Biography for
Mia Riverton More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

22 November 1978, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Nickname

Little Es
Mimi

Height

5' 6" (1.68 m)

Mini Biography

Mia Riverton was born in Columbus, Ohio and grew up in Indianapolis with her scientist parents and a younger brother, Daniel. While performing in local theatrical and musical productions, she caught the attention of a talent agent and was soon landing commercials, TV and theater roles on a regular basis. Mia continued her artistic pursuits throughout her childhood, winning numerous competitions and performing worldwide as an actress, singer, dancer, pianist and violist. Despite her many extracurricular activities, Mia maintained a straight-A average at Park Tudor School and won national academic awards for science, math, writing and languages.

In her senior year, she was flown to the White House to be honored by Bill Clinton as a Presidential Scholar. After finishing high school, Mia attended Harvard University, where she performed in a number of productions and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Cum Laude after only six semesters.

Mia recently moved to Los Angeles and has been working steadily in film, television and theater. Her hobbies include kickboxing, yoga, dance, horseback riding, piano, guitar, songwriting and recording.

IMDb Mini Biography By: lennona1980@hotmail.com

Spouse

David Alpert

(20 August 2007 - present) 1 child

Trivia

Grew up in Indianapolis.

Starred in national tour of Amahl and the Night Visitors. She played Amahl, a boy.

She is a mixture of ethnicities, including Chinese, Irish, Cherokee and Spanish.

Graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University.

Speaks French and Chinese.

Has done commercial work and print modeling for numerous companies and magazines.

Went to Park Tudor School in Indianapolis.

Has performed as a singer at numerous concert halls, including Carnegie Hall in New York and the Kodak Theatre in LA.

Sang with the Harvard-Radcliffe Callbacks, a college a cappella group.

In college, she ran an afterschool volunteer program for kids in the Mission Hill housing project in Boston.

Member of Circle X Theatre Company and East West Players in Los Angeles.

Started a production company (Blanc de Chine Films).

Got straight As at Harvard, graduated Phi Beta Kappa a year early.

Founded and runs Harvardwood, the nonprofit arts and entertainment group for Harvard alums - www.harvardwood.org

She is also a singer-songwriter. She wrote and performed a song for the RED DOORS soundtrack, "I Know".

Wrote and produced a pilot script for CBS based on "Red Doors", along with her partners (Georgia Lee and Jane Chen).