Family and Education
Miles Fisher's full name is James Leslie Miles Fisher, and he is known to his hometown friends in Dallas simply as James. Fisher is the son of Richard W. Fisher, who is currently the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. His mother Nancy Fisher serves on the national board of the American Film Institute (AFI). Fisher's maternal grandfather was Representative James Collins. He was raised in Dallas, Texas. After his family moved to Washington, D.C., he attended the St. Albans School.
Fisher graduated from Harvard University, where he was an English major. While at Harvard, Fisher was a member of the a cappella singing group the Krokodiloes. Fisher served as the Krokodiloes tour manager, and planned events for the group in 24 countries. Fisher was one of the two students chosen to deliver a Harvard Oration at the 2006 Harvard graduation ceremony. His undergraduate thesis, which won the LeBaron Russell Briggs prize at Harvard, was a "screenplay about a Harvard graduate who avoided the Vietnam draft by teaching in a military prep school". Fisher described film as his passion and said that after graduation he intended to move to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry. In 2009 Fisher resided in Los Angeles, California.
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