Miles Teller
Miles Teller
Miles Alexander Teller is an American actor. Born in Pennsylvania and an alumnus of the Tisch School of Arts, he appeared in several short films and television movies before making his feature film debut in Rabbit Hole. He had supporting roles in Footlooseand Project X, before garnering critical acclaim for his leading performance as Sutter Keely in The Spectacular Now, for which he was awarded the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Dramatic Acting and his role as Andrew...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth20 February 1987
CityDownington, PA
CountryUnited States of America
I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I don't do any of that. But I do geek out to music.
I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'
My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school.
I used to have a big crush on Andie MacDowell.
I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they'd have to drop it on purpose.
I was in good shape from Divergent. Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash told me, ‘Stop Working Out! Don’t go outside!’ He wanted me pale and doughy. This is the first movie where I shut myself off from the world. It was, by far, the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.
I feel like my body doesn't judge the hours, you know? It doesn't care if it's daytime or nighttime.
Naked acrobatics are on my resume
So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.
I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A's and a 4.0 and all that.
Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the rednecks - would leave class and mow a path out to a field, and we'd drive out there. Dude, every party I went to was lit by a bonfire. Acoustic guitar.
For me, I still have feelings for all of my ex-girlfriends. In different parts of my life, I would miss that person. There's something that drew me to that person, and I shared something with them.
When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me.