Biography for
Mia Kirshner More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

25 January 1975, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Height

5' 3" (1.60 m)

Trade Mark

Often plays deeply troubled characters

Trivia

Played Sarah Logan in the pilot for the TV show "D.C." (2000) but the role was later re-cast.

The "Stuff" magazine cover she did with Chyler Leigh was the first time that magazine ever featured multiple people on the cover.

Was raised in Toronto by her father, who is a journalist, and mother, who is a teacher.

She is a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. Her father, Sheldon, a journalist for The Canadian Jewish News, was born in a displaced person camp in Germany in 1946. He met her mother, Etti, a Bulgarian Jewish refugee, in Israel. Kirshner has a younger sister.

Ranked #38 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).

Has written a book called 'I Live Here'. "I Live Here is a paper documentary - an intimate journey to humanitarian crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi.".