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've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually played saxophone with a jazz band in middle school. So, any knowledge I had of jazz music was from playing alto-sax back then.
For me, the greatest kind of success that I've had on a particular project or in exploring a role does come through collaboration. I wouldn't want to do a movie where everything I do the director just says, "Good job" and I'm under directed.
I think my character rallies people together to go out and drink.
For me, as far as friendship goes, I think you truly get out of it, what you put into it.
If I don't have a schedule in front of me, I do enjoy sleeping. It's important for your body!
I feel like my body doesn't judge the hours, you know? It doesn't care if it's daytime or nighttime.
We were doing this close-up of my character on a cell phone, and the director's just like "Cut! Can we get somebody else's hand in there?" I do bite my fingernails, and you don't want to see a fat, bitten thumbnail on a 30-foot movie screen, so I get somebody with really nice, sexy hands and put 'em in there.
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 was not a band geek, per say. But me and my two older sisters played instruments, so I would come home and my sister Dana would be playing the clarinet or playing the piano, and I would play the saxophone, my other sister would be singing, my mom would be singing. I was not afraid to be musical. That was not something that I thought was uncool.
I think when you're looking for scripts or for characters around your own age, a lot of the times they don't have the kind of responsibility that is usually seen in parts that are older for you.
I think I might do an animated film next. I'm serious.
I grew up doing some landscaping and painting houses and that kind of thing.
I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.
First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song 'Mama Says.