He has accumulated over 30 screen credits and has nearly as many nominations to show for it.

But perhaps what reflects Teller’s acting skills more accurately is his credibility.

“I’ve never missed a day of work.

Miles Teller 2009

I’ve never not known a line.

So I feel good about where I am.”

Teller’s journey in films has been far from conventional.

Young Miles Teller in olive tshirt

His transformation has been interesting, to say the least.

Basically the popular lead of a classic Hollywood coming-of-age film, whose mischievous streak magically never undercuts his academics.

To top it off, he was also homecoming king.

Scars on young Miles Teller’s face

After completing high school in Florida, Teller attended acting school where his freethinking tendencies found greater scope.

More on that later.

They are the result of a near-fatal accident in 2007, when Teller was 20 years old.

Miles Teller in “Rabbit Hole”

“I was covered in blood by the side of the road.”

The 2010 drama marked Teller’s Hollywood debut.

“And I was actually sitting next to Beau at Nick’s funeral.”

Miles Teller in “Whiplash”

“This is the first movie where I shut myself off from the world.

It was, by far, the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” Teller toldWmagazine.

There was also quite a bit of blood in the film and some of it was Teller’s.

Miles Teller in captain’s hat

And not in the best way.

“When I’m at a concert I’m looking to escape,” he said.

Teller recalled toVogue, “Keleigh had caught my eye early in the night, and we talked.”

Miles Teller and Keleigh Sperry

Unbeknownst to him then, it was a favorable one.

“I adored him from the first moment we met,” Sperry said.

Sure enough, one date turned into a serious relationship.

Miles Teller and Damien Chazelle at Oscars

They got married in Maui two years later.

Damien told them that he no longer thinks you’re creatively right for the project."

That’s sorta all I can say."

Miles Teller 2015

But who really is Miles Teller?

Teller’s adventurous undertakings also contrast his simple middle-class background, about which he has often spoken rather matter-of-factly.

“I have all my same friends from high school.

Miles Teller dancing with his mother

I’m close with my family.

I’m dating a normal girl.

So I want to feel people think I’m a man of the people.

Miles Teller 2022

Because I feel that way,” he toldThe Guardianin 2016.

But it’s not just carousing that binds the “Footloose” star’s kin together.

Music has seemingly been a strong glue for them ever since Teller was young.

Miles Teller and Tom Cruise

A source said, “He wouldn’t even get the test.

Now he’s brought the virus to the set and the whole set had to shut down.”

The only thing I’m anti is hate" (viaVanity Fair).

I gotta go.'"

That said, it’s not all chitchat.

Teller toldET Onlinethat their conversations have also included talk of another “Top Gun” film in the future.