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Name: Sylvia Miles  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 9th September 1932
   
Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA
   
Profession: Actress
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Sylvia Miles

Actress with a 40 year career in movies. She is best known for her role in the movie Midnight Cowboy as a hooker on a busman's holiday with Jon Voight, which earned her an Oscar nomination, despite the role's brevity.

She played the role of "Sally" in the pilot episode of what would become The Dick Van Dyke Show, which was later taken by Rose Marie for the series. She also appeared in an episode of Naked City as a lovely barfly attempting to communicate with a psychotic Jack Warden.

The once very attractive Miles has become over the years a cult actress known for her increasingly bizarre appearances over the years in public; also, for example, she played an old woman who explains to Sarah Jessica Parker that she takes her lithium in her ice cream, on an episode of Sex and the City.

She is extremely reluctant to release personal details about her early life, but her clippings file at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center (3rd floor) do reveal a great affection for her father, whom she used to call "Daddy", but there are no mentions of a mother or other relatives.

Her birthday is September 9, but the year remains questionable as she was first married in 1948 to one William Miles (according to the IMDB), which means that the usually cited year of 1932 is, in all probability, wrong and that she is somewhat older.

External Links

  • Sylvia Miles at the Internet Movie Database

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