Patina Miller Is Booked and Busy—And She's Just Getting Started

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By When Patina Miller and I speak, she’s fresh off back-to-back days of filming her Starz hit series Power Book III: Raising Kanan and a “day off” that included a multiple-hours-long photo shoot. “I’m tired, but I’m always tired,” says with a laugh over Zoom from her New York City home. “I’ve learned to just roll with it and be happy that I’m having the moment that I’m having.” In addition to filming the third season of Raising Kanan, that moment includes a recent award-worthy performance as The Witch in the hit Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, a Grammy win for the show’s cast album, coming on board for a film adaptation of the stage production, recording her own music, marathon training, and of course, being mom to five-year-old daughter Emerson.

Even just reading all that, it’s admittedly hard not to get a little dizzy. “I like being busy,” Miller assures me, adding, “But self care is super, super important to me, no matter how busy my schedule is.” Patina Miller at the That emphasis on self care struck when Miller, now 38, became a mom. “After I had my baby, I only had two months off before I had to be back in front of a camera.

I realized that if I was going to be good for my baby, I had to be good for myself first,” she says. “That postpartum time can be so crazy.

Everything is changing about your body and who you are, so I really started to focus on the little things that make me happy.