Ben Miller

Bennet Evan Miller, born February 24, 1966, in London, is an English comedian, actor, and author who studied natural sciences at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, before abandoning a physics PhD to pursue comedy. He gained prominence as part of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller alongside Alexander Armstrong, first performing together at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1994 and earning a Perrier Comedy Award nomination in 1996; their television series Armstrong and Miller ran from 1997 to 2001. His film work includes Johnny English in 2003 and Johnny English Strikes Again in 2018, reprising his role as Bough, and The Prince and Me in 2004. On television he starred in The Worst Week of My Life, Primeval, and notably as Detective Inspector Richard Poole in Death in Paradise from 2011 to 2014, later appearing in Bridgerton and leading the series Professor T. He has also authored children's books and popular science works including It's Not Rocket Science and The Aliens Are Coming!