Sylvia Miles

Sylvia Miles
Sylvia Miles on Duval Street during the filming of 92 in the Shade in November 1974.
Born	Disputed New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Actors Studio
Occupation	Actress
Spouse(s)	William Miles (m. 1948; div. 1950) Gerald Price (m. 1952; div. 1960) Ted Brown (m. 1963; div. 1970)

Sylvia Miles is an American film, stage and television actress, twice nominated for an Academy Award.

Miles was born in New York City and raised in Greenwich Village, where her father is believed to have worked as a furniture maker. Her birth year has been generally reported as 1932, but Miles insists she was born in 1934. Neither year can be confirmed as her name at birth is unknown. Some sources place Miles' birth in the 1920s. Her parents were both Jewish.

Miles 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 appeared in two episodes of Naked City, including once as a lovely barfly attempting to communicate with a psychotic Jack Warden.

One of Miles' best-known roles was in Midnight Cowboy as an aging Park Avenue-kept woman who invites Joe Buck (Jon Voight) up to her penthouse apartment for sex. The role earned her an Oscar nomination in 1969 for Best Supporting Actress, despite only appearing on screen for about six minutes. She received a second Oscar nomination for her slightly larger role (eight minutes) as Best Supporting Actress in 1975 for her role in Farewell, My Lovely.

In 1978, she had a cameo role in the Indian suspense film Shalimar. She appeared in the 1982 film version of Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun, portraying a Broadway producer, one of her more mainstream film roles. She played a real estate agent in the Michael Douglas-Oliver Stone film Wall Street (1987), a role she would reprise in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.