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name: "Elaine Miles"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/elaine-miles"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "7 April 1960"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T21:11:18.733564+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Elaine Miles

Actor. Born 7 April 1960 in Pendleton, Oregon, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 7 April 1960, Pendleton, Oregon, USA
- **Active:** 1990–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 82 (1), 2020s 85 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3050401, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0587111/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1236658

## Biography

Elaine Miles is an American actress. She was born on 7 April 1960 in Pendleton, Oregon, and is an enrolled citizen of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation with Cayuse and Nez Perce ancestry.

Miles began acting after accompanying her mother, Armenia Miles, to an audition for *Northern Exposure*. She was offered the role of Marilyn Whirlwind, which she played across all six seasons from 1990 to 1995. The series brought her a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Subsequent film roles include Lucy in *Smoke Signals* (1998), the housekeeper in *Mad Love* (1995) and Florence in *The Last of Us* (2023). She has also appeared in *Wyvern* (2009) and other independent films, and performs traditional dancing and stand-up comedy.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Last of Us* (2023), Fi1m 85, as Florence — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-last-of-us.md)
- *Northern Exposure* (1990), Fi1m 82, as Marilyn Whirlwind — [page](https://film.one/tv/northern-exposure.md)

## Also known for

- *Mad Love* (1995), Housekeeper
- *Smoke Signals* (1998), Lucy
- *Juanita* (2019), Mountain
- *Wyvern* (2009), Deputy Barnes

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