a Christmas Elf. Production Miller directed a television pilot that subsequently became the first episode of Steve Coogan's 2006 British BBC TV series Saxondale. He and Alexander Armstrong have formed a production company named Toff Media. Awards Miller was awarded a Judges' Commendation for his portrayal of Hamlet at the 1990 National Student Drama Festival. He co-wrote MindGym, winner of the first BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Award for comedy in 1998, with Tim Wright and Adam Gee. He and Armstrong won a BCA Award for The Armstrong and Miller Show. In 2010 they also won a BAFTA for The Armstrong and Miller Show. In 2021, with the cast of Bridgerton, Miller received a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Personal life Miller's first wife was Belinda Stewart-Wilson, who guest-starred with him in Series 3 of Primeval. The pair, who have a son born in 2006, divorced in 2011. Miller has another son, born in late 2011, and a daughter, born in June 2015, with his second wife, production executive Jessica Parker, whom he married in September 2013; Jessica is the daughter of British musician Alan Parker. On 20 February 2009, Miller appeared with Rob Brydon in an episode of QI (Series 6. 9). The two have often been mistaken for each other, and as a joke they dressed in similar shirts for the episode and shared an on-screen kiss. Miller plays the guitar and drums. Miller is a very distant relative of US President Abraham Lincoln. Filmography Books It's Not Rocket Science (2014) Sphere The Aliens Are Coming!: The Exciting and Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe (2017) Sphere The Night I Met Father Christmas (2018) Simon and Schuster The Boy Who Made the World Disappear (2019) Simon and Schuster The Day I Fell into a Fairytale (2020) Simon and Schuster How I Became a Dog called Midnight (2021) Simon and Schuster Diary of a Christmas Elf (2021) Simon and Schuster How I Became a Dog Called Midnight (2022) Simon and Schuster The Night We Got Stuck in a Story (2022) Simon and Schuster Secrets of a Christmas Elf (2022) Simon and Schuster References External links The Armstrong & Miller Show official website Ben Miller hands out his very own BAFTAs 1966 births Living people People from Nantwich Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge English male