Mia Kirshner
(born January 25, 1975) is an actress who works in
movies and television series.
Early life: Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, she
is the daughter of Sheldon Kirshner, a journalist for
The Canadian Jewish News, who was born in a displaced
person camp in Germany in 1946. He met her mother, Etti,
a Bulgarian Jewish refugee, in Israel. She is a
granddaughter of Holocaust survivors.
Canadian actress Mia Kirshner is known in her native
country and beyond for her portrayals of moderately to
deeply troubled young women who often harbor dark
secrets. Born in Toronto in 1976, where she was raised
by a journalist father and a teacher mother, Kirshner
broke into films in 1993. That year, she starred as a
bad seed teenager intent on seducing her mother's
boyfriend in Cadillac Girls and played a dominatrix in
Denys Arcand's Love and Human Remains.
Education: Mia Kirshner studied Russian
literature and 20th-century movie industry at McGill
University in Montreal.
Career: In 1993 she played a dominatrix in Denys
Arcand's movie Love and Human Remains and won a Genie
nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a
Supporting Role. The year after she starred in Atom
Egoyan's Exotica. In 1995, she auditioned for the role
of Jenny in the controversial Larry Clark film Kids
(1995), however lost out to Chloe Sevigny.
Kirshner had another career breakthrough the following
year playing a young stripper with a surprising past
identity in Atom Egoyan's widely acclaimed Exotica. The
actress' work in the celebrated film attracted the
notice of American casting agents, who promptly cast her
in supporting roles in Murder in the First (1995) and
the Southern gothic coming-of-age tale The Grass Harp
(also 1995).
Although she subsequently won lead roles in The Crow:
City of Angels (1996) -- in which she played up her dark
Goth looks as the tattoo artist who befriends Vincent
Perez -- and Mad City (1997), which cast her as
journalist Dustin Hoffman's intern, Kirshner has had
difficulty making a name for herself in Hollywood.
She continues to appear in both lead and supporting
roles in such independent and/or small features as
Saturn (1999), a drama that cast her as the hedonistic
girlfriend of a young man (Scott Caan) caring for his
Alzheimer's-stricken father. Keeping busy well into the
new millennium, Kirshner would later appear in the
real-time television series 24, as well as Not Another
Teen Movie (both 2001), a parody of the recent wave of
high school themed films.
Kirshner appeared in the first three episodes of 24 as
bisexual terrorist Mandy in 2001. She would later
reprise the role for the second season's finale and in
the latter half of the show's fourth series.
In 2006, she starred in Brian De Palma's movie The Black
Dahlia, alongside Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett
Johansson and Hilary Swank. Kirshner plays a young
actress, Elizabeth Short, who was horrifically murdered
in 1947.
Kirshner has portrayed Jenny Schecter on the hit
Showtime series, The L Word since the show began in
2004. She recently reprised her role in season four,
which began airing on Showtime on January 7. She also
appeared in Marilyn Manson's 2001 music video for
"Tainted Love".
Humanitarian work: She has finished working on
the book I Live Here. In the book, women and children
refugees from places such as Chechnya, Juárez (Mexico)
and Africa will tell their life stories. It will be
published in Canada in 2008. It was supported and funded
by Amnesty International, which will receive proceeds
from the book.
Trivia: Kirshner was ranked #43 on the Maxim Hot
100 Women of 2002. She and Beverly Polcyn were nominated
for Best Kiss at the 2002 MTV Movie Awards for Not
Another Teen Movie.
Mia Kirshner Profile,
Photos, Biography, Films, Quotes, Wallpapers, Contact
address and more at WhoABC.com Celebrities Guide.
Find
everything about your favorite celebrities women and
men, official sites, and contact addresses, Browse photo
galleries of famous actors, actresses, models, and other
celebrities. Get the latest on your favorite hottest
actors and acctresses with entertainment news, celebrity
biography, profile, photos, autographs, wallpapers,
quotes, films .. and much more.
Browse
Celebrities and Models
We offer you a huge selection of Free High Quality Desktop Wallpapers, Biographies, also we provide a mailing address and contact details for requesting autographs and sending fan mail.
Snoron Celebrities and Models Wallpapers 
