Prison Break star's parents are Irish

standbyme

Was listening to young D'arcy on radio earlier on & heard that Prison Break star's parent(s) are Irish,
Wentworth Miller & Dominic Purcell's
I dont know if this has already been posted, but its news to me!

lukin

I posted before that Dominic Purcell's mother is from Dundalk but as far as I know Wentworth Miller doesn't have any Irish roots.
There was a funny part in the first episode of this season where the brother's had fake passports with the names "Archie Ryan" and "Phinius McClintock" on them.

shinny

Lukin, that's my understanding too and I'd say Dominic had influence on the funny Irish names !!

Wentworth was born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, where his father, a Rhodes Scholar, was living while studying at Oxford.

Miller's father is of African-American, Jamaican, British, German Jewish, and Cherokee ancestry, while his mother is of Russian, French, Syrian, Dutch, and Lebanese ancestry. In an interview, Miller said: "My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, at times, caught between two communities.

As much as we'd like it to be true, he has no Irish roots !!

Gangsta

What's the big deal if they have Irish roots or not?

shinny

Gangsta wrote:

What's the big deal if they have Irish roots or not?

Don't think it's a "big deal" gangsta, just an observation

Gangsta

shinny wrote:

Don't think it's a "big deal" gangsta, just an observation

even though you said,

shinny wrote:

As much as we'd like it to be true, he has no Irish roots !!

fair enough...

shinny

Gangsta wrote:

even though you said,

fair enough...

Hmm, looks like someone hanckering for an arguement

qwertplaywert

aye,dominics parents are just up the road from me, one of the local papers had his visit at christmas as the main story

standbyme

Ah well,thought there might be a visit or 'break' over here!

You know when you have someone saying they have relations from/where like: I'm half-Irish, quarter English & the rest Drambuie LOL

gucci

must be where domnic gets his appaling acting "ability" from, he would look poor on fair city, with his mono tone voice and reactions.

shinny

gucci wrote:

must be where domnic gets his appaling acting "ability" from, he would look poor on fair city, with his mono tone voice and reactions.

In fairness, I think that's because he's trying hard to surpress the Aussie accent !!

lukin

shinny wrote:

In fairness, I think that's because he's trying hard to surpress the Aussie accent !!

He was doing the commentary on some of the eps on the boxset of season one and he had an American accent. Gas man too, easily known he's a paddy!

shinny

lukin wrote:

He was doing the commentary on some of the eps on the boxset of season one and he had an American accent. Gas man too, easily known he's a paddy!

Lol, yeh I read in an interview with him that he was advised to speak "American" all the time because he was finding it really hard switching between both accents.

He said his wife was a bit weirded out by it (she's an Aussie) but got used to it, but the only time it is an issue is when they have a row and she'd say, speak to me in Australian not American !! He said he gets an awful slagging from his Aussie mates too !!

Jesus Wept

Shame they are both fairly dreadful actors.

One dimensional would be a compliment and an improvement.