Сильвия Майлз: Жизнь и карьера американской актрисы

American actress (1924 2019)

Sylvia Miles (née Scheinwald; September 9, 1924 – June 12, 2019) was an American actress. She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Farewell, My Lovely (1975). Miles was a fixture in New York City society, having lived there her entire life. She performed in many Off broadway shows, including starring in a one woman musical based on her life, titled It's Me, Sylvia! in 1981.

Miles was born and raised in Greenwich Village, New York City. She was the second daughter of Jewish parents, Belle (née Feldman) and Reuben Scheinwald, a furniture maker. She was educated at Washington Irving High School and the Actors Studio. Her early television work included appearances in three episodes of Naked City (TV series) and two episodes of Route 66 (TV series). She appeared Off Broadway in “Ruthless!” The Musical (1992) at the Players Theatre, NYC, playing Sylvia St. Croix (originally played by Joel Vig in drag); she was one of the few females to play the role. She appeared on Broadway in two productions, most notably the 1976 revival of The Night of the Iguana. Miles was cast in the film Midnight Cowboy (1969) as an aging Park Avenue kept woman, who invites Joe Buck (Jon Voight) up to her penthouse apartment for sex—another role in which Miles showed off her voluptuous figure (cf. as Red in "The Thin White Line," Route 66, S2E11). She appeared in Evil Under the Sun (1982), the film version of Agatha Christie's novel of the same name, portraying a Broadway producer, one of her more mainstream film roles. She played real estate agent Dolores in the Oliver Stone film Wall Street (1987), a role she reprised in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010). Wayland Flowers and his puppet Madame first uttered the widely quoted line, "Sylvia Miles and Andy Warhol would attend the opening of an envelope". Miles starred in Warhol's feature film Heat (1972). appearing in a long lingering scene nude with Joe Dallesandro She was also featured in mainstream films including 92 in the Shade, Critical Condition, The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday, Crossing Delancey, and the 1989 comedy She Devil, in which she played the mother of Meryl Streep's character. In a New York restaurant in 1973, Miles publicly dumped a plate of food onto critic John Simon's head for his negative comments about her in a review of a play she starred in. In 1975, Miles complained about being typecast as a prostitute in almost all of her then 14 movies and 26 off Broadway plays to date. "Do I look like a prostitute? What does a hooker look like, anyway? Me?" In her final years, Miles appeared in a few roles on television such as Sex and the City and One Life to Live, and in the films Go Go Tales and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. She had been in declining health in recent years and was in nursing home care in her final months.

Year Title Role Notes1960Murder, Inc. Sadie1961ParrishEileen1963Violent MidnightSilvia1964Pie in the SkyRose1969Midnight CowboyCassNominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1971The Last MovieScript Clerk1971Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name?Christine1972HeatSally Todd1975Farewell, My LovelyJessie Halstead FlorianNominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress197592 in the ShadeBella1976The Great Scout & Cathouse ThursdayMadam 'Mike'1977The SentinelGerde1978Zero to SixtyFlo Ames1978ShalimarCountess Rasmussen1981The FunhouseMadame Zena1982Evil Under the SunMyra Gardener1987Critical ConditionMaggie1987Sleeping BeautyRed Fairy1987Wall StreetDolores the Realtor1988Crossing DelanceyHannah Mandelbaum1988Spike of BensonhurstCongresswoman1989She DevilFrancine Fisher1995Denise Calls UpGail's Aunt Sharon2000The Boys Behind the Desk2002High Times' PotluckMa2003Rose'sMs. P2007Go Go TalesLilian Murray2010Wall Street: Money Never SleepsDolores the Realtor2019Japanese BorschtMary Tess(final film role)