Sylvia Miles

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Sylvia Miles filming the film 33 degrees in the shade (1975)

Sylvia Miles (born September 9, 1924 in New York City ; actually Sylvia Reuben Lee ; † June 12, 2019 ibid) was an American actress who received two nominations for the Oscar for best supporting actress .

Early years

Sylvia Miles was born in New York City in 1924 to Reuben Lee, the owner of a furniture factory, and Bell Fellmann-Lee, and had a sister who lives in Las Vegas. Miles grew up in Greenwich Village , the bohemian district of New York, and spent most of her life in New York. According to her own statements, she felt drawn to the theater early on, but less to acting at first. She only discovered her passion for acting when she was just 16 years old, when she replaced an unusual actor during her apprenticeship with a set designer.

The actress

Sylvia Miles received her training at the renowned Actors Studio in New York. At first she played more conservative roles on Broadway. With the play "The Balcony" by Jean Genet , however, this changed: Here she played a dominant woman who allowed it a disguised as judge man to whip it - but only after they had forced him to lick their boots. With this role, which was extremely scandalous for the time, the actress laid the foundation for her later career, in which she - especially during the 1960s - played predominantly prostitutes or sexually starved women who have lost their footing in life and in vain for the favor of Men court.

While rehearsing for the piece, she was cast for her first film role (Murder, Inc.) . Her big breakthrough came in 1969 with the role of the prostitute Cass in the film Asphalt-Cowboy . Her appearance, which lasted only six minutes, earned her an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress ( the shortest role ever to be nominated for an Oscar after Beatrice Straight's appearance on Network ). Six years later she was able to repeat this success when she was nominated for the second time for an Oscar for the role of an aging, alcohol-addicted widow in Fahr zur Hölle, Liebling (film adaptation of the 1975 Raymond Chandler classic).

From the mid-1970s, Sylvia Miles worked on several less successful horror films (which, after films like Rosemary's Baby, were also attractive to serious actors and directors at the time), turned in the 1980s with films like Evil Under the Sun , The Devil and Cannon Movie Tales: Sleeping Beauty but solid roles again.

She had one of her more recent appearances in the first episode of the fifth season of the television series Sex and the City , where she plays an old (and unmarried) woman who, because of her desolate state of mind, always mixes lithium with her ice cream.

With High Times Potluck , she won the 2002 New York Independent Film and Video Award for Best Supporting Actress for the first time an award for her acting performance.

The pop art icon

At least since the filming of the film Heat , Sylvia Miles has been an icon of the Pop Art movement and has been added to the circle around Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey . Since then, the extremely active partygoer has made a name for herself, especially with her unusual outfits and her eccentric demeanor. The incident is spread over and over again in 1973 when she threw a plate of spaghetti over the head of the critic John Simon, who had written a slap on her, in a New York restaurant.

Private life

Miles was married three times, from 1948 to 1950 to William Miles, from 1952 to 1958 to actor Gerald Price and from 1963 to 1970 to Ted Brown.

Awards

Filmography

  • 1960: Underworld (Murder, Inc.)
  • 1960: The Comedy Spot (TV series, episode Head of the Family )
  • 1960: Play of the Week (TV series, episode 2x11 Uncle Harry )
  • 1961: His name was Parrish (Parrish)
  • 1961: Route 66 (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1961–1963: Merciless City ( Naked City , TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1963: Violent Midnight
  • 1964: Terror in the City
  • 1967: NYPD (TV series, episode 1x08 To Catch a Hero )
  • 1969: Asphalt-Cowboy (Midnight Cowboy)
  • 1971: The Last Movie
  • 1971: Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
  • 1972: Heat (Heat)
  • 1975: Farewell, My Lovely (Farewell, My Lovely)
  • 1975: 33 degrees in the shade (92 in the shade)
  • 1976: The Superman of the Wild West (The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday)
  • 1977: Witches' Sabbath (The Sentinel)
  • 1978: The Crash Company (Zero to Sixty)
  • 1978: Shalimar - Jewel of Death (Shalimar)
  • 1981: The Cabinet of Secrets (The Funhouse)
  • 1982: Evil Under the Sun (Evil Under the Sun)
  • 1982–1984: All My Children (TV series)
  • 1983: No Big Deal (TV movie)
  • 1985: Miami Vice (TV series, episode 1x19 The Home Invaders )
  • 1985: Junge Schicksale ( ABC Afterschool Specials , TV series, episode 14x02 Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale )
  • 1986: Der Equalizer ( The Equalizer , TV series, episode 1x14 Out of the Past )
  • 1987: Critical Conditions
  • 1987: Wall Street
  • 1987: Cannon Movie Tales: Sleeping Beauty
  • 1988: Sarah and Sam (Crossing Delancey)
  • 1988: Brooklyn Kid (Spike of Bensonhurst)
  • 1989: The devil (She-Devil)
  • 1995: This is Denise (Denise Calls Up)
  • 2000: The Boys Behind the Desk
  • 2002: Sex and the City (TV series, episode 5x01 Anchors Away )
  • 2002: High Times Potluck
  • 2002: Love, Lie, Passion ( One Life to Live , TV series, an episode)
  • 2003: Rose's
  • 2007: Go Go Tales
  • 2008: Life on Mars (TV series, episode 1x02 The Real Adventures of the Unreal Sam Tyler )
  • 2010: Wall Street : Money Never Sleeps (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oscar-nominated 'Midnight Cowboy' actress Sylvia Miles dies. In: USA Today . June 12, 2019, accessed June 13, 2019 . Mike Barnes, Duane Byrge: Sylvia Miles, Scene-Stealer in 'Midnight Cowboy' and 'Farewell, My Lovely,' Dies at 94. In: hollywoodreporter.com . June 12, 2019, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  2. ^ Anita Gates: Sylvia Miles, Actress With a Flair for the Flamboyant, Dies at 94. In: nytimes.com . June 12, 2019, accessed June 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Miles, Sylvia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reuben Lee, Sylvia (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 2019
Place of death New York City , New York , United States