Death in paradise cast ben miller

English comedian and actor (born 1966)

This article is about the English comedian. For other people named Ben Miller, see Ben Miller (disambiguation).

Bennet Evan Miller (born 24 February 1966) is an English comedian, actor and author. He rose to fame as one half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller. He is also known for his roles as Angus Jeremy Bough in the Johnny English film series, DI Richard Poole in the BBC crime drama series Death in Paradise and James Lester in the ITV sci-fi series Primeval.

Early life

Bennet Evan Miller was born in London on 24 February 1966, the son of Welsh mother Marion and English father Michael Miller. He grew up in Nantwich, Cheshire. His father taught American literature at the City of Birmingham Polytechnic. His maternal grandfather was a Lithuanian immigrant. His paternal grandfather was a tailor in the East End of London, while his paternal great-grandmother taught English at South Cheshire College. He has two younger sisters. He is a distant cousin of Abraham Lincoln.

Miller was educated at Malbank School and Sixth Form College in Nantwich before studying Natural Sciences at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. As an undergraduate, he participated in theatre with his then-girlfriend, actress Rachel Weisz. He remained at Cambridge to read for a PhD in solid state physics, with his proposed thesis, Novel quantum effects in low-temperature quasi-zero-dimensionalmesoscopic electron systems. He abandoned his thesis to pursue a career in comedy.^[7

I remember we were filming on one side of the island and you could see the volcano on Montserrat erupting – absolutely amazing!— Ben Miller

How did you become involved with Death In Paradise?

I was on holiday in Ibiza, having a lovely time, writing a book and looking at the stars every night and generally not having a care in the world. Then I got sent the script for Death in Paradise. I couldn't get back to England in time for the auditions so my girlfriend filmed me on her camera and I sent it off via email. A few weeks later I met with the director and producer. So I actually have Jess, my partner, to thank for the job.

How would you describe Richard Poole?

He's a bit of a mixed bag really. I think he's sort of been stalled slightly in his career. I don't think he's really been allowed to reach the rank that he should have, because I don't think he's great with people. However, he is remarkably good at a lot of what he does and other things he's just peculiarly inept at.

He's funny, he's got a good sense of humour but not necessarily witty. He's a loner, you feel that he sort of has trouble forming relationships, whether it's at work or in his private life.

How does he get on with the different members of his team?

With Camille I think he's alternately impressed and utterly infuriated by. She never really does things the way Richard believes they are supposed to be done, she's always cutting corners and making leaps of intuition and I think he finds that a bit frustrating. Richard loves nothing better than filling in a form and making sure that all the boxes are ticked.

I think he finds Dwayne equally baffling, because Dwayne has, to all outward appearances, a very laid-back approach to police work and he's got a very individual dress sense and a very unfettered approach to solving crimes.

I think Dwayne is als

After learning that his mother might have been murdered, he decides to stay and find out what really happened. But when he does get to the bottom of the mystery, will he stick around?

Commissioner Selwyn Patterson also finds himself on the back foot after being told that his job is set to be dissolved.

Speaking to RadioTimes.com and other press about the staggering news, Warrington said: "He's shocked by it, it's not what he expected. It comes as a bolt from the blue.

"It means that he has to deal with a situation that he hadn't expected at all and it's going to mean a big change in his life, in his status. It's monumental.

"He has to work through a crisis, really, and he resolves it in one way or another."

Warrington echoed those comments in an interview with Radio Times magazine: "It's very distressing. His life is being turned upside down, but he has to deal with the reality, it's beyond his control."

Ginny Holder, who plays Darlene Curtis, also told RadioTimes.com that "it's monumental for all the other characters as well".

"It affects everybody equally," she added.

If Don Warrington is set to exit this season, could the show survive without him?

Tobi Bakare, who returned as Sergeant JP Hooper for the season debut, seems to think so.

"Don is an integral part of the show, but I always say this show has this very unique way of surviving," he said.

"Even though there are so many deaths on the island, the show itself always survives. It just knows how to stay. They've tapped into a formula that they can constantly work around.

"And it's exciting to see sometimes when you're backed into a corner; it's exciting to see what you come up with, to bring up something new and fresh, so I think it can definitely survive."

But Bakare did go on to say that Warrington would be "a big miss" if he was to leave.

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