Joshua John Miller: Movies & Box Office

Joshua John Miller (born December 26, 1974) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, author, and producer. He was born in Los Angeles to actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jason Miller and actress Susan Bernard. Miller's half-brother is actor Jason Patric, and his maternal grandfather was photographer Bruno Bernard. He is known for co-writing with his life partner M. A. Fortin. The duo wrote the screenplay for the 2015 horror comedy The Final Girls, and the USA Network drama series Queen of the South. He 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 starred in such films as River's Edge, Near Dark, Class of 1999, and Teen Witch.

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. The novel was later adapted into a film, which Miller wrote and directed, and co-produced by Whoopi Goldberg. 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 collaborated with M. A. Fortin to write the DreamWorks TV and Fox production Howl. Miller and Fortin wrote the pilot for the USA Network drama series Queen of the South, and Miller serves as an executive producer for the series.