"The Human Stain" features Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Coleman Silk, a respected university classics professor who finds himself becoming involved in a heated sexual relationship with a poor cleaning woman (Nicole Kidman) with a jealous, violent husband (Ed Harris). As their relationship heats up, and her husband becomes more dangerous, Coleman also faces troubles at work, as his entire life seems ready to fall apart at the seams... and what is the secret that he has kept for so long?
Cast: Anthony Hopkins (Dr. Coleman Silk), Wentworth Miller (younger Dr. Coleman Silk), Nicole Kidman (Faunia Farley), Ed Harris (Lester Farley), Gary Sinise (Nathan Zuckerman), Jacinda Barrett (Steena Paulsson), Ron Canada (Herb Kebble), Anne Dudek (Lisa Silk), John Finn (Louie Borero), Mimi Kuzyk (Professor Delphine Roux), Harry J. Lennix, Wentworth Miller (Young Coleman Silk), Anna Deavere Smith (Mrs. Silk), Kerry Washington (Ellie)
Director: Robert Benton (Nobody's Fool, Twilight, Kramer Vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart, Billy Bathgate) Screenwriter: Nicholas Meyer (Time After Time, Company Business, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; cowriter of Fatal Attraction, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
Wentworth Miller (Young Dr. Colemen Silk) had his first taste of stardom in a role as the sensitive and introverted David in ABC's mini-series _"Dinotopia" (2002/I) (mini)_. The very successful longform from Robert Halmi Sr. was a combination of character-driven action and state-of-the-art special effects, and was a story about a world where humans and dinosaurs live together in a magical civilization. From this effects-driven adventure story, Miller moved to one of Hollywood's favorite new projects, "The Human Stain." Miller had the opportunity to observe and work with 'Sir Anthony Hopkins'. The two share the film's central character, Coleman Silk, Miller playing him as a young man before the story moves forward in the tempestuous life of this Ivy League professor.
Miller has at least one thing more in common with the great British Hopkins: though he was raised in Brooklyn, Miller was actually born in Great Britain. - in Chipping Norton, England where his father, a Rhodes Scholar, was studying. Miller is a graduate of Princeton University where he began acting and also sang with the school's touring a capella group.
A graduate of Princeton, Miller's stage time during college was spent singing, and he traveled the world performing with the school's famed a capella group, The Princeton Tigertones. For reasons still a mystery to himself, his family and his friends, the young graduate headed to Los Angeles to pursue a behind-the-scenes career in the entertainment industry. And while he was able, with enviable ease, to turn an internship into a paying job and an actual burgeoning career, before long the drive to move in front of the camera became inescapable.
With the support of committed management, within a couple of years Miller landed guest spots, learned fast and earned attention on series including "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) and "Popular" (1999). "Dinotopia" was his first starring role.
He also recently starred in the vampire fantasy "Underworld" with Kate Beckinsale.
