Jonny Lee Miller gets big role in 'The Crown' and reconnects with ex-wife Angelina Jolie

British actor Jonny Lee Miller, known for the character Sick Boy in 'Trainspotting,' has been in the news lately. His ex-wife Angelina Jolie has been to the actor's Brooklyn, NY house several times, sparking rumours of a reconciliation. Moreover, Miller is set to appear in 'The Crown' with a historic role.

While the world has been talking Hollywood revivals, series reunions and romantic reconciliations, no one imagined these two getting back together. But is that really happening for Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller, a couple two decades ago and recently seen together in a few stolen moments?

Yes, perhaps many people do not know it, but this actor and actress were married. Jonny Lee Miller was Angelina Jolie's first husband.

Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie met on the set of 'Hackers' (1995). The crush was instantaneous. She was 21, he was 23, and in 1996 they got married.

The same year that Jonny Lee Miller married Angelina Jolie, he would also sign his most memorable film role. Sick Boy was his character in Danny Boyle's ground-breaking movie 'Trainspotting'. Miller stands to the left of Ewan McGregor on this image.

It was a mad love between two young and reckless actors. This was clear in the curious details of their wedding ceremony.

Angelina Jolie came to her wedding wearing impossible fake leather pants and a T-shirt with 'Jonny' written on the back... in blood! It was Angelina Jolie's own blood which, as she later assured to the The New York Times, was "very carefully" extracted with a "clean surgical needle."

The marriage only lasted a year. In 1997, the couple separated. They signed the divorce in 1999.

As fate would have it, just as Jonny Lee Miller had reached his cinematic peak in the year of his wedding with 'Trainspotting', Angelina Jolie did the same in the year of her divorce: she got the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress with her role in 'Girl, Interrupted'.

Despite the separation, Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller always maintained a close friendship.

At some point the actress even confided to B Magazine that divorcing the British actor was "probably the dumbest thing I've ever done."

Throughout the past two decades, the former couple kept in touch and, as long as their schedules allowed, they arranged to catch up. This is something they never hid from the press.

In fact, Buster Taylor Miller, the son of Jonny Lee Miller and his second wife Michelle Hicks (married until 2018), is close friends with Knox Jolie-Pitt.

The two boys were together in the actor's Brooklyn apartment, People magazine reported, when Angelina Jolie visited him the other day.

Angelina Jolie had come to Jonny Lee Miller's apartment with a bottle of wine in her hand. The news of her visit spread like wildfire and some media began to talk of a reconciliation between the two ex-lovers.

The actors themselves say that there's no romantic reconciliation. They continue to be friends.

A few days after the scoop of Angelina's evening with Jonny Lee Miller and the bottle of wine, the actress went to his place again. This time, she brought her other son, Pax, with her.

A source told The Sun that Pax (on the right in this photo) may have come along for a specific reason: the 17-year-old wants to live in New York, and his mum is obviously a bit worried about him moving to the City That Never Sleeps. Her eldest son, Maddox (19, on the left), has already moved out and is now studying in South Korea.

"Angie is very happy because Pax keeps making noise about moving to New York someday soon, maybe even for school," the source said. "She's glad he’ll have someone she trusts around for him to go to for advice or just to see a friendly face."

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You may not know it, but Jonny Lee Miller's maternal grandfather Bernard Lee was a known actor too. Both Angelina Jolie and her ex-husband are from an actors' family.

(Remember Angelina's father is Jon Voigt?)

Jonny's grandfather was Bernard Lee, the actor who played M in 'Doctor No' (1962) and other James Bond movies. He would be the spy's regular boss in the first eleven films of the 007 franchise.

What's more, Jonny Lee Miller himself was one of the names on the table to replace Pierce Brosnan as James Bond in 2005. In the end, Daniel Craig got the job.

That said, what do we know Jonny Lee Miller from, if not from 'Trainspotting'? Highlights of Jonny Lee Miller's 30-year career have been 'Melinda and Melinda' (2004), 'Aeon Flux' (2005) and 'Dark Shadows' (2012).

His journey on television has been most memorable thanks to his interpretation of Sherlock Homes.

In 2012, CBS began broadcasting the series 'Elementary' in which Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) was a character in present-day New York. His partner Watson was a woman, Joan Watson, played by Lucy Liu.

The experiment could not have gone better. Jonny Lee Miller was a perfect Sherlock and his chemistry with Lucy Liu burned the screen. The series swept through seven seasons and 154 episodes.

'Elementary' came to an end in 2019 and Jonny Lee Miller went down in history as the second best Sherlock on television (behind the BBC's masterful Sherlock played by Benedict Cumberbatch).

After seven years of Sherlock, Jonny Lee Miller appeared to be in a quieter stage of his career. He had several projects going, like 'Settlers', 'Alice' and 'Nine Lives', but they seemed less impactful than 'Elementary'.

But now there's a new project with the Netflix drama 'The Crown.' Jonny Lee Miller has been cast as Prime Minister John Major. He will appear in multiple episodes of the highly acclaimed series.

Sir John Major was Prime Minister of the UK from 1990 to 1997. During his term the Gulf War, negotiations with the European Union, the economic crisis of 'Black Wednesday' and the end of Apartheid in South Africa were some of the important issues.

Jonny Lee Miller is taking over the role of Prime Minister in 'The Crown' from Gillian Anderson. She played John Major's predecessor Margaret Thatcher with great success and won a Golden Globe (among other awards) for her performance.

We'll be hearing a lot more from Jonny Lee Miller, that's for sure. But whether it'll be about his personal relationship with Angelina Jolie or mostly about his acting performance in 'The Crown', is something we'll have to wait and see.

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