T'Nia Miller (born 2 March 1985) is an English actress. She is best known for her television roles such as Witless (2016–2018), Years and Years (2019), Free Rein (2019), The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), Foundation (2021), and The Fall of the House of Usher (2023).
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Early life
T'Nia Miller was born in London on 2 March 1985. She has Jamaican ancestry and grew up in East London. She graduated from the Guildford School of Acting in 2004.
Career
In 2007, Miller made her acting debut in three episodes of the Channel 4 drama series Dubplate Drama. She then made appearances in The Bill and Holby City, before her first starring role as JJ in the 2012 feature film Stud Life. After making guest appearances in British television series such as Babylon, Banana, Cucumber, Doctor Who, Guilt and Born to Kill, Miller scored her first starring role as DC Wilton in the BBC Three thriller series Witless, a role she played from 2016 to 2018.
In June 2017, Miller appeared in an episode of the BBC One soap opera Doctors as Bev Lomax. In 2019, Miller was cast in the BBC drama miniseries Years and Years as Celeste Bisme-Lyons. Years and Years was created by Russell T Davies, whom Miller had worked with on the Channel 4 programmes Banana and Cucumber. In 2019, she appeared in the Netflix series Free Rein as Claire Wright. In 2020, Miller appeared in the Netflix series Sex Education as Maxine Tarrington, and later in the year, she starred in the Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor as Hannah Grose. In 2021, Miller starred in the AMC series La Fortuna as Susan McLean and in the Apple TV+ series Foundation as Zephyr Halima Ifa.
Personal life
Miller is a lesbian. She is divorced and has two children.
In May 2019, Miller said of her trademark shaved head:
I used to hide behind my hair all the time. I had this long, relaxed hair, and I was thinking, "What am I trying to say? What is that about?" It sort of was a lightbulb moment, and I said, "You know what? I'm gonna cut it off. I [will] start from ground zero and grow an afro." I was sitting in the barber shop, and he cut my hair and I fell in love with my skull... and I never turned back. And actually, it's afforded me to be able to play a diverse range of roles—it had totally the opposite effect that I feared. Where I thought I'd be very limited to what I'd be seen for, it's done the opposite. So this was born out of an integrity of loving the self and not having to hide, and loving the fact that I'm an African.