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Trainspotting’s Jonny Lee Miller: ‘If I could make a living being a firefighter, I may well just do that’

The actor who played Sick Boy on his voluntary work in New York and why he’s relieved social media wasn’t around in the 90s

Jonny Lee Miller is a 51-year-old British actor who has played Sick Boy in Trainspotting, Sherlock Holmes in Elementary and John Major in The Crown. In 2012 he won a joint Olivier award with Benedict Cumberbatch for Frankenstein on stage, and this month starsin the West End transfer of Sam Holcroft’s play A Mirror, which was a sell-out hit at the Almeida last summer. Jonny Lee Miller as Sick Boy, second right, with Ewen Bremner (Spud), Ewan McGregor (Renton) and Robert Carlyle (Begbie) in Trainspotting, 1996.

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