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Mira Katherine Sorvino (born September
28, 1967 in Tenafly, New Jersey) is an Academy
Award-winning American actress.
Early life: She is the daughter of Lorraine
Davis, a drama therapist for Alzheimer's patients, and
Italian American character actor Paul Sorvino; she has
two siblings, Michael, and Amanda, a playwright.
Her father did not want his children to become actors;
at a young age, however, Sorvino wrote and acted in
backyard plays with childhood friend Hope Davis, in
theater productions at Dwight-Englewood High School, and
later at Harvard University, where she graduated magna
cum laude in East Asian Studies. Her thesis was on
anti-African sentiment in China. While at Harvard, she
helped found the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones, one of
Harvard's premier co-ed a cappella groups.
Career: She spent the next three years in New
York City, trying to make a name for herself as an
actress. When the 1993 film Amongst Friends entered
pre-production, she was hired as third assistant
director, then was promoted to casting director, then to
assistant producer, and was finally offered a lead role.
Positive reviews opened doors for her.
After small but showy roles in Robert Redford's Quiz
Show and Whit Stillman's Barcelona, her portrayal of a
squeaky-voiced, foul-mouthed prostitute in Woody Allen's
1995 film Mighty Aphrodite won her an Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actress. Other credits include Romy and
Michele's High School Reunion (opposite Lisa Kudrow) and
At First Sight with Val Kilmer.
In recent years, she has appeared in
lower budget and independent films. In 2005, she
received a Golden Globe nomination for her role as an
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in the
Lifetime film Human Trafficking.
Personal life: She is 5'10" tall. She dated
director Quentin Tarantino for several years and was in
a relationship with French actor Olivier Martinez.
She met actor Christopher Backus - fourteen years her
junior - at a friend's charades party in August 2003:
"He walked into the kitchen looking for silverware.
We saw each other and something made us want to talk to
each other more". She told People.
They were engaged within a month. On
June 11, 2004, they married in a private civil ceremony
at a Santa Barbara, California courthouse, then later
had a hilltop ceremony in Capri, Italy. Their daughter,
Mattea Angel, was born on November 3, 2004 and their
son, Johnny Christopher King, was born on May 29, 2006.
She is affiliated with Amnesty International, and has
been among the many Hollywood celebrities calling for
United Nations action in Darfur. She spent a year of
study in Beijing while attending Harvard. She is fluent
in Mandarin Chinese, and also speaks French.
In October of 2006, she was successfully evicted from
her rent-stabilized one-bedroom apartment on the Upper
West Side of Manhattan near Central Park when her
landlord claimed that it was not her primary residence.
She told New York magazine, “My landlords are selling
the building, and they want the units cleared so they
can turn it into a luxury rental, even though it’s a
one-bedroom. I mean, it’s 600 square feet! No great
digs, but I loved it and now it’s probably going to go
for $4,000 a month ... I’m a little bitter! Can you
tell?” |
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