The swimmer who was the primary sufferer within the 1975 blockbuster Jaws has died. 

Susan Backlinie died in her residence in California on the age of 77, in line with her agent. Her demise was first reported by The Daily Jaws web site.

The opening scene of Steven Spielberg's traditional options Ms Backlinie operating alongside the seashore and earlier than diving into the water and thin dipping.

Her character Chrissie Watkins is then immediately pulled underneath the water and he or she screams as she is violently attacked by an unseen nice white shark.

Ms Backlinie had been a champion swimmer when forged within the movie. She informed The Palm Beach Post in 2015 that Spielberg informed her: "When your scene is finished, I need everybody underneath the seats with the popcorn and bubblegum.

"I think we did that," she mentioned.

In the documentary, Jaws: The Inside Story, Spielberg known as Ms Backlinie's sequence "one of the most dangerous" stunts he is ever directed.

"She was actually being tugged left and right by 10 men on one rope and 10 men on the other back to the shore, and that's what caused her to move like that."

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Ms Backlinie labored with Mr Spielberg once more within the 1979 parody warfare movie 1941, during which she spoofed her Jaws character.

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