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Mira Sorvino

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  • Producer
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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.
BornSeptember 28, 1967
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  • Won 1 Oscar
    • 18 wins & 22 nominations total

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Mira Sorvino and Beanie Feldstein in The Assassination of Monica Lewinsky (2021)
Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, and E.J. Callahan in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
Mira Sorvino and Stephen Dorff in Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006)
Mira Sorvino in Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006)
Mira Sorvino in Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006)
Mira Sorvino in Beautiful Girls (1996)
Mira Sorvino and Matt Dillon in Beautiful Girls (1996)
Mira Sorvino and Sarah Hyland in Modern Family (2009)
Mira Sorvino and Sarah Hyland in Modern Family (2009)
Mira Sorvino, Sarah Hyland, and Margaret Judson in Modern Family (2009)
Mira Sorvino and India Eisley in Look Away (2018)
Mira Sorvino and William Hurt in Condor (2018)

Known for:

Woody Allen and Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Mighty Aphrodite
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  • Linda Ash
  • 1995
Mira Sorvino and Chow Yun-Fat in The Replacement Killers (1998)
The Replacement Killers
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  • Meg Coburn
  • 1998
Robin Williams in The Final Cut (2004)
The Final Cut
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  • Delila
  • 2004
Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
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  • Romy
  • 1997

Credits

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Actress

  • The Goat
    • Anna Bickering
    • Completed
    • 2023
  • Atypical Pirate
    • In Production
  • Fog of War
    • Post-production
  • Dodie & Cheryl Get Hitched
    • Dodie Pickerling
    • Pre-production
  • Home Safe
    • Kiera (voice)
    • 2022
  • Mira Sorvino, Jim Caviezel, Bill Camp, Kurt Fuller, Eduardo Verástegui, and José Zúñiga in Sound of Freedom (2022)
    Sound of Freedom
    • Katherine Ballard
    • 2022
  • Frank Grillo in Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend (2022)
    Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
    • Annita
    • 2022
  • After Ever Happy (2022)
    After Ever Happy
    • Carol
    • 2022
  • Mira Sorvino, Courteney Cox, and Greg Kinnear in Shining Vale (2022)
    Shining Vale
    • Rosemary
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • McKaley Miller and Alex Kersting in Butter (2022)
    Butter
    • Marian
    • 2022
  • Beanie Feldstein in American Crime Story (2016)
    American Crime Story
    • Marcia Lewis
    • TV Series
    • 2021
  • Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Josephine Langford in After We Fell (2021)
    After We Fell
    • Carol
    • 2021
  • Mira Sorvino and Richard Dreyfuss in Crime Story (2021)
    Crime Story
    • Nick
    • 2021
  • Sean Astin, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Kimia Behpoornia, Indiana Massara, Philip Solomon, and Chris Carpenter in Hero Mode (2021)
    Hero Mode
    • Kate Mayfield
    • 2021
  • Mira Sorvino and Tom Skerritt in East of the Mountains (2021)
    East of the Mountains
    • Renee Givens
    • 2021
  • Mira Sorvino, Peter Coyote, Kevin Sorbo, and Austyn Johnson in The Girl Who Believes in Miracles (2021)
    The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
    • Bonnie Hopkins
    • 2021
  • Most Guys Are Losers (2020)
    Most Guys Are Losers
    • Amy
    • 2020
  • The Expecting (2020)
    The Expecting
    • Dr. Green
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • Hollywood (2020)
    Hollywood
    • Jeanne Crandall
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2020

Producer

  • Dodie & Cheryl Get Hitched
    • producer
    • Pre-production
  • Mira Sorvino and Richard Dreyfuss in Crime Story (2021)
    Crime Story
    • executive producer
    • 2021
  • Do You Believe? (2015)
    Do You Believe?
    • associate producer
    • 2015
  • Mira Sorvino in The Presence (2010)
    The Presence
    • executive producer
    • 2010
  • Laura Kirk in Lisa Picard Is Famous (2000)
    Lisa Picard Is Famous
    • producer
    • 2000
  • Amongst Friends (1993)
    Amongst Friends
    • associate producer
    • 1993

Soundtrack

  • The Triumph of Love (2001)
    The Triumph of Love
    • performer: "Forêts paisibles"
    • 2001
  • Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino in Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996)
    Norma Jean & Marilyn
    • performer: "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend", "I Wanna Be Loved by You"
    • TV Movie
    • 1996
  • Mira Sorvino, Carla Gugino, Alison Elliott, and Rya Kihlstedt in The Buccaneers (1995)
    The Buccaneers
    • performer: "Up in a Balloon" (uncredited)
    • TV Mini Series
    • 1995
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Summer of Sam
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Summer of Sam
Romy & Michele's High School Reunion: 15th Anniversary Edition
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Romy & Michele's High School Reunion: 15th Anniversary Edition
Romy & Michele's High School Reunion: 15th Anniversary Edition
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Romy & Michele's High School Reunion: 15th Anniversary Edition
Like Dandelion Dust
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Like Dandelion Dust
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Personal details

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  • Alternative name
    • Bert D'Angelo's Daughter
  • Height
    • 5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
  • Born
    • September 28, 1967
    • New York City, New York, USA
  • Spouse
    • Christopher BackusJune 11, 2004 - present (4 children)
  • Children
      Holden Backus
  • Parents
      Paul Sorvino
  • Relatives
      Michael Sorvino(Sibling)
  • Other works
    Played Ersilia Drei in the play "Naked". (Classic Stage Company, New York City)
  • Publicity listings
    • 17 Interviews
    • 14 Articles
    • 9 Pictorials
    • 15 Magazine Cover Photos

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    Speaks Mandarin Chinese and French fluently.
  • Quotes
    There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the East Coast educated person and wants to be a pin-up girl in garages across America...there's a side that wants to wear the pink angora bikini!
  • Salary
    • At First Sight
      (1999)
      $3,000,000

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