Rebecca Miller

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Biography

Rebecca Augusta Miller is an accomplished actress and director, and the youngest daughter of the famous playwright, Arthur Miller. Following her marriage, her title became Lady Day-Lewis, as wife of her famous knighted husband.

Rebecca was born in 1963, two years after the death of her paternal grandmother Augusta (Barnett) Miller, and so was named after her. Rebecca's mother is Arthur's third wife, Inge Morath.

Rebecca grew up in Roxbury, Connecticut, and occasionally at the family's apartment at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City.

Rebecca graduated from Yale, and became a painter and sculptor.

In 1984 she decided to become a filmmaker, and so then trained as an actress. Her notable roles included The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988), starring Jack Lemmon, and Alan J. Pakula's Consenting Adults (1992).

Rebecca quit acting to make her own films, and so then her first writer-director work, Angela, won the Filmmaker's Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival in 1995.

Rebecca met actor Daniel Day-Lewis in 1995 while working on Angela. They reconnected in 1996 on the set of The Crucible, where Rebecca was shooting production stills. They married a few months later in a small cermony in Vermont. Daniel had also come from a literary family. The couple has two sons,

1. Roman and
2. Cashel

The family lives in the Wiclow Mountains of Ireland, and Roxbury, and New York.

Rebecca was at her father's side when he died in Roxburby, and she became Arthur Miller's literary executor.

Sources

• Susan C. W. Abbotson. Critical Companion to Arthur Miller: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work p 432

• Wikipedia article: Rebecca Miller