. (Boy With Harmonica) Short film
1989 Teen Witch Richie Miller
1989 Meet the Hollowheads Joey
1990 The Wonder Years Larry Beeman TV series; episode: "Rock 'n Roll"
1990 Class of 1999 Angel
1990 The Ghost Writer Edgar Strack TV movie
1990 Death Warrant Douglas Tisdale
1991 And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird Josh Carson
1999 The Mao Game Jordan Highland
2007 The Wizard of Gore Jinky

As writer

Year Title Notes
1999 The Mao Game Novel and screenplay
2011 Howl TV series
2014 Dawn Short film
2015 The Final Girls Feature film
2016 Queen of the South TV series

As director

  • The Mao Game (1999)

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result
1986 Young Artist Awards Exceptional Performance by a Young Actor in a Television Special or Mini-Series Highway to Heaven Won
1988 Saturn Awards Best Performance by a Younger Actor Near Dark Nominated
Young Artist Awards Best Young Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama River's Edge Nominated
1989 Best Young Actor in a Cable Family Series On the Edge Nominated
1990 Best Young Actor Guest Starring in a Television Series The Wonder Years Nominated
Best Young Actor Starring in a Motion Picture Teen Witch Nominated
1991 Best Young Actor Starring in a Motion Picture Class of 1999 Nominated
1992 Saturn Awards Best Performance by a Younger Actor And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird Nominated
1993 Young Artist Awards Best Young Actor Starring in a Motion Picture And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird Nominated

References

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