Miles Teller

Miles Teller
Teller at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International promoting Fantastic Four
Born	Miles Alexander Teller (1987-02-20) February 20, 1987 (age 30) Downingtown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education	Lecanto High School
Alma mater	Tisch School of Arts
Occupation	Actor, musician
Years active	2004–present

Miles Alexander Teller (born February 20, 1987) is an American actor. Born in Downingtown, Pennsylvania and an alumnus of NYU's Tisch School of 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 critical acclaim for his leading performance as Sutter Keely in The Spectacular Now (2013), for which he was awarded the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Dramatic Acting and his role as Andrew Neiman in Whiplash, for which he was nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Actor, the Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture, and the BAFTA Rising Star Award.

Teller was born in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, the son of Merry, a real estate agent, and Michael Teller, a nuclear power plant engineer. His father is from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and his mother is from Carneys Point, New Jersey. He has two older sisters, Erin and Dana. His paternal grandfather was of Russian Jewish descent, while his other ancestry is English, Irish, Polish, and French.

He lived in several places as a child, because of his father's career, spending time in Citrus County, Florida, after moving from Cape May, New Jersey. He also lived in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Teller attended Lecanto High School, Florida, where he played the saxophone, was a drummer for a church youth group band, and was president of the drama club. He can also play piano and guitar and was on the baseball team, hoping to turn professional. Aside from high school, Teller worked as a server at a restaurant called Crackers. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where he studied method acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.