Mira Sorvino

“Mira Katherine Sorvino (/ˈmiːrə sɔːrˈviːnoʊ/; born September 28, 1967) is an American actress.”

“Mira Sorvino can soon be seen starring in season 3 of the Crackle series STARTUP. Recently, she could be seen starring in the Audience Network series CONDOR, opposite Max Irons and Brendan Fraser, based on the 1975 Sydney Pollack film ‘Three Days of Condor.’ She was recently seen in a guest arc in the Emmy Award winning ABC series MODERN FAMILY. She is currently in production on the upcoming 20th Century Fox film, STUBER, opposite Kumail Nanjiani and David Bautista. Prior to that, she was seen in Adam Marino’s BENEATH THE LEAVES and also played pivotal roles in the drama series INTRUDERS for BBC America, as well as arcs on the series STALKER and FALLING SKIES.

“Mira won an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe Award for her performance in MIGHTY APHRODITE. Her other credits include TRADE OF INNOCENTS, UNION SQUARE, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, RESERVATION ROAD, QUIZ SHOW, SUMMER OF SAM, ROMY AND MICHELLE’S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION and NORMA JEAN AND MARILYN. She is a Harvard graduate and an official ambassador for the United Nations on Human Trafficking. In that role, she has traveled the world on behalf of the UN and testified to Congress on human trafficking and atrocities occurring around the world from Mexico to Darfur to here in the United States.”

Early life
“Sorvino was born in New York City to Lorraine Ruth Davis, a drama therapist for Alzheimer’s disease patients and a former actress, and Paul Sorvino, a character actor and film director. She has two siblings, Michael and Amanda. Sorvino is of Italian descent on her father’s side.

“Sorvino was raised in Tenafly, New Jersey, where she wrote and acted in backyard plays with her childhood friend Hope Davis and in theater productions at Dwight-Englewood School. Sorvino has said that as a child she was strongly influenced by her mother to pursue social causes; her mother had participated at the March on Washington. Sorvino excelled in high school, and was accepted into Harvard University. She studied for one year as an exchange student with CIEE in Beijing, China, where she became fluent in Mandarin Chinese. In 1989, she graduated from Harvard magna cum laude with a degree in East Asian studies. She also helped found the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones, one of Harvard’s co-ed a cappella groups in 1985.”