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Mira Sorvino
Mira Sorvino
Mira Sorvino is not your typical Hollywood actress. She is a 1990 Harvard University graduate
of East Asian Studies, and she learned to speak fluent Mandarin while spending a year abroad in
Beijing. Yet with this nerdy background, Mira landed an Oscar-winning, supporting role as an
airy call girl in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite. Mira later starred as the half-wit but sweet
blonde Romy White in Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion with Lisa Kudro.
After graduation from Harvard, Mira moved to New York where she pursued a professional
acting career. Like most would-be actresses, she waitressed while trying to crack her way in.
Mira also worked as a production assistant for Robert de Niro’s film company Tribeca. Then in
1992, she secured a job in Rob Weiss’s Indie film Amongst Friends as a third assistant director.
As the production progressed, Mira was promoted to various positions including casting director
and assistant producer before she finally captured the film’s female lead. Her debut performance
earned strong notice as various film-festival screenings.
Director Whit Stillman took notice to Mira’s screen presence and cast her as a translator in
Barcelona (1994). Robert Redford directed her in Quiz Show (1994), Mira’s first studio film,
where she played the brainy wife of Rob Morrow. Mira then out-performed her costars as the
kindhearted prostitute Linda Ash in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite (1995). She later became
Matt Dillon’s love interest in Beautiful Girls (1996) and Marilyn Monroe in Norma Jean and
Marilyn (1996) with Ashley Judd. in 1997, Mira starred opposite Lisa Kudrow in Romy and
Michele’s High School Reunion also with Janeane Garofalo. As an entomologist, Mira became
the hunted in the horror film Mimic (1997). Then in 1998, Mira’s salary reached $2 million as
she starred opposite Chinese superstar Chow Yun Fat in the Replacement Killers.
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