Born in Ingatestone, England. The daughter of a wealthy businessman, she enrolled at 15 at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made her screen debut in 1962 in the role of a nymphet student who seduces schoolmaster Laurence Olivier in TERM OF TRIAL. She went on to play seductive roles in other films and developed into one of the most intriguing young leads of the British cinema of the 1960s and 70s in such films as THE SERVANT (1963), RYAN'S DAUGHTER (1970), LADY CAROLINE LAMB (1972) and THE HIRELING (1973). Some of her other notable credits are THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES... (1965), BLOWUP (1966), THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING (1973), THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA (1976), THE BIG SLEEP (1978) and HOPE AND GLORY (1987). In the late 1980s, she began working a lot in European film and TV productions. In 1967 she married playwright screenwriter-director, Robert Bolt. They divorced in 1976 but remarried in 1988 and remained married until his death in 1995. She is the sister of director, producer and screenwriter Christopher Miles.  Nominated for Actress 1970: RYAN'S DAUGHTER 1 nomination