Joanna Miles
Joanna Miles is an American actress. She received two Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Laura Wingfield in the 1973 film production of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.
Joanna Miles
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- Name
- Joanna Miles
- Birthplace
- Nice, France
- Born
- Joanna Miles was born on 6 March 1940. · Nice.
- Nationality
- United States · France
- Occupation
- actress
- Education
- The Putney School
- Honours
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
- Languages
- French · English
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Joanna Miles is an American actress. She received two Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Laura Wingfield in the 1973 film production of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.
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• Name — Joanna Miles • Birthplace — Nice, France • Years Active — 1963–present • Mother — Jeanne Patterson Miles
Early life and education
Early life and education
Miles was born in Nice, France, the daughter of Jeanne Patterson Miles, an American painter, and Johannes Schiefer, a French painter and art curator. She was accepted into the Actors Studio, where she studied alongside Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Dustin Hoffman.
Acting career
Acting career
Miles won two Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Laura Wingfield in the 1973 film production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie: the Super Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in Drama, and Supporting Actress of the Year. She has also played supporting roles in various movies, including The Way We Live Now (1970), Bug (1975), The Ultimate Warrior (1975), The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978), A Fire in the Sky (1978), Cross Creek (1983), Blackout (1988), Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (1990), Above Suspicion (1995), Judge Dredd (1995) and Sex and Breakfast (2007). She is known to Star Trek: The Next Generation fans as Perrin, Sarek's wife, from the episodes "Sarek" and "Unification". In 2001, she had a secondary role as the wife of a storekeeper in Tom Selleck's Turner Network Television Western film, Crossfire Trail. She was also in an episode of The Incredible Hulk entitled "The Quiet Room" and in the episode "Murder on the Flip Side" of the NBC crime drama The Eddie Capra Mysteries.
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Joanna Miles is recorded as actress.
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Joanna Miles was born in Nice.
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