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Nice Girls Finish First, Mira Sorvino
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MovieMaker - Found Aug. 13, 2008 You've got to figure that Woody Allen knew something about Mira Sorvino before he asked her to read for the part of world-class ultraditz Linda, the |
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Defamer - Found Jul. 22, 2008 A rare glimpse into the lives of the post-grad working life of the VG, Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino actually made anyone unfamiliar with the... |
TV guest roles bring acclaim, sometimes Emmys
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Washington Post - Found Jul. 9, 2008 Mira Sorvino, who won her Academy Award for 1996's 'Mighty Aphrodite,' played a psychiatrist who falls prey to a mystery illness on Fox's... |
American Idol stylist correction: Mr. Miles couldn't help Ramiele
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Styledash - Found May. 24, 2008 ... find much information about Ms. Levin, but she worked on mafia caper/girl power film Wise Girls , starring Mira Sorvino and Mariah Carey. |
NBC adding another miniseries to its fall slate
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Entertainment Weekly Online - Found Jun. 12, 2008 The Last Templar, a four-hour miniseries based on the bestselling novel by Raymond Khoury, that'll star Mira Sorvino and Scott Foley, and XIII... |
Woody in his own words
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Seattle Post Intelligencer - Found Aug. 19, 2008 You have written some great parts for women. Keaton, Dianne Wiest and Mira Sorvino have all won Oscars for your films. Wiest won for two of them. Penelope Cruz Gets a Hit for Woody Allen - FOXNews.com Sex (and Love and Death): Woodys World Steams Up - New York Times Penelope Cruz gets Gotham Award Tribute - Hollywood Reporter Penelope Cruz chosen for Gotham Award Tribute - Reuters Explore All |
FOXNews.com |
Allen says actor angst wasted and pointless
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London Free Press - Found Aug. 18, 2008 - John Cusack in Bullets Over Broadway. - Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite. - Ed Norton and Drew Barrymore in Everyone Says I Love You. Scarlett Johansson - CNN Looks Like Woody Allen Is Pimping Out Scarlett Johansson - TheCelebrityCafe.com Allen has hit with amusing 'Vicky' - Chicago Daily Herald Javier Bardem, living the impossible life - TheStar.com.my Explore All |
CNN |
Fuel summer buzz with these 5 films
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Arizona Republic - Found Aug. 16, 2008 Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow play dim-bulb blondes who lie about their lives to impress others at their high-school reunion. |
Allen is funny, sexy, sassy -- again
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Sarnia Observer - Found Aug. 16, 2008 * John Cusack in Bullets Over Broadway. * Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite. VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA RATING: **** (FOUR STARS OUT OF FIVE) Vicky Cristina Barcelona - MSN Movies Is Woody Allen pimping out Scarlett Johansson? - Los Angeles Times REVIEW: Many unhappy returns - London Free Press Woody Allen Interview - VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA - Collider.com Explore All |
Chicago Daily Herald |
Woody Allen amused by 'serious' stars
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Jam! Showbiz Movies - Found Aug. 15, 2008 Huston in Crimes and Misdemeanors and Manhattan Murder Mystery * John Cusack in Bullets Over Broadway * Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite * Ed... Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Entertainment Weekly Online ?Vicky Cristina Barcelona?: Woody?s back! - MSNBC Woody Allen's Verbal Feast - Washington Post Woody Allen Reigns in Spain - Washington Post Explore All |
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Mira Sorvino Biography
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Mira Katherine Sorvino (born September 28, 1967) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress.
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Biography
Early life
Sorvino was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, the daughter of Lorraine Davis, a drama therapist for Alzheimer's patients and former actress, and Paul Sorvino, an Italian American character actor and director.[1][2] 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 her childhood friend Hope Davis, in theater productions at Dwight-Englewood High School, and 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. Her solo piece was Yaz's Yazoo "Only You".
Career
Sorvino 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[3][4] 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. She portrayed Marilyn Monroe for the 1995 HBO film Norma Jean and Marilyn.
In recent years, Sorvino has starred 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.
In February 2008 she guest starred in an episode of the medical television drama House. There was talk of making her character, psychiatrist Cate Milton, a recurring character; however, the writers strike put a temporary freeze on such discussions.[5]
Personal life
Sorvino is 5'10" tall. 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.[6] 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[7] and their son, Johnny Christopher King, was born on May 29, 2006. She has also dated director Quentin Tarantino and French actor Olivier Martinez. [8]
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.[9]
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?”
In honor of Sorvino's role as Dr. Susan Tyler, an entomologist who was investigating deadly insect mutations in the feature film, Mimic, mirasorvone[10] was the name given to a compound excreted by the sunburst diving beetle as a defensive mechanism.
Filmography
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Dianne Wiest for Bullets Over Broadway |
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1995 for Mighty Aphrodite |
Succeeded by Juliette Binoche for The English Patient |
| Preceded by Dianne Wiest for Bullets Over Broadway |
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture 1996 for Mighty Aphrodite |
Succeeded by Lauren Bacall for The Mirror Has Two Faces |
References
- ^ "Mira Sorvino Biography (1968?-)". filmreference.com. Retrieved on 2007-12-31.
- ^ Maria Laurino (August 28, 1994). "FILM; The Many Screen Ethnicities of Mira Sorvino", New York Times.
- ^ James Berardinelli (1993). "Review: Amongst Friends".
- ^ Hal Hinson (August 13, 1993). "Amongst Friends", Washington Post.
- ^ Isabella Vosmikova (2008-01-24). "TV Addict Interview: Mira Sorvino Guest Stars on HOUSE".
- ^ Alison Gee (May 30, 2006). "Mira Sorvino Has a Boy", People.
- ^ Mira Sorvino Gives Birth to a Girl - Pregnancy, Mira Sorvino : People.com
- ^ Template:Http://www.askmen.com/women/actress 100/110 mira sorvino.html
- ^ "Tavis Smiley Archives: Mira Sorvino" (2005-10-12).
- ^ Jerrold Meinwald; et al. (March 17, 1998). "Mirasorvone: A masked 20-ketopregnane from the defensive secretion of a diving beetle (Thermonectus marmoratus)". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 95 (6): 2733–2737. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences. doi:. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 9501158. OCLC 1607201.
External links
- Mira Sorvino at the Internet Movie Database
- Mira Sorvino at TV.com
- interview, 10/24/05 at The Honolulu Advertiser
- interview, 1/16/99, People Online
- interview, 10/95 at MovieMaker magazine
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| NAME | Sorvino, Mira |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sorvino, Mira Katherine |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tenafly, New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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Mira Sorvino Videos and Clips
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