After he accidentally films the death of twins at his boarding school, he is tasked with making a video tribute for the girls. May 18, 2008: Antonio Campos’ drama Afterschool premieres at Cannes, in which Miller plays Robert, an internet-addicted loner who fetishizes cell-phone footage. “It was very empowering.” Miller went on to join the children’s chorus at the Metropolitan Opera for two seasons. “That was a very confusing and trippy creation tale, and I was a kid who brought up the sun and rotated the Earth,” they told Collider later.

Summer 2001: Miller stars in the Robert Wilson and Philip Glass opera White Raven. They were born with a speech impediment, so they turned to opera to focus on “control and manipulation of the breath,” Miller told the Daily Beast in 2017. The family had a home in Chelsea for their forays into the city, as one does.

Miller of Workman Publishing their mother Marta, a dancer and their two older sisters. Miller went from indie darling to getting Harry Potter paychecks to facing burglary charges in quite a flash, so here’s a timeline to understand how we got here.ġ992–2008: Ezra Miller grew up in New Jersey with their father, publisher Robert S.

(As the movie The Flash gets a trailer and 2023 release date seemingly without alarm, Miller agreed to a plea deal for unlawful trespass in January 2023 involving one-year probation.) With the new DCEU beginning to take shape, DC Studios chairperson and CEO James Gunn called The Flash “one of the greatest superhero movies ever made” and continues to support the embattled star. “I want to apologize to everyone that I have alarmed and upset with my past behavior,” they said in a statement on August 16, 2022. Instead, the 2020s ushered in a different kind of Ezra Miller, who would be caught on video physically attacking a fan at an Iceland bar, rumored to be leading a cult, and accused of grooming an 18-year-old Sioux activist. Photo: Laurent Vu/SIPA/Shutterstock/Laurent Vu/SIPA/Shutterstockįrom beloved Perks of Being a Wallflower beginnings to a rising star in Hollywood, Ezra Miller was supposed to be a queer blockbuster-movie star, a flower-child eccentric who lives in Vermont and plays The Flash, and an activist who stood up for victims of gender-based violence and Indigenous communities.

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