Brent Miller

Info

Role

Actor

Date of birth

05/23/1975

Place of birth

Toledo, Ohio, USA

Brent Miller

Biography

Brent Miller serves as President of Production and Development for Norman Lear's ACT III Productions. Miller has been working with ACT III for just over a decade. In 2019, he and Lear teamed with Jimmy Kimmel, Will Ferrell and Justin Theroux to executive produce Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons'' for ABC. This groundbreaking special assembled an all-star cast to recreate classic episodes of these iconic comedies and ultimately won a Primetime Emmy. Miller also serves as an Executive Producer on One Day At A Time, a Latinx re-imagining of the classic TV series. The critically acclaimed sitcom, starring Justina Machado and Rita Moreno, ran for three seasons on Netflix and has a fourth season premiering on PopTV in 2020. In addition to scripted content, he also Executive Produced two seasons of America Divided for EPIX. This provocative docu-series series explored critical social issues including criminal justice reform, housing inequality, and heroin abuse. On the feature side, Miller produced the documentary Norman Lear: Just Another Version Of You, earning a Primetime Emmy nomination. He, Lear and Lin-Manuel Miranda are producing a documentary for American Masters on Rita Moreno set to premiere in 2020. In 2018, Lear and Miller entered a first-look overall deal with Sony Pictures Television.