Miles Teller

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Film Actor · Born Feb 20, 1987 · United States Of America · Male

Miles Alexander Teller (born February 20, 1987) is an American actor. Born in Downingtown, Pennsylvania and an alumnus of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, he appeared in several short films and television movies before making his feature film debut in Rabbit Hole (2010). He had supporting roles in Footloose (2011) and Project X (2012), before garnering good notices for his leading performances as Sutter Keely in The Spectacular Now (2013) and as Andrew Neiman in Whiplash (2014). He has since starred in Fantastic Four (2015) as Mister Fantastic, War Dogs (2016) opposite Jonah Hill, and boxing biopic Bleed for This (2016). 2Early life Teller was born in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, of parents Merry and Mike. He has two older sisters, Erin and Dana. His paternal grandfather was of Russian Jewish descent, and his ancestry also includes English and Irish. The family moved to Citrus County, Florida, when Teller was 12. He also lived in Pennsylvania and Delaware. At Lecanto High School, he played the alto saxophone in a rock band, was a drummer for a church-youth group band, and was president of the drama clu