Sarah Miles
| Sarah Miles | |
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Miles in the 1966 film Blowup
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| Born |
31 December 1941 Ingatestone, Essex, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1961–2004 |
| Spouse(s) |
Robert Bolt (1967–1975; divorced) (1988–1995; his death) |
| Children | 1 |
Sarah Miles (born 31 December 1941) is an English theatre and film actress. Her best known films include The Servant (1963), Blowup (1966), Ryan's Daughter (1970) and Hope and Glory (1987).
Sarah Miles was born in the small town of Ingatestone, Essex, in South East England; her brother is film director, producer and screenwriter Christopher Miles. Miles's parents were Clarice Vera Remnant and Frank Remnant. Through her maternal grandfather Francis Remnant, Miles claims to be the great-granddaughter of Prince Francis of Teck (1870–1910) and thus a second cousin once removed of Elizabeth II.
Unable to speak until the age of nine because of a stammer and dyslexia, she attended Roedean, and three other schools, but was expelled from all of them. Miles enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) at the age of 15. Shortly after finishing at RADA, Miles debuted as Shirley Taylor, a "husky wide-eyed nymphet" in Term of Trial (1962), which featured Laurence Olivier; she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer.
Soon afterwards, Miles had a role as "Vera from Manchester" in Joseph Losey's The Servant (1963), and "thrust sexual appetite into British films" according to David Thomson. She gained another BAFTA nomination, this time as Best Actress. She had a "peripheral" part in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup (1966). a director she thought (at his death in 2007) was "a rogue and a tyrant and a brilliant man".
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