WEEKI WACHEE GARDENS, Fla. — Susan Backlinie, the famed "Jaws" actress and stuntwoman who played the shark's first victim, has died. She was 77 years old. Her agent confirmed to The Daily Jaws, a ...

Susan Backlinie, an actor known for playing the first victim in Steven Spielberg classic Jaws, has died aged 77. Backlinie had performed on screen throughout the Seventies and Eighties, with her most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Susan Backlinie, whose iconic opening death scene set the tone of terror for “Jaws,” died ...

Susan Jane Backlinie was an American actress and stuntwoman. She was known for playing Chrissie Watkins, the shark attack victim in the opening beach party scene of Steven Spielberg's 1975 film ...

Susan Backlinie in a scene from the film 'Two-Minute Warning', 1976. (Photo by Universal / Getty Images) So terrifying is this moment — and so identified has it become with the film that surrounds it ...

Susan Backlinie, who played the first shark attack victim in Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws,” has died. She was 77. Backlinie died Saturday morning at her California home due to a heart attack, Convention ...

Susan Backlinie, famously known as the first victim in the 1975 film, “Jaws,” has died, Fox News Digital can confirm. Her husband of 30 years, Harvey Swindall, says her passing was “very unexpected.” ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Susan Backlinie, famously known as the first victim in the 1975 film "Jaws," has died, Fox News Digital can confirm. Her husband of 30 years, Harvey Swindall, said her death was ...

Actress Susan Backlinie, a swimmer and stuntwoman who played the young skinny-dipper who became the first shark victim in Steven Spielberg’s epic 1975 film, “Jaws,” died Saturday. She was 77.

VENTURA, Calif. (KABC) -- Susan Backlinie, who played the first shark attack victim in Steven Spielberg's 1975 film "Jaws," died over the weekend. She was 77. According to The Daily Jaws, a website ...