Joe McKinnon Miller

Joel McKinnon Miller, sometimes credited as Joel McKinnon, is an American film and television actor who has been living in Los Angeles since 1991. He is known for the role of Don Embry on HBO's drama series Big Love and the role of Detective Scully on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Life and career
Miller, a native of Rockford, Minnesota, took opera singing lessons as a youth and later attended the University of Minnesota Duluth where he studied theatre. He dropped out in 1980, a few credits short of graduating, but returned to his alma mater to finish his degree in 2007.

Prior to Big Love his main role on television was as Lyle Nubbin in three episodes of Las Vegas. Since 1991 he has also appeared in episodes of several American television series, including Cold Case, Murphy Brown, The Commish, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Pacific Blue, Dharma & Greg, The X Files, ER, Malcolm in the Middle, Roswell, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Deadwood, Six Feet Under, Desperate Housewives, Boston Legal, The Closer, and Everybody Loves Raymond (in which he portrayed George, the custodian, in the episode The Faux Pas).

His biggest role in a movie is in the 2003 award winning television movie Secret Santa. He also played supporting characters in The Truman Show, Galaxy Quest, Rush Hour 2 and Men in Black II, and supplied the voice of Bromley in the animated feature The Swan Princess. Miller currently appears as a cast member on Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Detective Scully.