Joel McKinnon Miller

Joel McKinnon Miller is an American actor known for playing Don Embry on Big Love from 2006 to 2011 and Detective Norm Scully on Brooklyn Nine-Nine from 2013 to 2021. Born in Rockford in 1960, he took opera singing lessons growing up and later studied theater and opera at the University of Minnesota Duluth, leaving in 1983 for The Acting Company and finishing a theater degree in 2007. Before Big Love, his main television part was Lyle Nubbin across three episodes of Las Vegas, and he made guest appearances in single episodes of many American series. His film work includes supporting roles in The Truman Show, Galaxy Quest, Rush Hour 2 and Men in Black II (2002), plus the voice of Bromley in the animated film The Swan Princess (1994). He was a main cast member in every season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, though he has said that he and Dirk Blocker were first hired for only four episodes.