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Mira Katherine Sorvino |
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5' 9" |
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US - United States of America |
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September 28, 1967 |
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Tenafly, New Jersey, USA |
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c/o ICM Artists |
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8942 Wilshire Blvd. |
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Beverly Hills, CA 90211 |
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41 W. 86th St. |
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New York, NY 10024 |
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Biography |
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Mira Katherine Sorvino was born September 28, 1967 in Tenafly, New Jersey. She is the daughter of veteran character actor Paul Sorvino, who discouraged her from becoming an actor. The young Sorvino was intelligent, an avid reader and an exceptional scholar. She attended Harvard, majoring in East Asian Studies, graduated magna cum laude in 1990, and spent a year in Beijing, where she became fluent in Mandarin.
She showed interest in a career in acting from an early age, and moved to New York City, waitressing, auditioning and working at the Tribeca production company of Robert De Niro. She succeeded in getting a little TV work in the early 90s, but got her first film job in the independent gangster movie Amongst Friends (1993), and eventually was casted as the female lead. The movie lead her to two more movies, one a more prominent indie, Barcelona (1994), the other her first Hollywood feature, Quiz Show (1994). Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995) proved her range as a performer and earned her an Oscar 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) (TV) and Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997). Sorvino married Christopher Backus in 2004, and the couple had a daughter later that year.
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