Ruthie Ann Miles
Ruthie Ann Miles (born c. 1983) is an American actress and singer best known for her roles in musical theatre, including her starring role as Imelda Marcos in Here Lies Love off-Broadway (2013), for which she won a Theatre World Award and a Lucille Lortel Award, and as Lady Thiang on Broadway in The King and I (2015), for which she won a Tony Award.
Life and career[edit]
Miles was born in Arizona and raised by her Korean mother, Esther Wong, a music teacher, first in Korea and then in Honolulu, Hawaii. She attended Kaimuki High School, graduating in 2001,[1] and then Southern Oregon University before earning her bachelor's degree at Palm Beach Atlantic University. She received a master's at New York University.[2] She is married to Jonathan Blumenstein and has one daughter, Abigail.[1]
Miles played Christmas Eve and other characters in Avenue Q off-Broadway for two years beginning in 2011. She starred as Imelda Marcos in Here Lies Love, in 2013 off-Broadway at The Public Theatre, winning a Theatre World Award and a Lucille Lortel Award. Miles has appeared in national tours of Sweeney Todd (as Adolfo Pirelli) and Annie.[2] She has played numerous roles in regional theatre and played a doctor in the film I Am Michael.[3][4]
Miles has received glowing reviews for her role as Lady Thiang in the 2015 Broadway revival of The King and I, with Ben Brantley of The New York Times writing that she "turns 'Something Wonderful' into an exquisite expression of romantic realism that could be the show's anthem."[5] Another critic called her
the one featured performer in a play or musical, on or off-Broadway, who I thought was giving the best performance this season ... [her] Lady Thiang is more empathetic than in other productions I have seen. ... People who see this King and I will think about Lady Thiang. They will think about what she knows, what she feels.[6]
She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Ting, Yu Shing. "Taking Imelda to the Big Apple", Midweek.com, July 23, 2013, accessed June 1, 2015
- ^ a b Kaufman, Joanne. "A Miles in Those Shoes: A Cultural Conversation With Ruthie Ann Miles", The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2014, accessed June 1, 2015
- ^ Miles, Ruthie Ann. Resume, Ruthie Ann Miles, accessed June 1, 2015
- ^ a b "Ruthie Ann Miles", Playbill Vault, accessed June 1, 2015
- ^ Brantley, Ben. "Review: The King and I, Back on Broadway", The New York Times, April 16, 2015
- ^ David, Cara Joy. "Something Wonderful: The King and I's Ruthie Ann Miles Talks Tonys", The Huffington Post, May 28, 2015
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- 1983 births
- American musical theatre actresses
- American mezzo-sopranos
- Actresses from Arizona
- Living people
- New York University alumni
- Tony Award winners
- 21st-century American actresses
- American people of Korean descent
- Actresses from Honolulu, Hawaii
- Palm Beach Atlantic University alumni
- Actresses of Korean descent
