Mira Sorvino

Mira Sorvino Movies and TV Shows

Mira Katherine Sorvino was born on September 28, 1967 in Manhattan. She is the daughter of Lorraine Davis, an actress turned drama therapist, and veteran character actor Paul Sorvino. Her father's family were Italian immigrants. The young Sorvino was intelligent, an avid reader and an exceptional scholar. Her father discouraged her from becoming an actor, as he knew how the industry often chews up young stars. She attended Harvard, majoring in Chinese, graduating magna cum laude in 1989, largely on the strength of her thesis, a Hoopes Prize-winning thesis on racial conflict in China, written and researched during the year spent in Beijing, which helped her fluency in Mandarin Chinese. However, she showed interest in a career in acting from an early age, and moved to New York City to try her hand in the City's film industry, waitressing, auditioning and working at the Tribeca production company of Robert De Niro. She succeeded in getting a little television work in the early 1990s, but got her first film job in the independent gangster movie Amongst Friends (1993), on which she worked her way up the ladder behind the camera to eventually associate-produce the film, and, more importantly, was eventually cast as the female lead. The indie production was well-received, and Sorvino's performance attracted enough buzz to get her cast in two more movies, one a more prominent indie, Barcelona (1994), the other her first Hollywood feature, Quiz Show (1994), and her skillful performances brought her yet more attention. An exceptionally poised and articulate young woman, she may have seemed inappropriate to play a crazy hooker, but Woody Allen took the chance, and her magnificent performance as the female lead in his Mighty Aphrodite (1995) proved her range as a performer and earned her an Oscar (at the tender age of 29) for Best Supporting Actress. Since winning the Oscar, Sorvino has continued to take a wide range of roles, including another stretch as Marilyn Monroe in Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996), co-starring with another very intelligent and skilled young actress, Ashley Judd. Forays into action and horror, such as Mimic (1997) and The Replacement Killers (1998) show that Sorvino is not above being playful in the film roles she chooses. However, what forever cemented her role in popular culture was her performance as charmingly silly California beach girl Romy White in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), in which she and co-star Lisa Kudrow utter one hilarious absurdity after another. Mira Sorvino married Christopher Backus on June 11, 2004, and the couple have four children. - IMDb Mini Biography

Personal info

  • Gender: Female
  • Date of birth: 9/28/1967 (56 years old)
  • Place of birth: Tenafly, New Jersey, USA
  • nationality: American
  • height: 1.78 m
  • Net worth: $16,000,000
Year
Genre
IMDB
TMDB
Available on the following streaming services in the United States
Sound of Freedom
IMDB 7.7
TMDB 80%
role:
Katherine Ballard
2023

Action

Drama

Thriller

7.7
80%
2022

Drama

5.4
64%
After Ever Happy
IMDB 4.6
TMDB 68%
role:
Carol Young
2022

Romance

4.6
68%
Shining Vale
IMDB 7.0
TMDB 79%
role:
Rosemary
2022

Comedy

Drama

7.0
79%
East of the Mountains
IMDB 5.6
TMDB 51%
role:
Renee Givens
2021

Drama

5.6
51%
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After We Fell
IMDB 4.7
TMDB 72%
role:
Carol Young
2021

Drama

Romance

4.7
72%
2021

Action

Crime

Drama

4.0
44%
Val
IMDB 7.6
TMDB 71%
role:
Self (archive footage)
2021

Documentary

7.6
71%
Hero Mode
IMDB 4.5
TMDB 62%
role:
Kate Mayfield
2021

Comedy

Family

4.5
62%
2021

Drama

Family

5.8
78%
The Expecting
IMDB 5.7
TMDB 76%
role:
Not available
2020

Drama

5.7
76%
Not available
Butter
IMDB 5.9
TMDB 62%
role:
Marian
2020

Drama

5.9
62%
The Islands
IMDB 5.3
TMDB 85%
role:
Mary Thornton
Not available
2019

Adventure

5.3
85%
Not available
Badland
IMDB 5.6
TMDB 62%
role:
Sarah Cooke
2019

Western

5.6
62%
QT8: The First Eight
IMDB 7.3
TMDB 73%
role:
Self (archive footage)
2019

Documentary

7.3
73%
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Stuber
IMDB 6.2
TMDB 67%
role:
Angie McHenry
2019

