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Susan Backlinie, the stuntperson and actress who as a young skinny-dipper out for a nighttime swim off the coast of Amity Island became the shark's first victim in Steven Spielberg's Jaws, has died.
May 12, 2024 · Susan Backlinie, the stuntperson and actress who as a young skinny-dipper out for a nighttime swim off the coast of Amity Island became the shark’s first victim in Steven Spielberg ’s Jaws ...
Jun 30, 2015 · The actress who played Chrissie, Susan Backlinie, was no stranger to the briny deep. The then-28-year-old was a stuntwoman who specialized in animal training when she accepted the pivotal role in ...
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Jun 28, 2018 · It’s a great scene not just because of the editing or the primeval music by John Williams, but because Backlinie sells it so well, especially that final gulp as she vanishes beneath the water for one final time. Backlinie says that the water was very cold and they’d probably spend two to three hours at a time getting shots.
May 13, 2024 · In Steven Spielberg’s 1975 spine-tingling movie, Backlinie’s Chrissie rises from a beach campfire party at dusk to go skinny-dipping with a drunk guy who comically collapses in the sand. But her carefree swim is soon interrupted from below as the great white shark pulls her writhing and screaming into the depths.
May 14, 2024 · Fifty summers ago, 27-year-old stuntwoman Susan Backlinie plunged into the waters off Cow Bay on a three-day contract with Universal Studios to play the doomed skinny dipper Chrissie Watkins in Jaws. For her brief but horrifying performance as the killer shark’s first victim, Ms. Backlinie, who died May 11 at 77, became an enduring screen ...
May 12, 2024 · Actress Susan Backlinie of Jaws fame died Saturday at the age of 77. Backlinie died of a heart attack in her California home, her agent Sean Clark told reporters. Jaws’s iconic opening scene ...
