Ben Miller
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Miller at the 2008 BAFTA Television Awards
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Bennet Evan Miller 24 February 1966 London, England |
| Education | Natural Sciences |
| Alma mater | St Catharine's College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Comedian, director, actor |
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| Children | 3 |
Bennet Evan "Ben" Miller (born 24 February 1966) is an English comedian, actor and director. He is best known as one half of comedy double act Armstrong and Miller, with Alexander Armstrong. Miller and Armstrong wrote and starred in the Channel 4 sketch show Armstrong and Miller, as well as the BBC sketch show The Armstrong & Miller Show.
Miller was born in London, England and grew up in Nantwich, Cheshire. His paternal grandfather was a Lithuanian Jewish tailor who emigrated to the UK and lived in London's East End. He anglicised the family surname. Ben's father Michael Miller was a lecturer in American Literature at the City of Birmingham Polytechnic; and his mother Marion was from Wales. She taught English at South Cheshire College. He has two younger sisters, Leah and Bronwen.
Miller was educated at Malbank School and Sixth Form College, his local comprehensive school in Nantwich, Cheshire. He studied Natural Sciences at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. As an undergraduate, he participated in theatre with Rachel Weisz, and also dated her. He remained at Cambridge to study for a PhD in solid state physics, with his thesis titled Novel quantum effects in low-temperature quasi-zero-dimensional mesoscopic electron systems.
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