Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Mira Sorvino

 Sorvino had her first screen appearance in Swans Crossing when she was a teenager. The film was then commissioned as an assistant director, later promoted to casting director, and later assistant producer, before receiving a leading role. After a few small roles in Robert Redford’s Quiz Show, Whit Stillman’s Barcelona and Woody Allen's Aphrodite (1995), Aphrodite (1995), she was praised and led to more opportunities for acting. She was a prostitution sexist who was a cult character due to her character. The film brought her not only international recognition, she also admitted that it was extremely stressful. "Every night was a anxious breakdown. I would beg and cry to God for help because I was anxious. Then the next day, I'd show up and do my scenes.Her other roles include Romy and Michele's High School Reunion with Lisa Kudrow, At First Sight with Val Kilmer, and Spike Lee's Summer of Sam. She played Marilyn Monroe for the 1996 HBO film Norma Jean & Marilyn, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe award;[13She also played the leading role in Guillermo del Toro's horror film Mimic. She starred as Conchita Closson in Edith Wharton's final novel, in the BBC's 1995 miniseries The Buccaneers. She was the lead character Daisy Buchanan in the 2000 TV film, The Great Gatsby.In 2002, she appeared as the lead in The Triumph of Love, an adaptation of the 1732 Marivaux play.That year, she also appeared in WiseGirls alongside Mariah Carey and Melora Walters In 2006, she was awarded an Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the role of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in the Lifetime film Human Trafficking. She was a supporting actress in Reservation Road (2007), which she co-starred alongside Mark Ruffalo. In February 2008, she was a part of "Frozen", a medical drama on television featuring psychiatrist Cate Milton. Plans to make her character a recurring character were interrupted by the writers' strike She starred in Attack on Leningrad (2009), Multiple Sarcasms (2010) with Timothy Hutton and Stockard Channing and Nancy Savoca's Union Square (2012), which starred Patti Lupone and Tammy Blanchard. The film received positive reviews and the film was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festiva. The year as well, Sorvino was the mother of the main character in the film adaptation of Wendy Mass's children's book Jeremy Fink. In 2014, she returned to Psych as Head Detective Betsy Brannigan and Sara Pope. She also played Amy Whelan on Intruders. In 2016, she starred on the Netflix series Lady Dynamite as an actor who was working on an upcoming sitcom pilot titled White Trash. In the year 2018, Sorvino took on the part as Amy in the psychological thriller Look Away with Jason Isaacs and India Eisley.

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