MILES
TELLER

Miles Teller was born in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, on 20 February 1987. Rabbit Hole (2010), with Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart, marked his feature-film debut. His early work also included Footloose (2011) and Project X (2012), before The Spectacular Now (2013) placed him opposite Shailene Woodley. That movement between drama and comedy provides useful context for an actor whose characters can appear socially at ease while struggling to understand what another person is asking of them.

In James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now, Teller plays Sutter, whose charm becomes part of a relationship that asks more of him than a good first impression. FLM.RED’s reading follows the difference between keeping a conversation moving and allowing it to become serious. A joke can make an encounter feel effortless, but it can also delay an answer. Watching how Teller changes pace when another character refuses that delay opens a way into the film’s movement from youthful confidence toward a less comfortable kind of self-knowledge.

Whiplash (2014), written and directed by Damien Chazelle, cast him as Andrew Neiman, an ambitious jazz drummer facing J.K. Simmons’s demanding instructor. For FLM.RED, the performance makes an abstract wish to excel visible through repeated physical effort. A rehearsal becomes an encounter in which attention, approval and control are being negotiated. The important question is what a character is learning to accept along with the skill he wants. Teller’s responses help keep that question active inside the music rather than apart from it.

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) brought him the role of Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw, the son of Maverick’s late friend Goose. FLM.RED is interested in how the role places professional training alongside a relationship already burdened by history. What sounds like an instruction can be heard as a judgement, and the work of becoming a team depends on more than technical ability. These films offer different scales for pressure without making the characters’ circumstances interchangeable. The titles below are films currently linked to Teller in FLM.RED, rather than a complete filmography.