N.C. A&T freshman psychology student, actor and singer Jaden Lucas Miller experienced a huge milestone in entertainment on March 12 with his debut in the newest daytime soap opera Beyond The Gates.
Miller plays Tyrell Richardson, who is part of the esteemed Dupree family and one of two adopted children of Martin and Smitty. The Duprees are the center of the series, a multi-generational family living in the gated community of Fairmont Crest in Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C.
Beyond The Gates holds significance in television history as the first Black-led daytime soap opera and the first new daytime soap to debut on a major American broadcast network in over 25 years. The last time viewers welcomed a daytime soap was in 1999 with NBC’s Passions.
Just last summer, Miller, a Raleigh, North Carolina, native, graduated from Cardinal Gibbons High School and enrolled at A&T that fall. He grew up as an active participant at the Raleigh Little Theatre and the North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre. It was during his final months of high school, as a prospective college track athlete, that he realized his true passion for acting and decided to fully embrace the grind…