A versatile, award-winning actress who goes by her real name, "Miracle"--a French Arcadian line that went west with the covered wagons--Irene Miracle was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma, but has made the world her home: San Francisco, Kenya, Rome, Paris, Madrid, Los Angeles, Helsinki and Barcelona are some of the places she has made her home.
Irene started her thespian career in Rome, and indeed thinks of that city as her most cherished home. Her acquaintance with 米开朗基罗·安东尼奥尼 led to her first principal film role with director 阿尔多·拉多 and to her running with a fast crowd of European filmmakers. She received worldwide acclaim for her work in the smash 午夜快车 (1978), for which she won the Golden Globe. Since then she has worked in numerous films, television shows and theater productions in the US and Europe, as well as working behind the camera with set design, costume design, development, writing, co-producing and producing.
What's next? She's just acquired the rights to Jane Alison's magnificent novel "The Love Artist", has written the screen adaptation and plans to direct it. The story's hero is the great Roman poet Ovid, as seen through the eyes of a pagan priestess with whom he falls in love while adventuring along the Black Sea. Unfortunately for him, as we know from the story's opening, the Black Sea is where he will eventually be sent into exile for the remainder of his life. This film is a bird's-eye view of his tragic demise. Did his love for the exotic creature, Xenia, trigger the wrath of the moralistic Emperor Augustus? Or did his genius and desire for literary immorality blind him to the dangers of untrustworthy friends? This rich story, in crude movie terms, is a bit of 莫扎特传 (1984) meets 危险关系 (1988) meets 莎翁情史 (1998). The story's atmosphere even echoes 角斗士 (2000), though in this case the arena is the human heart.
Credited with "Thanks" in "The Book Of Lists: Horror" by Scott Bradley, Amy Wallace, and Del Howison (HarperCollins, 2008).
