Miller began appearing in films and television when he was eight years old. His first film role was in
Halloween III: Season of the Witch. He would go on to star in such films as ''
River's Edge, Near Dark, Class of 1999, and Teen Witch. Miller also made guest appearances on several popular television shows, including 21 Jump Street, The Wonder Years, The Greatest American Hero, Highway to Heaven (for which he received a Young Artist Award in 1985), and Growing Pains''. Miller appeared in several plays, and was involved in dance from a very early age. He starred in the Los Angeles Ballet Company's production of
The Nutcracker for three consecutive seasons beginning at age seven, and later appeared as a dancer in Janet Jackson's
Grammy Award-winning
Rhythm Nation 1814 video. Miller attended
Yale University and
Antioch University, and studied creative writing at the
University of California, Los Angeles. In 1997, he published a pseudo-autobiographical novel called
The Mao Game about a fifteen-year-old child star attempting to cope with
heroin addiction, memories of past sexual abuse, and the impending death of his grandmother, who has been diagnosed with cancer. In 1999,
The Mao Game was adapted into a film, written and directed by Miller, and co-produced by
Whoopi Goldberg. The film starred Miller,
Kirstie Alley, and
Piper Laurie, and featured Miller's mother,
Susan Bernard, in a brief, uncredited cameo. It toured the festival circuit, and garnered mixed reviews from critics. In December 2003, he completed his MFA in creative writing at the
University of Iowa. He was awarded the Capote Fellowship, and was also chosen for the Houghton-Mifflin Fellowship Award. He has also written articles for ''
Harper's Bazaar, Playboy, and Esquire. In 2007, Miller appeared as Jinky in The Wizard of Gore. He has written a second novel, titled Ash''. Miller collaborated with
M. A. Fortin to write the
DreamWorks TV and
Fox production
Howl. Miller and Fortin then co-wrote the short film
Dawn (2014), which was directed by actress
Rose McGowan and premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival. The two also co-wrote the screenplay and executive produced the 2015 horror comedy film
The Final Girls, directed by
Todd Strauss-Schulson and starring
Taissa Farmiga and
Malin Åkerman. Miller and Fortin wrote the pilot for the
USA Network drama series
Queen of the South. Miller also serves as an executive producer for the series, which began airing on June 23, 2016. ==Filmography==