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It's been a minute since we featured Jonny Lee Miller, but seeing as he has a new movie out this weekend, the crime thriller Alice, we're taking the opportunity to catch up. This talented actor is very familiar from his roles in Elementary, Trainspotting, and Eli Stone, but tends to keep his personal life off limits in interviews. Still, we've gathered 10 things you might not know about him, including some rather surprising British TV roles from early in his career.
1. Acting is very much in his blood.
Miller's grandmother was Bernard Lee, a British actor who worked extensively on stage and screen from the mid-1920s until his death in 1981. Bond fans will remember him as 007's boss, M, a role he played in the franchise's first seven movies.

2. He and Jude Law are longtime besties.
They met as teenagers at the U.K.'s National Youth Music Theatre. A few years ago, Miller shared a cute throwback snap of the pair on Instagram.

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3. He and Law once shared a London flat with another famous British actor: Ewan McGregor.
Miller later told The Guardian that their flat in London's Kentish Town neighborhood was, um, "s****y."
4. He has been an American citizen since 2015.
Miller told WENN shortly after his citizenship ceremony that his desire to become a U.S. national had been "bubbling away" for some time. "My son is an American citizen, my son was born in the States," said Miller. "So it was important to me to feel a part of my community and I went to a little ceremony and it was really very special."
5. He once appeared in an episode of classic British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.
Yes, really! Miller plays a "toy boy" picked up by Daisy (Judy Cornwell), the somewhat downtrodden sister of Dame Patricia Routledge's domineering Hyacinth Bucket.

6. But his very first acting job was in Doctor Who.
As a nine-year-old, Miller landed an uncredited walk-on part in the 1982 episode "Kinda: Part One." You can watch a clip here: Miller is the boy with a lot of hair carrying some fruit.
''I've had an agent since I was a kid and started acting at nine in BBC dramas with parts for nine-year-olds," Miller told The Herald many years later. "I left school at 17 to act full-time, although I had thought that I'd wait a couple of years and then go to drama school, but I got bit parts in series [instead]."
7. He also appeared in six episodes of BBC soap opera EastEnders but turned down a full-time contract.
Miller told The Guardian that he was wary of getting stuck in a longtime TV role. "You see people (in those shows) who are trapped," he explained. "That might be disrespectful to them, but I didn't want to be known for that kind of work. You're there for a year, that's what you are.'
8. He moonlights as a Muay Thai fighter.
According to Fightmag, Miller made his professional debut with a fight against Robert Bermudez at New York City's Broad Street Ballroom in 2019. Impressively, he won the bout with a third round knockout. You can check out footage of Miller in action below.

9. He also has experience as a director.
Miller directed three episodes of Elementary, plus the 2019 short film Not for Girls, which follows a 16-year-old girl who pursues a boxing career against her mother's wishes. You can check out a clip here.
10. And finally, he was physically sick on the first day of making the 2017 Trainspotting sequel.
During a promotional appearance on U.K. daytime show This Morning, Miller revealed that he vomited at an unfortunate moment. It happened the first time he and co-star Robert Carlyle had seen each other in 10 years.

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