Miller's Time

Great looks and a famous father might be Rebecca Miller's most obvious assets, but Arthur's daughter, as it happens, can act too. This fall she drew critical praise for her role as an eccentric American heiress in the regrettably becalmed Wind. Now she's co-starring with Kevin Kline and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in Alan J. Pakula's Consenting Adults, with another role in Paul Mazursky's The Pickle, to be released this spring.

The only child of her father's marriage to photographer Inge Morath, Rebecca filled her childhood with endless games of makebelieve on her parents' 350-acre Connecticut farm. After studying painting at the Skowhegan School and Yale, she spent several years as a working artist before changing careers at the suggestion of agent Sam Cohn. "I always had this idea that everyone had a shape surrounding them that was their potential, that was like a puppy's skin. And the obligation was to fill it out," she explains. "Many people never do, but I'm trying to."

BLAISE SIMPSON