- Born
- Birth nameKlara Irene Miracle
- Height1.75 m
- 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 Michelangelo Antonioni led to her first principal film role with director Aldo Lado and to her running with a fast crowd of European filmmakers. She received worldwide acclaim for her work in the smash Midnight Express (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.- IMDb mini biography by: F.X. Feeney
- Tall, slender frame
- Credited with "Thanks" in "The Book Of Lists: Horror" by Scott Bradley, Amy Wallace, and Del Howison (HarperCollins, 2008).
- Her famous scene in Midnight Express, exposing her body to boyfriend Brad Davis through Turkish prison office glass, has become legendary, especially after being parodied by Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy.
- Has Osage ancestry.
- [performing nude] Nudity wasn't such a big deal to me. I've always thought of my body as an instrument for my craft.
- [watching her own movies] I tend not to see films I've done. I've never liked seeing myself on the big screen.
- [horror movies] I was never into horror, not the blood and guts kind. Funny, isn't it? Given the films I've ended up doing, my taste often surprises people. I do love Gothic, atmospheric stories, even if they include touches of horror, provided they have a psychological bent, and heart.
- [horror movies] Let's face it, these films are trashy. I wouldn't want my kids watching stuff like that. If I'd had children at the time of making these films I doubt I'd have made them at all.
- [her nude scene in Midnight Express] Ah, well, I admit I had concerns about what my father would think when he saw the film but I've always seen my body as a tool for acting, and in real life we spend much of it naked so I was completely on board to do what was needed to bring truth to the picture.
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