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Sylvia Miles, the lively actress inMidnight CowboyandFarewell, My Lovely, has died. She was 94.
Miles passed away on Wednesday in Manhattan in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, her publicist Mauricio Padilha toldThe New York Times.
The actress earned her first Oscar nomination for her brief performance as Cass, a hooker, in the 1969 filmMidnight Cowboy.
She earned her second nomination in 1975’sFarewell, My Lovelyin which she acted opposite Robert Mitchum for five minutes as an alcoholic, according to theTimes.
Sylvia Miles and Jon Voight inMidnight Cowboy.John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Getty Images
Her last major film role was in 2010’sWall Street: Money Never Sleeps, in which she reprised her role as an aggressive realtor from the originalWall Street.
When she wasn’t acting in films, Miles was earning a reputation as a bawdy partygoer.
Comedian Wayland Flowers even joked she would “attend the opening of an envelope” if she could, according to theTimes.
“I’m always thought of as controversial or avant-garde or erotic or salacious,” Miles toldPEOPLE in 1976. “But there isn’t anybody I know who wouldn’t live my life if they could.”
She continued, “I’m not one of those people that hire a press agent to get invited placed. I get invited because I’m fun. I have a good sense of humor. I look good. I’m not bad to have at a party.”
Miles also wasn’t afraid to show her more outrageous behavior, famously dumping a plate of food over the head of theater critic John Simon at the New York Film Festival in 1973 after he called her a “party girl and gate-crasher” in a review.
Andy Warhol and Sylvia Miles in 1985.Ron Galella/Getty Images
“I have always had the temperament of an actress,” Miles told PEOPLE. “Which is just an excuse for volatile behavior.”
But she never regretted her social life as it served her well due to the connections she made.
“That’s my life — going out, working, getting laid,” she said. “And, you know, going to a party with me is a lot of fun ‘cause I move fast.”
source: people.com
