answers: Susan Backlinie
context: Bess Armstrong Elizabeth Key "Bess" Armstrong (born December 11, 1953) is an American film, stage and television actress. She is best known for her roles in films "The Four Seasons" (1981), "High Road to China" (1983), "Jaws 3-D" (1983), and "Nothing in Common" (1986). Armstrong also starred in the ABC drama series "My So-Called Life" and had lead roles in a number of made-for-television films. Armstrong was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Louise Allen (née Parlange), who taught at Bryn Mawr, and Alexander Armstrong, an English teacher at the Gilman School. She attended the Bryn Mawr School for </s> "Jaws". Instead of being attacked by a shark during a midnight swim, she's "picked up" by the periscope of a Japanese submarine. The scene has been described as the best joke in what is otherwise widely considered one of Spielberg's least successful films. Backlinie also appeared in the 1977 film "Day of the Animals", regarded by some as a "Jaws" clone about nature gone bad. When "Jaws" co-star Richard Dreyfuss saw a daily of her performance of being attacked by the shark, he told her it absolutely terrified him. Contrary to rumor, Backlinie’s startled reaction and screams of anguish were </s> Spielberg not to pursue the project. Both Wayne and Heston felt the film was unpatriotic. Spielberg recalled, "[Wayne] was really curious and so I sent him the script. He called me the next day and said he felt it was a very un-American movie, and I shouldn't waste my time making it. He said, 'You know, that was an important war, and you're making fun of a war that cost thousands of lives at Pearl Harbor. Don't joke about World War II'." Susan Backlinie reprised her role as the first victim in Spielberg's "Jaws" by appearing as the woman seen
question: who was the girl in the opening scene of jaws