Tahj Di Nero Miles is an English actor Miles was born in Hackney London and has Jamaican St Lucian and Dominican heritage He attended the Betty Layward Primary in Stoke Newington He joined the Anna Fiorentini Theatre and Film School at the age of seven then signed for Fiorentini Agency Miles performed in a West End production of Oliver He joined Disneys Cub School and performed as Simba in a West End production of The Lion King for over a year He was then in Matilda the Musical with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Cambridge Theatre 2013 and Emil and the Detectives with the Royal National Theatre He also secured advertising contracts with Lego and Sainsburys He appeared in Bugsy Malone in the West End 2015 before studying at the BRIT School of performing arts Miles was cast in the BBCs Class Dismissed and Flunked before joining the regular cast of BBC1s Death in Paradise as police officer Marlon Pryce He appeared in Steve McQueens film anthology Small Axe