Theater and film career
Following her 1960 debut, Miner appeared on Broadway in[13] The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963) and Butterflies Are Free (1972) (in each as an understudy); the 1973 revival of The Women; the 1976 revival of The Heiress with Jane Alexander; the 1980 revival of Watch on the Rhine, by Lillian Hellman; the 1983–1984 Circle in the Square Theatre revival of Heartbreak House, with Rex Harrison, Philip Bosco, Rosemary Harris, Amy Irving, Dana Ivey, and Stephen McHattie; and the Franco Zeffirelli productions of Terrence McNally's adaptation of The Lady of the Camellias (1963) and Eduardo De Filippo's Saturday Sunday Monday (1974).
She also appeared in Shakespeare on Broadway, as Emilia in the American National Theater and Academy production of Othello (1970), starring Moses Gunn; and as Juliet's nurse in director Theodore Mann's Circle in the Square production of Romeo and Juliet (1977).[1][13] Other theater work included Major Barbara.[1]
In 1986, Miner appeared at the off-Broadway Lucille Lortel Theatre as Gertrude Stein in the play Gertrude Stein and a Companion, by Win Wells, with Marian Seldes as Alice B. Toklas.[14] Miner and Seldes reprised the roles in a June 1987 television version for Bravo.[15] Miner also appeared for six seasons in repertory roles at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut.[1]
Miner played Lenny Bruce's mother, Sally Marr, in the Bob Fosse film Lenny (1974) with Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce and Valerie Perrine as Honey Bruce. She also appeared in The Swimmer (1968), Willie & Phil (1980), Endless Love (1981), and as the Mother Superior in Mermaids (1990). Her latter-day work in television included an episode of Law & Order.[1]
