Who is Ezra Miller? What you should know about the embattled star of ‘The Flash’

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.”

To correct a severe speech impediment, Miller took up singing, which had the side effect of helping them land a “grade-school residency” with New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Before hitting double digits, age-wise, they switched from opera to acting, and at age 16 Miller dropped out of high school to pursue acting full-time. Around that time, they landed a gig on a premium-cable show.

Here is a timeline of key moments in Miller’s career and personal life.

‘Cakey! The Cake From Outer Space’ (2006)

Miller’s first credited role, per IMDb, is as a bully who cheers on a friend as said friend beats up on lead character Duncan, a dorky kid whose