About
The person behind the work.
SAG-AFTRA Actor · Voice Artist
Brandon Miles is a SAG-AFTRA actor and nationally recognized voice artist working across film, television, commercial campaigns, gaming, animation, and audiobook narration.
Before acting, there was an athlete. Before voiceover, there was a basement. Neither looked like the beginning of a career in performance at the time.
Coatesville
The discipline came first.
Brandon is from Coatesville, Pennsylvania, a blue collar town built on hard work and a deep pride in its own.
Growing up, sports were a major part of the community. Young athletes were encouraged to compete, improve, and see how far their ability could take them. Brandon understood that path because he was living it.
Acting was different. He didn't grow up seeing successful actors come from where he was from, nor was acting presented to young people as something to pursue in the same way sports were.
For Brandon, the path was basketball. He had been an athlete for as long as he could remember, but basketball became the sport he took furthest. As he got older, the ambition became more serious. He trained, competed, and developed into a player with legitimate opportunities ahead of him, including receiving a letter of interest from a Division I basketball program. It wasn't a hobby. It was the future he was working toward.
Then Osgood-Schlatter complicated that future. Brandon continued playing through his sophomore year, but persistent pain eventually forced him to sit out his junior-year school season. He worked with doctors and went through physical therapy while continuing to compete on the AAU circuit. He wasn't ready to let basketball go.
But over time, something changed. The player Brandon knew himself to be no longer matched the player he was able to be on the court. He knew his ability. He knew his potential. And the growing distance between the two began to change his relationship with the game. Eventually, he lost his grip on the love for basketball that had driven him for so many years.
That was when he knew he had to close that door.
The discipline didn't leave with it. It simply moved into whatever came next.
The Creative Thread
Creativity didn't start when acting did. Looking back, there were clues.
There was another side of Brandon that didn't have as obvious a path. Music was his first love. Not as a career plan, but as something he was naturally drawn to. He became interested in music production, occasionally wrote music, and enjoyed creating simply because he loved it.
By his junior year of high school, Brandon had put together a small studio setup in the basement with a microphone. Friends would come over and make songs for fun. Nothing was intended for public release. There was no larger plan behind it.
Brandon was also naturally shy. Athletics gradually challenged that part of him. As he grew into more responsibility, sports required him to communicate, lead, compete under pressure, and become more comfortable being seen.
None of it felt connected at the time.
The Pivot
A monologue opened an unexpected door.
When basketball was no longer the future Brandon had expected, modeling became his first introduction to the entertainment industry. It was there that his manager, Daryl Washington, saw something Brandon hadn't considered for himself. He thought Brandon could act.
Daryl challenged him to learn a monologue. Brandon chose a scene from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. It was his first real encounter with acting. He had never grown up imagining himself as an actor. Now he was being asked to step into someone else's circumstances, prepare a performance, and make it believable.
The response opened another door.
Agent interest followed, and Brandon eventually signed.
Then the world shut down. COVID made the beginning slower than expected. There wasn't an immediate career waiting on the other side of representation. Brandon had time to learn what this new pursuit actually required. And at first, he thought he might be able to figure it out on his own.
Learning the Work
By then, Brandon was a student at West Chester University, where he would graduate in Winter 2021 with a bachelor's degree in Business Marketing. Money was limited, and spending what he had on acting classes wasn't an easy decision.
There was pride involved, too. Part of Brandon wanted to see how far he could get without formal training. If he could book without a coach, maybe that would prove something.
Eventually, he was introduced to acting coach Kia Reddick-Taylor of StarCatcher Acting Studio. That relationship changed the way Brandon approached the work.
Working with Kia gave him more than technique. It gave him confidence. Session by session, he began understanding how to break down material, trust his instincts, and recognize the difference between trying to act and actually living within the circumstances of a scene.
The investment he had once been hesitant to make became one of the most important investments he made in himself.
As Brandon grew, the results began to follow. He started booking more consistently, but more importantly, he started feeling like an actor. Somewhere in that process, acting stopped being something Daryl had seen in him. He began to see it too.
Kia remains a major contributor to the actor Brandon has become.
Another Door
Voiceover came from somewhere else entirely. Years earlier, Brandon had put a microphone in his basement because music was his first love. The setup had been built for creativity, not a career.
Then came an opportunity to audition for a Truth Initiative project. He recorded it from home.
The microphone was already there. The interface was already there. The room was already there.
He booked it.
That first booking opened a form of performance Brandon hadn't previously considered. Voiceover began developing alongside acting. The mediums were different, but the work underneath them increasingly felt familiar. Understand the story. Understand who is speaking. Make the moment believable.
What began as two unexpected opportunities gradually became one career, lived both on camera and behind the microphone.
The Craft
Brandon's relationship with the work continues to evolve. Early on, it was easy to think about performance in terms of choices. What should the character do here? How should this line be said? What would make the scene more interesting?
Over time, Brandon became more interested in what happens before those questions ever need to be asked. Know the character. Know the circumstances. Know what matters to them. Then be present enough to let something happen.
The deeper he understands a character, the less interested he is in manufacturing behavior for the camera. A gesture, a pause, a look, or a change in thought shouldn't be there simply because an actor decided to put it there. It should belong to the person living the moment.
Preparation is what gives him the freedom to stop showing the work.
That means asking questions. What happened before the scene? What isn't being said? What does this person want from the person across from them? What changes when they don't get it? Why this word? Why now?
The goal isn't to deliver the line correctly. It's to discover what makes the character breathe. And when the work is done well, the choices don't look like choices at all. They simply look like behavior.
Behind the Performance
Sometimes the smallest physical choice unlocks the voice.
Soundtrack
Behind the scenes · Recording Soundtrack
Inspired by the curiosity of where my best could take me.
Outside the Work
The work matters deeply to Brandon. It just isn't the entirety of who he is.
Music is still his first love. What started as experimenting with production and making songs with friends never really disappeared. The relationship with it is different now, but the instinct to create is still there.
Brandon values experiences, too. Traveling. Finding good food. Spending time with the people closest to him. The things that make life feel full outside of whatever happens to be on the schedule next.
He's naturally collaborative. He would rather make something with people he likes than make it alone.
Family and close relationships keep him grounded. Brandon values people who can encourage him, challenge him, hold him accountable, and expect the same from him in return.
His faith sits underneath all of it. It shapes the way he thinks about purpose, gratitude, relationships, and what it means to make something of the opportunities he's been given.
Representation
New York
Stewart Talent
Philadelphia
Reinhard Agency
Management
Daryl Washington, Global Management 101
Victoria Lyandres, Creative Talent Management