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"I've wanted to be an actress for as long as I can remember, and I can say I was almost born in the theatre. My mum went into labour while she was watching the Nut-Cracker Suite in New York - apparently I was kicking like mad"
Miller was born in New York City on December 28, 1981 and moved to England with her family as a child, where she attended the Heathfield school in Ascot, Berkshire and later studied for a year at the Lee Strasberg Institute with luminaries such as Will Lee and Koni Summer in New York City.
Her father, Edward Miller, is an American banker born in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Josephine Miller, who is South African, ran Lee Strasberg's acting academy in London. Her parents parted when she was six years old.
Prior to her professional acting career, Miller worked as a photographic model. She signed with Tandy Anderson, and modeled for Coca-Cola, Italian Vogue, Prada and the 2003 Pirelli Calendar.
Miller signed a two-year contract with Pepe Jeans London; the jeans ad campaign first appeared in magazines March 2006. Miller posed for Vanity Fair magazine's 2006 "Hollywood Issue" topless and smoking a cigarette.
She appeared on the December 2004 and the February 2006 cover of British Vogue, and will appear on the September 2007 cover of U.S. Vogue
In her early career, Miller performed in several New York City plays including The Striker, Independence, and Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella's Cigarettes & Chocolate. Miller had a recurring role in Simon West's television action drama series Keen Eddie (2003-4).
In 2005, Miller made her West End debut as Celia in Shakespeare's As You Like It alongside Helen McCrory, Dominic West and Reece Shearsmith. She played the role of Rosalind for one performance, when McCrory, the actress playing the lead, fell ill.
In 2001 she made her film debut with South Kensington, with Rupert Everett and Elle Macpherson. Her next projects, in 2003, were High Speed and The Ride (aka Joy-Rider). In 2004 Miller had supporting roles in the remake of the 1966 movie Alfie starring Jude Law. In the same year, she made Layer Cake. The next year she played the female lead opposite Heath Ledger in the period drama, Casanova. In 2006 she starred in Factory Girl, a film about 1960s socialite and Andy Warhol's muse Edie Sedgwick that opened December 29, 2006. Although the film has been deemed controversial, her performance has received acclaim. Works opposite James Franco in the horror comedy Camille In 2007 she stars in Interview directed by Steve Buscemi. Also stars opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro in the fantasy epic Stardust. Appears in the film version of writer Michael Chabon's novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, also starring Peter Sarsgaard. Works on The Edge of Love, a biopic of Dylan Thomas in which she plays his wife Caitlin; Hippie Hippie Shake a new Working Title production directed by Beeban Kidron; and Importance, a contemporary re-working of Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance.