Mira sorvino

Showing all 49 itemsOverview (3)Mini Bio (1)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 Unter Freunden (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 Geliebte 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 Marilyn - Ihr Leben (1996), co-starring with another very intelligent and skilled young actress, Ashley Judd. Forays into action and horror, such as Mimic - Angriff der Killerinsekten (1997) and The Replacement Killers - Die Ersatzkiller (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 und Michele (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.
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Graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with her Bachelor's degree in Chinese (East Asian Languages and Civilizations) (1989). Her honors thesis: "Anti-Africanism in the People's Republic of China" about the Nanjing Anti-African protests, which won the Harvard Hoopes Prize for writing.

Chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1996).

Speaks Mandarin Chinese and French fluently.

Attended and graduated from Dwight Englewood High School in Englewood, New Jersey.

She has a beautiful singing voice. While an undergraduate at Harvard, she appeared as Dulcinea in a student production of "Man of La Mancha" at the Loeb Experimental Theatre (1986). The show was directed by her classmate Joseph Giani. Unfortunately, she came down with a cold during the one week the show ran, and performed with a mug of tea in hand.
friends with Hope Davis; they performed plays for the neighbors.

Was a founding member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones, Harvard University's premier co-ed a cappella group (1985).
June 11, 2004, Mira married actor Christopher Backus in a civil service in Santa Monica, California, and then had their formal ceremony on the island of Capri in Italy. Mira is of half Italian descent, and this was to honor her Italian roots. She wore a gown designed by Giorgio Armani.

Was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997.
her acting debut on an episode of Law Order (1990) (which at that time starred her father, Paul Sorvino). Although her scene was deleted, she still earned a Screen Actors Guild Card for her trouble.

On May 1, 2018 in Los Angeles, California, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation presented "Conversations with Mira Sorvino", a career retrospective, where Mira discussed her many film and television roles. This was a private event for SAG-AFTRA members, but the Foundation videotapes and archives these interviews, and posts them on YouTube as well.
her husband Christopher Backus at West Hollywood's Sur restaurant when he was her server. She tells everyone they met at a charades party because he is much younger than her and she didn't want people to know she was flirting with a younger man.Personal Quotes (14)

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!
) WiseGirls (2002) is not a bad little film. It missed a theatrical distribution by inches. It did well at Sundance, it got a really good reception there. I made one of my very best friends in the world on it, Melora Walters, who plays one of the three waitresses. It's a pretty gripping little story about a waitress who's a former med student who gets caught up in this mob-run joint, and I end up being the house doctor for the local gunshot wounds, and we all become part of sting operation. It's actually kind of a good movie.

[on #MeToo and speaking out against sexual harassment] It was a very tumultuous Fall for all of us who decided to speak out, and we had no idea where it was going to go. And it's blossomed into something that's really powerful, and really beautiful, and I'm proud to be a part of it. I'm proud to be part of a cultural sea of change that I think has the possibility of reducing the sexual misconduct, violence, and rape that has plagued the human species since time began. Because now, there's such a collective voice . . . and we're chipping away at that atmosphere of impunity for predators. So it's starting to be not possible to get away with it. [May 2018]

Not to sound preachy, but something that's missing in life, and often in movies, is goodness. Goodness has lost its cool. It's not a valued attribute anymore to live a decent life like my grandparents, who believed in kindness. I know it sounds naive, but it's taken me a long time to learn that Hollywood is based on dollars and cents, rather than the dream of it. The 'indies' are still living that dream, though.
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