LOS ANGELES — At 29, Ezra Miller has become one of the movie industry’s most sought-after actors, including an upcoming starring role in the 2023 Marvel feature “The Flash.” But Miller also recently was arrested for low-level criminal behavior in Hawaii and accused of grooming and abusing an 18-year-old from North Dakota.
So who is Ezra Miller? A look back at some defining roles, interviews and news reports sheds some light.
The actor, who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, was born Ezra Matthew Miller in 1992, the youngest of three kids, in what they once told Interview were the “dirty depths” of New Jersey. Miller described having a “very wonderful, magical childhood” in a place that had a high concentration of wealth and a low concentration of “human happiness.”