Mira Sorvino

 

Sorvino was the first actress to make an screen appearance on Swans Crossing, a television series for teenagers, that featured her in six episodes. The show's creators hired her as a third assistant filmmaker when the 1993 film Amongst Friends began preproduction. Then she was elevated to the position of casting director then assistant producer and finally offered a major role. The positive reviews she receivled to more acting opportunities.After small roles in Robert Redford's Quiz Show and Whit Stillman's Barcelona, she was selected for Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995). She was a prostitution sexist and is happy-go-lucky and won her both an Academy Award [12] as and an Golden Globe [13] for Best Supporting Artist. While she did get international recognition for the film, she admitted that the experience was very stressful. "Every night brought another breakdown of nerves. I'd cry and talk to God because I was extremely nervous. Then the next day, I'd turn up and perform my scenes. 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 portrayed Marilyn Monroe for the 1996 HBO film Norma Jean & Marilyn, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe nomination;[13she also played the leading role in Guillermo Del Toro's film about horror Mimic. In 1995, she played Conchita Closson on the BBC miniseries The Buccaneers, based on Edith Wharton's final novel. In 2000, she was a part-time actress in The Great Gatsby as Daisy Buchanan. In 2002, Sorvino was the lead character in The Triumph of Love (an adaptation of the 1732 Marivaux drama). [14] That year she also appeared in WiseGirls along with Mariah Carey and Melora Walters. In 2006, she won a Golden Globe nomination for her performance as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in the Lifetime film Human Trafficking. 13. She was a supporting actor in Reservation Road (2007), starring with Mark Ruffal. In February 2008, she was a part of "Frozen" the medical drama comedy featuring psychiatrist Cate Milton. The writers' strike ended plans to make her an ongoing character. [She starred in Attack on Leningrad (2009), Multiple Sarcasms (2010) with Timothy Hutton and Stockard Channing as well as Nancy Savoca's Union Square (2012), which starred Patti Lupone and Tammy Blanchar The film was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to positive reviews. The same year, Sorvino played the mother of the main character in the adaptation of Wendy Mass's popular children's book Jeremy Fink and the The Meaning of Life.In 2014, she returned as the Head Detective Betsy Brannigan on the final season of Psych and also on the fourth season of the show Falling Skies as John Pope's love interest Sara. 21. Sorvino was also cast in the Intruders TV series, playing Amy Whelan. In 2016, she starred in the Netflix series Lady Dynamite as an actor working on an upcoming sitcom pilot titled White Trash. 22 years ago, Sorvino played the role as Amy in the thriller about psychological issues Look Away, alongside Jason Isaacs and India Eisley.In 2019 Sorvino was a part of the Netflix miniseries Hollywood as an actor who's career fell due to a romance with the director head.Personal life between 1996 and 1998, Mira Sorvino was romantically involved with director Quentin Tarantino, who was her chauffeur to the Academy Awards ceremony where she received the award for Best Supporting Actress in Mighty Aphrodite.Sorvino was introduced to actor Christopher Backus at a friend's charades party in August 2003. They were married on June 11, 2004 in an intimate civil ceremony in Santa Barbara's courthouse. The couple later had an outdoor ceremony on the top of a hill located in Capri, Italy. Their four children are two sons and two daughters. In 2017 Sorvino spoke out about the harassation she received from producer Harvey Weinstein[36] and believes that her career was damaged when she refused Weinstein's requests. According to Peter Jackson, Weinstein blocked Sorvino and Ashley Judd, another of his suspected victims, from being considered for roles for The Lord of the Rings films. In the year 2019, she made it public that she was a date rape victim.