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.
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In 1979, Miracle appeared in the episode "Now You See Her..." of the NBC television crime drama series The Eddie Capra Mysteries.
Directing career
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In 2009, Miracle wrote and directed the short drama film Changeling (a.k.a. Dawnland).