Sylvia Miles
Biography
Sylvia Miles was an American actress whose career began on stage in 1947, before she moved into television and film in 1954. Raised in Greenwich Village, she studied at the Actors Studio and worked extensively Off-Broadway, later starring in a one-woman musical about her own life, It's Me, Sylvia!, in 1981. She received two Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress, for Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Farewell, My Lovely (1975), the first for a role that kept her on screen only a few minutes. Her other films included Andy Warhol's Heat (1972), Evil Under the Sun (1982), Crossing Delancey (1988) and She-Devil (1989), along with the Oliver Stone film Wall Street (1987), in which she played a real-estate agent, a part she reprised in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010). She also appeared on Broadway in a 1976 revival of The Night of the Iguana. Miles died in 2019.
94years old at death
- Born Greenwich Village
- Died Manhattan
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- Also credited as Sylvia Reuben Lee
Movie Career
- Films
- 15
- Career span
- 44 years1960 to 2004
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A role that slipped away
Miles was cast as Sally Rogers in the pilot of what became The Dick Van Dyke Show, but Rose Marie took the part for the series.
Beyond film
Miles appeared in many Off-Broadway productions, among them a one-woman musical about her own life called It's Me, Sylvia!, which she starred in during 1981.
Getting ready for a role
Miles played Sylvia St. Croix in the Off-Broadway musical Ruthless! in 1992, one of the few women to take a role originally played by a man in drag.
Sylvia Miles movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Joe Dallesandro appears in three of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Joe Dallesandro's page
Harry Dean Stanton's page
Burgess Meredith's page
Peter Fonda's page
Joe Spinell's page
Elizabeth Ashley's page
Box office
What Sylvia Miles's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$96.4 million
7 of the 15 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 15 films: 7 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 6 figure not found.
- 7Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 6Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The seven biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$45M46.4% of the total
- 2$16M16.9% of the total
- 3$15M16.0% of the total
- 4$7.9M8.2% of the total
- 5$6.1M6.3% of the total
- 6$4.0M4.1% of the total
- 7$2.0M2.1% of the total
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.