Joanna Miles, the Emmy Award-winning American actress, was born on March 6, 1940 in Nice, France to expatriate American abstract painter Jeanne Miles and French painter-museum curator Johannes Schiefer. Escaping the war, she was relocated to the United States in 1941. She graduated from the progressive Putney School in 1958. She began her career in New York, acting in a number of plays, television shows and films. On receiving numerous rewards, she reached the apogee of her career, playing "Laura Wingfield" in the 1973 TV production of "The Glass Menagerie", with co-stars Katharine Hepburn, Sam Waterston and Michael Moriarty, for which Mrs. Miles and Michael Moriarty won Emmy Awards. In 1990, for nine years, Mrs. Miles founded and was the Artistic Director of the Playwright's Group in LA. She also is the vice-president of "Brandman Productions". Mrs. Miles has continued to work steadily in TV, films and theater. She is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio and the Motion Picture Academy. Most recently, in 2011, she starred in "Women In Shorts", at the Working Stage Theater and, in 2012, among a few other play readings around town "There Is No They" at the Road Theater. An ex-New Yorker, she lives in LA with her husband, writer, producer and novelist Michael Brandman. Her son, Miles Brandman, is a film writer, director and playwright. Her stepson, Steven J. Brandman, is a television producer.
