Cambridge graduate BEN MILLER (Bough) is best known as half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller, partnering with Xander Armstrong. The pair first appeared as regulars on British television’s ITV’s Saturday Live, and their eponymously named sketch show ran for four series, the first on the Paramount Comedy Channel and the last three on Channel Four. On television, Miller has also played leading roles in the ITV comedy/drama Passion Killers, the ITV thriller The Blind Date and the Scottish BAFTA-winning comedy/drama series Coming Soon.
Miller began his career with the British theatrical troupe Cambridge Footlights, appearing in the 1990 Tour Show Absurd Persons Plural and directing the 1991 Tour Show Cambridge Underground. He has made many appearances at the Edinburgh Festival; in 1992, his one-man show, Gone With Noakes (about the life of Blue Peter presenter John Noakes) won a Perrier Pick of the Fringe, and in 1996 he and Alexander Armstrong were Perrier Award nominees at the Festival for their sketch show The Quality Shag.
More recently, Miller has concentrated on film roles. Making his film debut as debauched aristocrat Lord Dixon in Jake Scott’s Plunkett and Macleane, Miller has since gone on to play Thai-boxing male model Johnny Two-Dogs in There’s Only One Jimmy Grimble, an obstructive hotel manager in Jez Butterworth’s Birthday Girl and the anally retentive computer hacker Colin in John Duigan’s The Parole Officer. Most recently, he appeared with Michael Caine in Conor McPherson’s The Actors and with Greta Scacchi in Guy Jenkins’ Jeffrey Archer biopic, The Truth.
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