Occupation Actress, Director Years active 1975-present | Name Irene Miracle Role Film actress | |
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Full Name Klara Irene Miracle Awards Golden Globe Award for Best New Star of the Year – Actress Movies Similar People Brad Davis, Billy Hayes, Bo Hopkins, Leigh McCloskey, Alan Parker | ||
Irene Miracle (born January 24, 1954 in Stillwater, Oklahoma) is an American film and television actress and director.
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Early life
Miracle was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and is of Scots-Irish, Russian, French and Osage descent.
Acting career
Her first film appearance was as a murder victim in Night Train Murders (1975), an Italian Last House on the Left-clone. Her most prestigious role was in Alan Parker's Midnight Express (1978), a worldwide box office success. For her role as the girlfriend of the incarcerated protagonist, she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Female. Miracle followed that film with another major role in Dario Argento's Inferno (1980), as a woman who comes to believe the New York City apartment building she lives in also houses a centuries-old witch. Since then, she has continued her acting work, while also writing, directing and producing.
In 1979, Miracle appeared in the episode "Now You See Her..." of the NBC television crime drama series The Eddie Capra Mysteries.
Directing career
In 2009, Miracle wrote and directed the short drama film Changeling (a.k.a. Dawnland).