Miles Alexander Teller (born February 20, 1987) is an American actor best known for playing pilot Lt. Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw in Top Gun: Maverick and jazz drummer Andrew Neiman in Whiplash.
Teller made his feature film debut in 2010 and rose to fame for his leading roles opposite Shailene Woodley in the coming-of-age drama The Spectacular Now in 2013 and the Divergent film trilogy in 2014–2016. His breakthrough came with his performance in the 2014 Academy Award-winning drama Whiplash, which brought him widespread recognition. After Whiplash, he established himself as a leading man, appearing in several love comedies, the superhero movie Fantastic Four (2015), and the biographical movies War Dogs and Bleed for This (2016), among others.
Teller played the lead role in Top Gun: Maverick in 2022. Teller previously worked with Joseph Kosinski on the movie Only the Brave, who also directed this movie (2017). For the Netflix movie Spiderhead, the two once again collaborated (2022). He has been on television in the Paramount+ miniseries The Offer about The Godfather (2022) and the Amazon crime drama Too Old to Die Young (2019).
Miles Teller Height
Miles Teller is a 33-year-old man with a height of 6 feet (183.0 cm).
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Miles Teller’s Net Worth
An American actor named Miles Teller has a 10 million dollar fortune. He is well-known for his roles in movies including “Whiplash,” “Divergent,” and “The Spectacular Now.”
Miles Teller Early Life
Miles Teller was born in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, on February 20, 1987, and grew up there as well as in Florida and New Jersey. Merry, Teller’s mother, is a realtor, and Michael, his father, is a nuclear power plant engineer. Erin and Dana, his older sisters, are also women. Miles participated in a rock band at Lecanto High School and played alto saxophone.
He was also the president of the theatrical club and a drummer for a church youth group band. He played piano and guitar on the baseball team and wanted to turn baseball into a vocation. In his senior year of high school, Teller worked as a waitress at the neighborhood Crackers restaurant. He played the lead role in the “Footloose” production at his school and would go on to star in the 2011 version.
Teller was a passenger in a vehicle that lost control at 80 mph back in 2007. Teller had several wounds due to the eight times the car flipped. In 2009, Teller graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. At the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, he later pursued method acting studies.
Miles Teller Career
Following his graduation from Tisch, he started acting in several short films, and in 2009, he made a guest appearance on the TV program “The Unusuals.” In the 2010 motion picture “Rabbit Hole,” he won an award for outstanding performance and received worldwide attention. Nicole Kidman explicitly chose Teller for the part.
He has continued to work steadily on feature picture projects ever since. He recently appeared in “Footloose,” “Project X,” “21 and Over,” “Get a Job,” and “The Spectacular Now” in both co-starring and leading roles. For their performances in “The Spectacular Now,” he and co-star Shailene Woodley received the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Dramatic Acting.
In the “Divergent” series, in which he co-starred with Shailene Woodley, he is also well-recognized. The 2015 and 2016 films “Insurgent” and “Allegiant” featured him in all three parts. In “That Awkward Moment,” “Two Night Stand,” and “War Dogs,” Teller also made an appearance. The Oscar-winning film “Whiplash,” in which Miles Teller featured as a young drummer attempting valiantly to impress his abusive jazz teacher (J. K. Simmons), was nominated for multiple prizes in 2014.
Only $8,000 was paid to him for his appearance in “Whiplash.” Teller later played Mister Fantastic in the “Fantastic Four” remake movie. In the 2016 films “War Dogs” and “Bleed for This,” Teller portrayed Vinny Paz, a boxing biography and arms dealer, David Packouz. Teller appeared in drama movies with real stories as the lead, such as “Only the Brave” and “Thank You for Your Service” in 2017. In the crime drama web series “Too Old to Die Young” in 2018, Teller played Martin Jones in the series.
He wrapped up production on the “Top Gun: Maverick” sequel in 2020, in which he plays Bradley Bradshaw, the late pilot Goose’s son. The movie’s release date has been set for 2021.
According to rumors, Teller declined the lead role in the film “La La Land,” directed by the same person who made “Whiplash” because he wanted more money than the $4 million offered.
Miles Teller’s Personal Life: Who Is His Life Partner?
On the Hawaiian island of Maui, in September 2019, Miles wed his longtime partner, model Keleigh Sperry. They were united in marriage at Sacred Hearts Mission Catholic Church, and their celebration was held at the Ritz Carlton just a short distance away.
