Along with being a stuntwoman specializing in swimming work, she was also an animal trainer. She currently works as a computer accountant in her home of Ventura, California.\n', '

Backlinie\'s appearance in Jaws took three days to shoot, with Backlinie strapped into a harness while the crew struggled to get the desired effects. Backlinie also appeared in Spielberg\'s film 1941 parodying her role in 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.\n', '

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.\n', '

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