Mira Sorvino is an actress of American nationality. She came to be known when she was Golden Globe and the Academy Award winner because she was the best supporting actress in Mighty Aphrodite and Woody Allens. She is known because she starred in the movies called Summer of Sam, Like Dandelion Dust, Mimic, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion. She got the nomination for Emmy and Golden Globe for the role she had in Norma Jean and Marilyn. She also got the nomination the role she had in the Human Trafficking.
Mira Sorvino was born in the city of New York, her mother was called Lorraine Ruth Davis and she was a drama therapist for the patients of Alzheimer’s disease, she was also a former actress before. Her father is called Paul Sorvino and he is a film director and a character actor. She has two siblings who are Amanda and Michael. She is from Italian at the side of his father.
Sorvino got raised in the New Jersey and she was writing and acting in the backyard plays with her friend Hope Davis and later in the theater production of Dwight-Engle School. She was accepted to study in Harvard University and she did a year in Beijing as a CIEE student. This is where she became fluent in the Mandarin Chinese and in 1989 she graduated from Harvard as Magna Cum Laude with the degree in the East Asian Studies. She helped in founding the Harvard-RadCliffe Veritones and this is one of the co-ed a cappella groups of Harvard in the year 1985.
Mira Sorvino was in relationship with Quentin Tarantino in the year 1996 to 1998. He was her escort in the Academy Awards ceremony when she was given the award of Best Supporting Actress for the role she has in the Mighty Aphrodite. Mira Sorvino met Christopher Backus who is actor at the charades party of her friends in the year 2003 and they got married in the private ceremony at Santa Barbara in California. They had a celebration in Italy. They have four children two daughters and two sons.
She was affiliated to the Amnesty International from 2004 and in 2006, she was honored with the Artist of Conscience Award by Amnesty International. She was UN Goodwill Ambassador where she was meant to combat the Human Trafficking. She is a Christian.
Mira Sorvino was hired as a third assistant director of Amongst Friends when it entered the pre-production, she was then promoted to the casting director and then to the assistant producer and afterwards, she was promoted to the assistant producer and then she was given the lead role afterwards. Positive reviews helped her to get other opportunities. She had a small role in the Quiz Show. She was the cast of the Mighty Aphrodite in the Woody Allen. She played as a prostitute the role that earned her an award. She was a guest of Frozen Episode in the medical television drama known as House. It was expected that her role can be made into the character which was stopped by the strike of the writers.
| Birth Date: | 28 Sep, 1967 |
| Age: | 52 yrs |
| Occupations: | Film actor Actor Screenwriter Television actor |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Tenafly |
| residence: | Los Angeles |
| Education: | Harvard University |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | American actress |
| Twitter Id: | MiraSorvino |
| Spouse: | Christopher Backus [M. 2004] |
| Net Worth 2021: | 16 million |
