Editing Sarah Miles (section)

==Career==
===Early career===
Shortly after finishing at RADA, Miles performed in an episode of the TV series ''[[Deadline Midnight (TV series)|Deadline Midnight]]'' titled "Manhunt". Her film debut was as Shirley Taylor, a "husky, wide-eyed nymphet"<ref name="Thomson">David Thomson ''A New Biographical Dictionary of Film'', London: Little Brown, 2002, p.594</ref> in ''[[Term of Trial]]'' (1962), which featured [[Laurence Olivier]]; she was nominated for the [[BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer]].

Miles appeared in ''The Rehearsal'' (1963) for TV, and then played Vera from Manchester in [[Joseph Losey]]'s ''[[The Servant (1963 film)|The Servant]]'' (1963), and "thrust sexual appetite into British films" according to [[David Thomson (film critic)|David Thomson]].<ref name="Thomson"/>

Miles was in a short film directed by her brother, "The Six-Sided Triangle" (1963), and a feature film directed by and starring [[Laurence Harvey]], ''[[The Ceremony (1963 film)|The Ceremony]]'' (1963). She did ''[[Ring Round the Moon]]'' (1964) for TV.

On 16 June 1965, [[Ken Annakin]]'s ''[[Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines]],'' a [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]] [[Period film|period]] [[comedy film]] revolving around the craze of early aviation ''circa'' 1910, was released. A pompous newspaper magnate ([[Robert Morley]]) is convinced, by his daughter (Miles) and her fiancé ([[James Fox]]), to organise an air race from London to Paris. A large sum of money is offered to the winner, hence it attracts a variety of characters to participate. The film received positive reviews, described as funny, colourful, and clever, capturing the early enthusiasm for aviation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0DEEDF173BE13ABC4F52DFB066838E679EDE|title=Movie Review: Those Magnificent Men In their Flying Machines (1965)|last=Crowther|first=Bosley|date=17 June 1965|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1964/film/reviews/those-magnificent-men-in-their-flying-machines-or-how-i-flew-from-london-to-paris-in-25-hours-11-minutes-1200420712/|title=Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines – Or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes|date=1965-01-01|website=Variety|language=en|access-date=2019-12-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/movies/magnificent-men-flying/review/120398|title=Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines{{spaced ndash}}Or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes: TV Guide Review|website=TV Guide.com|access-date=18 February 2010}}</ref>

She was in ''[[Time Lost and Time Remembered]]'' (1966), directed by [[Desmond Davis]].

In 1966, Miles gained another BAFTA nomination, this time as [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Actress]]. She had a "peripheral" part in [[Michelangelo Antonioni]]'s ''[[Blowup]]''.<ref name="Thomson" /> At Antonioni's death in 2007, she referred to him as "a rogue and a tyrant and a brilliant man".<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6923785.stm "Blow-Up director Antonioni dies"], BBC News, 31 July 2007</ref>

===Robert Bolt===
After acting in several plays from 1966 to 1969, Miles was cast as Rosy in the leading title role of [[David Lean]]'s ''[[Ryan's Daughter]]'' (1970). It was critically savaged, which discouraged Lean from making a film for some years, despite Miles's performance gaining her an [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Oscar nomination]] and an Oscar win for John Mills, and the film making a substantial profit. In Terence Pettigrew's biography of [[Trevor Howard]], Miles describes the filming of ''Ryan's Daughter'' in Ireland in 1969. She recalls, "My main memory is of sitting on a hilltop in a caravan at six in the morning in the rain. There was no other actor or member of the crew around me. I would sit there getting mad, waiting for either the rain to stop or someone to arrive. Film-acting is so horrifically belittling."<ref>Terence Pettigrew ''Trevor Howard: A Personal Biography'', London: Peter Owen, 2001, p.149</ref>

Miles married the film's screenwriter, [[Robert Bolt]]. He wrote and directed ''[[Lady Caroline Lamb (film)|Lady Caroline Lamb]]'' (1972) starring Miles in the title role.<ref>Movies: Bolt of lighting hits the screen...
Martin, James. Chicago Tribune 4 Mar 1973: e10.</ref> She then appeared in ''[[The Hireling]]'' (1973).

On 11 February 1973, while filming ''[[The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing]]'', aspiring screenwriter [[David Whiting]], who was briefly one of her lovers,<ref>Christopher Hastings [https://web.archive.org/web/20120205072949/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3560030/Sarah-Miles-Sex-spooks-and-Steven-Spielberg.html "Sarah Miles: Sex, Spooks and Steven Spielberg"], ''The Sunday Telegraph'', 7 September 2008</ref> was found dead in her motel room. She was acquitted of culpability in his death.<ref name="planet"/><ref name="rosenbaum">Ron Rosenbaum, "The Corpse as Big as the Ritz", ''The Secret Parts of Fortune'' (reprinted from ''Esquire'')</ref> Miles later commented: "It went on for six months. Murder? Suicide? Murder! Suicide! Murder! Suicide! And, gradually, the truth came out, which I'm not going to speak about, but it certainly wasn't me. I had actually saved the man from three suicide attempts, so why would I want to murder him? I really can't imagine."<ref name=planet/> This led to the end of her first marriage to Bolt.

===Television===
Miles starred in some TV movies: ''[[Great Expectations (1974 film)|Great Expectations]]'' (1974), ''[[Requiem for a Nun]]'' (1975), and ''[[Dynasty (1976 film)|Dynasty]]'' (1976) as well as the Spanish film ''[[Bride to Be (film)|Bride to Be]]'' (1975).

Her performance as Anne Osborne in ''[[The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (film)|The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea]]'' (1976) was nominated for a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama|Golden Globe]].

Miles appeared in ''[[The Big Sleep (1978 film)|The Big Sleep]]'' (1978), ''[[Venom (1981 film)|Venom]]'' (1981), ''[[Walter and June]]'' (1983), ''[[Ordeal by Innocence (film)|Ordeal by Innocence]]'' (1984), ''[[Steaming (film)|Steaming]]'' (1985), ''[[Harem (1986 film)|Harem]]'' (1986) and ''[[Queenie (miniseries)|Queenie]]'' (1987).

She received great acclaim for ''Hope and Glory''. Interviewer [[Lynn Barber]] wrote of Miles' appearances in ''[[Hope and Glory (film)|Hope and Glory]]'', ''[[White Mischief (film)|White Mischief]]'', and her two earliest films that she "has that Vanessa Redgrave quality of seeming to have one skin fewer than normal people, so that the emotion comes over unmuffled and bare."<ref name="Barber"/>

Filming ''White Mischief'' on location in [[Kenya]] in 1987, Miles worked for the second and last time with [[Trevor Howard]], who had a supporting role, but was by then seriously ill from alcoholism. The company wanted to fire him, but Miles was determined that Howard's distinguished film career would not end that way. In an interview with Terence Pettigrew for his biography of Howard, she describes how she gave an ultimatum to the executives, threatening to quit the production if they got rid of him. The gamble worked. Howard was kept on. It was his last major film; he died the following January.

===Later career===
She appeared in ''[[A Ghost in Monte Carlo]]'' (1990), ''[[The Touch (1992 film)|The Touch]]'' (1992), ''[[Dandelion Dead]]'' (1994), ''Jurij'' (2001) and ''The Accidental Detective'' (2004).

She most recently (2008) appeared in ''[[Well (play)|Well]]'' at the [[Trafalgar Studios]] and the [[Apollo Theatre]] opposite [[Natalie Casey]].{{citation needed|date=February 2012}}