Action

Comedy

Crime

Thriller

6.2
67%
Beneath The Leaves
IMDB 4.5
TMDB 49%
role:
Detective Erica Shotwell
2019

Thriller

4.5
49%
Look Away
IMDB 5.8
TMDB 66%
role:
Amy Brennan
2018

Horror

Thriller

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

5.8
66%
No One Would Tell
IMDB 6.4
TMDB 76%
role:
Elizabeth Hanover
2018

Drama

Mystery

TV Movie

Thriller

6.4
76%
2018

Action

Adventure

Animation

Kids

4.9
87%
2017

Drama

Thriller

5.7
58%
A Christmas to Remember
IMDB 6.5
TMDB 64%
role:
Jennifer Wade
2016

Romance

TV Movie

6.5
64%
Indiscretion
IMDB 4.8
TMDB 44%
role:
Dr. Veronica Simon
Not available
2016

Crime

Drama

Romance

Thriller

4.8
44%
Not available
2016

Comedy

Drama

7.4
74%
Mothers and Daughters
IMDB 4.9
TMDB 55%
role:
Georgina Scott
2016

Drama

4.9
55%
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Exposed
IMDB 4.3
TMDB 49%
role:
Janine Cullen
2016

Crime

Drama

Mystery

Thriller

4.3
49%
2015

Drama

5.7
61%
Do You Believe?
IMDB 6.0
TMDB 66%
role:
Samantha
2015

Drama

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.0
66%
Intruders
IMDB 6.6
TMDB 68%
role:
Amy Whelan
2014

Crime

Mystery

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.6
68%
Perfect Sisters
IMDB 5.6
TMDB 58%
role:
Linda / Perfect Mom
2014

Crime

Drama

Thriller

5.6
58%
Space Warriors
IMDB 4.5
TMDB 52%
role:
Sally Hawkins
Not available
2013

Adventure

Family

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

4.5
52%
Not available
Finding Mrs. Claus
IMDB 6.1
TMDB 58%
role:
Jessica Claus
2012

Comedy

Romance

6.1
58%
Trade of Innocents
IMDB 5.4
TMDB 55%
role:
Claire Becker
2012

Drama

Thriller

5.4
55%
2012

Family

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.0
30%
Angels Crest
IMDB 5.7
TMDB 58%
role:
Angie
2011

Drama

5.7
58%
Woody Allen: A Documentary
IMDB 7.7
TMDB 69%
role:
Herself
Not available
2011

Documentary

7.7
69%
Not available
The Presence
IMDB 4.4
TMDB 45%
role:
Executive Producer & 1 more
2010

Drama

Horror

Thriller

4.4
45%
2010

Drama

Romance

4.7
68%
Like Dandelion Dust
IMDB 7.0
TMDB 68%
role:
Wendy Porter
2009

Drama

7.0
68%
The Last Templar
IMDB 4.5
TMDB 50%
role:
Tess Chaykin
Not available
2009

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

4.5
50%
Not available
Leningrad
IMDB 6.0
TMDB 56%
role:
Kate Davis
2009

Drama

War & Politics

6.0
56%
Reservation Road
IMDB 6.6
TMDB 65%
role:
Ruth Wheldon
2007

Crime

Drama

Thriller

6.6
65%
The Final Cut
IMDB 6.1
TMDB 60%
role:
Delila
2004

Drama

Mystery

Thriller

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.1
60%
2001

Drama

War & Politics

7.0
66%
Bamboozled
IMDB 6.7
TMDB 63%
role:
Herself
2000

Comedy

Drama

6.7
63%
Summer of Sam
IMDB 6.7
TMDB 65%
role:
Dionna
1999

Crime

Drama

Romance

Thriller

6.7
65%
At First Sight
IMDB 6.0
TMDB 60%
role:
Amy Benic
1999

Drama

Romance

6.0
60%
1998

Action

Crime

Drama

Mystery

Thriller

6.1
62%
Mimic
IMDB 6.0
TMDB 60%
role:
Dr. Susan Tyler
1997

Horror

Thriller

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.0
60%
1997

Comedy

6.3
63%
Beautiful Girls
IMDB 7.1
TMDB 67%
role:
Sharon Cassidy
1996

Comedy

Drama

Romance

7.1
67%
Blue in the Face
IMDB 6.6
TMDB 67%
role:
Young lady
1995

Comedy

6.6
67%
Mighty Aphrodite
IMDB 7.0
TMDB 68%
role:
Linda Ash
1995

Comedy

Romance

7.0
68%
Quiz Show
IMDB 7.5
TMDB 73%
role:
Sandra Goodwin
1994

Drama

History

7.5
73%
The Stuff
IMDB 5.9
TMDB 59%
role:
Factory Worker (uncredited)
1985

Comedy

Horror

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

5.9
59%

FAQs

Some movies or TV shows available in the United States starring or involving Mira Sorvino are, for example, Sound of Freedom, Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend and After Ever Happy.
The streaming services with the largest selection are Prime Video, Amazon and iTunes.
The best Anystream ratings are Sound of Freedom (7.9), Shining Vale (7.5) and Val (7.4).
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