Ann Miles
Acting
Biography
Miles got her start in showbiz riding horses as they plunged from a 40-foot-high platform into a pool of water, in Atlantic City N.J. from 1958 to 1966. She later worked as a rodeo stunt rider, gymnast, actress, stylist, and Playboy Bunny. She has modeled in commercials for major brands like Benson-Hedges cigarettes and Coca-Cola. She has also performed stunts for television, movies, and on Broadway. But as a stuntwoman, she's best known for her work in The Exorcist as the demon-possessed child Regan's scary, upside-down, head-first attack down a staircase.
Known For
When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
The Exorcist
A writer who takes a room in a boarding house finds himself haunted by a menacing invisible presence that may be the ghost of a previous tenant or that of his long-lost love.
The Deadly Visitor
A boy with an unhealthy and pathological attachment to his mother becomes increasingly jealous of the new man in her life. After his mother remarries, his rage and misery overwhelm him and he plots to kill his stepfather.