Family and education

Miles Fisher is the son of Richard W. Fisher, who was formerly the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. His mother, Nancy, serves on the national board of the American Film Institute (AFI). His maternal grandfather was Representative James Collins. He was raised in Dallas, Texas, where he attended the St. Mark's School of Texas. After his family moved to Washington, D.C., he attended the St. Albans School.

Fisher graduated from Harvard University, where he was an English major. At Harvard, he was a member of the Porcellian Club, the Hasty Pudding Club and the a cappella singing group the Krokodiloes. Fisher served as the Krokodiloes tour manager, and planned events for the group in 24 countries. He was one of the two students chosen to deliver a Harvard Oration at the 2006 Harvard graduation ceremony. His undergraduate thesis, which won the LeBaron Russell Briggs prize at Harvard, was a "screenplay about a Harvard graduate who avoided the Vietnam draft by teaching in a military prep school". Fisher has described film as his passion and said that after graduation he intended to move to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry. In 2009 Fisher resided in Los Angeles, California.

He married Lucette Blodgett, daughter of late actor and writer, Michael Blodgett, on June 28, 2014. They were introduced by Willow Bay.

Acting career

1997-2008

Fisher appeared in the 1997 CBS television movie adaptation of the book True Women as "Travis", and had a starring role in the 2000 film Lone Star Struck. He received the Best Actor award at the 2001 International Teen Movie Festival (ITMF) in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, for his own short film titled: Head Shot, which was among 10,000 other entries at the festival.

In a 2001 article in Newsday titled: "Miles Fisher, 'It' Boy", columnist Liz Smith referred to Fisher as "wunderkind" and "the next Tom Cruise". Smith's comparison of Fisher to Tom Cruise led to meetings with influential managers and agents, and he signed with the talent agency Endeavor Talent Agency in 2002. Fisher appeared in the 2003 Civil War film Gods and Generals with Robert Duvall. Director Ron Maxwell picked Fisher to portray a heroic member of the First Regiment of Virginia Volunteers in the film; Duvall played Robert E. Lee.

He parodied actor Tom Cruise in the 2008 film Superhero Movie. Fisher's role in the film was popularized on the Internet on sites including Defamer, as well as on television on Entertainment Tonight and the CNN program Showbiz Tonight. The clip of Fisher was viewed on the Internet over 10 million times. A critic for The Baltimore Sun commented that Fisher's appearance in Superhero Movie was the highlight of the film, and wrote: "Actor Miles Fisher replicates Tom Cruise's 'I am the Way, the Thetan, the Light' Scientology recruiting video of last year to hilarious effect." He had a recurring role on A&E Network's television series The Cleaner, portraying a rookie police officer named Kenneth Herman.

2009-present

Fisher wrote and produced a short film called Heatshot in 2009 with Evan Nichols; the film was selected to be screened at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival. Alan Peppard of The Dallas Morning News reported in March 2009 that Fisher had been cast in the pilot of a television show set in 1983 in Southern California; a spinoff of Gossip Girl. He portrayed a "sleazy" coke dealer on the television series of the same name.

On the third season of the television series Mad Men, Fisher portrayed Geoff Graves, a friend of character Paul Kinsey. Jessica Gelt of the Los Angeles Times described his character as a "preppy drug dealer". In 2010, Fisher was cast in the film Final Destination 5. In an interview with Collider.com, Fisher revealed that the film was set in a workplace environment, and was a 3-D film. Fisher appeared in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Hoover biopic, J. Edgar, playing Agent Garrison, an FBI employee who interviews Leonardo DiCaprio's Hoover throughout the film.

Music career

In July 2009, Fisher released an independently produced self-titled EP, Miles Fisher, as well as a music video for his cover of the Talking Heads song "This Must Be The Place." The video is an homage to the 2000 film American Psycho, with Fisher imitating Christian Bale's performance as Patrick Bateman. Students from the American Film Institute helped film the video, which was shot in Los Angeles. The video was posted on YouTube and various other web sites, and received 200,000 hits on Break.com alone within the first 24 hours. Darrell Hartman of Interview called the usage of the Talking Heads song with the American Psycho theme "a brilliant combo", and noted that Fisher "created a viral hit". Fisher released the song "New Romance" in video and MP3 form on iTunes and on his personal website on July 19, 2011. The video parodies the Final Destination series and Saved By the Bell. On May 22, 2013, a music video for "Finish What We Started" through AboveAverageNetwork on YouTube was posted. The music video featuring Lance Bass has yet to release a single for the song, and a subsequent album has been released, dubbed "Video Music." The music video has been posted to Fisher's personal website.

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2000	Lone Star Struck	Val
2003	Gods and Generals	John Beale
2008	Superhero Movie	Tom Cruise
2009	Head in the Sand	SPC Henry Burch
2010	My First Claire	Brad
2011	Final Destination 5	Peter Friedkin
2011	J. Edgar	Agent Garrison
2012	The Babymakers	Groom
2012	Underneath Your Love	Leon
2014	Believe Me	Pierce
2016	Me Him Her	Scotty

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	True Women	Young Travis McPoon	TV Movie
2008	The Cleaner	Officer Kenneth Herman	Ep. # 1.1, 1.9
2009	Gossip Girl	Klemmer	Ep. # 2.24
2009	Mad Men	Jeffrey Graves	Ep. # 3.3
2011	Psych	The Mantis	Ep. # 6.4
2011	Death Valley	Travis Flynn	Ep. # 1.7
2014	Review with Forrest MacNeil	Thad Valentine	Ep. # 1.7
2015	Man Seeking Woman	Graham	Recurring
2016	2 Broke Girls	Adam	Ep. #5.12

Discography

Albums

• Video Music (2013)

EPs

• Miles Fisher (2009)

Singles

• "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" (2009)
• "New Romance" (2011)
• "Don't Let Go" (2011)
• "Finish What We Started" (2013)
• "Finish What We Started (Andrew Maury Remix)" (feat. Joe Jonas) (2013)

Music videos

Year	Song	Director	Album
2009	"This Must Be the Place"	Dave Green	Miles Fisher
2011	"New Romance"	Dave Green
2012	"Don't Let Go"	Michael Ashton

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Work	Category	Result
2001	International Teen Movie Festival	Head Shot	Best Actor	Won
2006	LeBaron Russell Briggs prize	Screenplay about Vietnam War	Undergraduate thesis	Won

[ Source: Wikipedia ]