15 years later, what has become of Prison Break star Wentworth Miller?

In 2005, the public discovered the character of Michael Scofield, a gifted engineer who gets himself locked up in Fox River Prison in order to get his brother Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) out. At the time, the public was charmed by the charisma of Michael’s actor, Wentworth Miller , who was 33 years old when the first season was filmed.

The success was total, including in France, where the series was broadcast on M6 with the famous theme song sung by rapper Faf Larage, younger brother of Shurik’n from IAM. The show continued for 4 seasons and ended (temporarily) in 2009 with the TV movie La Dernière Évasion.

Miller, who had gotten his start on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and ER , had finally found a series of his own, but once it was over, he struck while the iron was hot. He was immediately seen in Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), an episode of House , and a Karl Urban-led thriller, Vertigo .

Prison Break reunion in superhero series

But it is truly with the superhero series The Flash that the actor will bounce back. First simply hired to play the villain Leonard Snart aka Captain Cold opposite Barry Allen played by Grant Gustin , he returns at regular intervals in the series thanks to the public’s enthusiasm for the actor and the sense of cool that he brings to his super-villain.

Two years later, he got a series of his own with other heroes from the “Arrowverse”, called DC’s Legends of Tomorrow , in which he reunited with his Prison Break sidekick Dominic Purcell . Present intermittently from 2016 to 2021 in the show, he still plays Captain Cold.

At the same time, Miller moved to the “other side” of the camera by writing the screenplays for Park Chan-wook’s psychological thriller Stoker (2013) with Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman and then (with DJ Caruso) for the horror thriller The Forgotten Room (2016).

Prison Break Season 5

Miller’s less presence is because he left in 2017 to shoot a fifth season – many would say “one season too many” – of Prison Break. Poorly received, highly criticized, it left fans with a bitter taste, and the actor was content to appear in two episodes of New York – Special Unit and in DC’s Legends, then disappeared from the screens for a while.

He is preparing his big comeback alongside his friend Dominic Purcell in Snatchback, a series adapted from a true story about a team of secret agents tasked with freeing hostages around the world. To be continued…