Actress Mira Sorvino

Mira Sorvino
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Mira Katherine Sorvino was born on September 28, 1967 in Manhattan. She is the daughter of Lorraine Davis, an actress turned drama therapist, and veteran character actor Paul Sorvino. Her father's family were Italian immigrants. The young Sorvino was intelligent, an avid reader and an exceptional scholar. Her father discouraged her from becoming an actor, as he knew how the industry often chews up young stars. She attended Harvard, majoring in Chinese, graduating magna cum laude in 1989, largely on the strength of her thesis, a Hoopes Prize-winning thesis on racial conflict in China, written and researched during the year spent in Beijing, which helped her fluency in Mandarin Chinese. However, she showed interest in a career in acting from an early age, and moved to New York City to try her hand in the City's film industry, waitressing, auditioning and working at the Tribeca production company of Robert De Niro. She succeeded in getting a little television work in the early 1990s, but got her first film job in the independent gangster movie Amongst Friends (1993), on which she worked her way up the ladder behind the camera to eventually associate-produce the film, and, more importantly, was eventually cast as the female lead. The indie production was well-received, and Sorvino's performance attracted enough buzz to get her cast in two more movies, one a more prominent indie, Barcelona (1994), the other her first Hollywood feature, Quiz Show (1994), and her skillful performances brought her yet more attention. An exceptionally poised and articulate young woman, she may have seemed inappropriate to play a crazy hooker, but Woody Allen took the chance, and her magnificent performance as the female lead in his Mighty Aphrodite (1995) proved her range as a performer and earned her an Oscar (at the tender age of 29) for Best Supporting Actress. Since winning the Oscar, Sorvino has continued to take a wide range of roles, including another stretch as Marilyn Monroe in Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996), co-starring with another very intelligent and skilled young actress, Ashley Judd. Forays into action and horror, such as Mimic (1997) and The Replacement Killers (1998) show that Sorvino is not above being playful in the film roles she chooses. However, what forever cemented her role in popular culture was her performance as charmingly silly California beach girl Romy White in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), in which she and co-star Lisa Kudrow utter one hilarious absurdity after another. Mira Sorvino married Christopher Backus on June 11, 2004, and the couple have four children. - IMDb Mini Biography
Place of birth
Tenafly, New Jersey, USA Tenafly, New Jersey, USA
Date of birth
28th September 1967
Movies that starred Mira Sorvino (18 in total)
Sound of Freedom poster

Sound of Freedom [2023]

Katherine Ballard
After Ever Happy poster

After Ever Happy [2022]

Carol Young
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend poster

Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend [2022]

Anita Borgatti
After We Fell poster

After We Fell [2021]

Carol Young
Most Guys Are Losers poster

Most Guys Are Losers [2020]

Amy Berzins
Stuber poster

Stuber [2019]

Angie McHenry
Look Away poster

Look Away [2018]

Amy Brennan
No One Would Tell poster

No One Would Tell [2018]

Elizabeth Hanover
Do You Believe? poster

Do You Believe? [2015]

Samantha
The Presence poster

The Presence [2010]

The Woman
Leningrad poster

Leningrad [2009]

Kate Davis
Reservation Road poster

Reservation Road [2007]

Ruth Wheldon
Summer of Sam poster

Summer of Sam [1999]

Dionna
The Replacement Killers poster

The Replacement Killers [1998]

Meg Coburn
Mimic poster

Mimic [1997]

Dr. Susan Tyler
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion poster

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion [1997]

Romy White
Beautiful Girls poster

Beautiful Girls [1996]

Sharon Cassidy
Blue in the Face poster

Blue in the Face [1995]

Young lady
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