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Mira Katherine Sorvino was born on 28 September 1967, in New York City, USA, to Lorraine Ruth Davis, a drama therapist working with patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and a former actress, and Paul Sorvino, an actor and director, of Italian descent. She is an actress, best known for playing a hooker in Woody Allen’s film “Mighty Aphrodite”.

A talented actress, how rich is Mira Sorvino at present? Sources state that Sorvino’s net worth reaches $16 million, as of late-2016, accumulated during her acting career which now spans more than 30 years.

Sorvino grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey, along with her two siblings. After matriculating from Dwight Englewood High School, in Englewood, New Jersey, she enrolled at Harvard University, majoring in Chinese. While at college, she spent a year in China as part of a study abroad program, which enabled her to become fluent in Mandarin. After graduating from Harvard magna cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies in 1989, she moved to New York City to pursue an acting career.

Mira made her television debut in 1992, with the recurring role of Sophia Eva McCormick De Castro in the television series “Swans Crossing”. She then began working as an assistant director at the Tribeca production company of Robert De Niro, being eventually promoted to casting director, and then to assistant producer for the 1993 independent drama film “Amongst Friends”, in which she also had a leading role as Laura. The following year she played Sandra Goodwin in Robert Redford’s film “Quiz Show”, and took the role of Marta Ferrer in the comedy film “Barcelona”. Her net worth started to rise.

The year 1995 was Sorvino’s breakthrough year; she was cast as a prostitute with a heart of gold, Linda Ash, in Woody Allen’s “Mighty Aphrodite”, and her skillful performance as the female lead earned her the status of a star, as well as an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her net worth was boosted too.

Also that year, she was cast with a recurring role as Conchita Closson in the television series “The Buccaneers”. The following year she played Marilyn Monroe in the TV film “Norma Jean & Marilyn”, and soon after, she had leading roles in the films “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion”, “Mimic”, “The Replacement Killers” and “Summer of Sam”, with her brilliant performances bringing her yet more attention.

Opportunities continued to come Sorvino’s way during the early 2000s, and she landed a wide range of roles, such as in the TV film “The Great Gatsby”, and in the miniseries “Human Trafficking”. As for films, she starred in several projects, including “The Grey Zone”, “Between Strangers”, “Attack on Leningrad”, “Multiple Sarcasms”, “Like Dandelion Dust”, “Union Square” and “Trade of Innocents”. As of 2014, she had recurring roles in the series “Psych”, “Falling Skies”, “Intruders” and “Stalker”. Sorvino’s latest film appearances were in the 2016 films “Exposed” and “Indiscretion”. All added to her wealth.

Speaking about her private life, Sorvino was once in a relationship with the legendary Quentin Tarantino. In 2004 she married actor, director and screenwriter Christopher Backus; the couple has four children together.

Sorvino is a devoted philanthropist; she has been working with Amnesty International as their Stop Violence Against Women spokesperson, and has served as a UN Goodwill Ambassador to Combat Human Trafficking.

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• (2011, on Mimic (1997)) Giant cockroach movie. Guillermo [Guillermo del Toro] is a very dear friend of mine, and I think I now wish I had done one of his later movies, because I have an intense disgust for cockroaches. I met with him, and felt I was in the presence of a genius. I don’t love horror movies, but I felt if I was ever to go down that dark path, it would be under his surefooted care. But I wish hadn’t done the one about giant cockroaches. I wish I had been in one of his later ones, which were more esoteric and beautiful. But I still think it’s a great movie. I just have disgust, and I think the audience… My father was like [Imitates Paul Sorvino], “Mira, people are not going to come see a movie about cockroaches. There’s a kind of evolutionary revulsion we have toward those sorts of insects, and no one will come to see it. It’s not like a giant snake movie. It’s different!”.
• (2011, on The Final Cut (2004)) I don’t think that many people have seen, and I think it’s a rather interesting film. I loved working with Robin [Robin Williams]. Robin’s an amazing guy. What a brilliant man. I don’t know if you’ve had the good fortune of speaking with him, but he is brilliant, and he can improv a rant on anything and knows about everything. It’s as if he digests the entirety of the New York Times for breakfast and then spits it out in these comedic bits. He’s always on. He has one of those personalities where it seems like they’re on speed, but that’s just the way they’re built. They’re just…I think some people don’t understand how brilliant he is, because they just get blown away by the funny. But he’s just a brilliant man.
• (2011, on The Replacement Killers (1998)) I wanted to work for John Woo, and he was one of the executive producers, and Antoine Fuqua. It was funny: That and Mimic (1997), the directors both made greater- or at least, more broad-reaching, more artistic movies-after their genre forays, and I kind of wish I’d worked with Antoine on his second or third movie. But I always like to give emerging directors my support, because you can tell when you talk to somebody that they have it, and you want to work with them, and it’s exciting. It’s just sometimes they’re not really allowed, at the earlier stages of their career, to bring the fullness of their imagination to the project, because studios are very, very nervous about what they’re doing. They want to make sure that it’s going to fit. But I loved working with Antoine, and it was fun to do an action movie. It was kind of like being a kid and playing cowboys and Indians, or cops and robbers. And I enjoyed the role of Meg. I thought she was fun to do. I blew my voice out when I was doing a reshoot of Mimic-because it was one of those screaming scenes where I’m in the subway and I’m yelling because the monster is coming-and when I came back to the set of The Replacement Killers (1998), Antoine was like, “I like your voice that way. Keep it”. So every day I had to yell to burn out my vocal cords. My voice wasn’t the same for a year and a half afterwards because it had the rough, gravelly, two-registers-lower sound to it.
• (2011, on working with Val Kilmer on At First Sight (1999) and his bad reputation) You know what, he was real easy to work with. I just hate furthering rumors about people being difficult, because it can do such enormous damage to their careers. My experience with him was nothing but positive. He was really professional and gentlemanly, and a terrific actor.
• (2011, on The Grey Zone (2001)) It is a movie I’m proud of, and no one has seen it because it’s so dark. The darkest movie I’ve ever been a part of, for sure. But a great one, I think.
• (2011, on Mighty Aphrodite (1995)) That was a blessing from heaven, that role. That was a fantastic role. Working with Woody Allen had been a dream of mine since I was 12, when I was reading “Getting Even” and “Without Feathers”. I was in a high school production of “Play It Again, Sam”. I played the Diane Keaton role in that. So getting to work for him was such a dream come true, and I never thought it could happen that early in my career. That was just an amazing role and a great experience.
• (2011, on Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996)) I loved that experience. It was an honor to get to play one of my icons. I had always been touched by her, and touched by the fact that, as a teenage girl growing up in a rather repressive household, she was so openly sexual. But also openly, seemingly good and innocent, like a child. That was very appealing to me, because she wasn’t this vamp whose sexuality was this dark, knowing thing. It was just natural to her. And her life was so sad. She had such a miserable life. Getting into playing her, researching her, you got drawn into this vortex of desperation as she got older. I almost had a nervous breakdown on the set, because I was putting on the dress she had actually worn-with the cherries on it, from The Misfits (1961)-that I had found at this costume house in New York. I went in there and asked if they had any Marilyn costumes, because we were looking for things for the movie, and they said, “We have the actual dress from The Misfits (1961). Your production can rent it”. So putting it on was almost this religious experience for me, and I felt like, “Uh, how dare I try to play Marilyn Monroe? Who am I to think that I can impersonate Marilyn Monroe?” Then, I had this weird epiphany that I was never going to be Marilyn, to take myself off that hook, because nobody could be her but her. But this is my homage to her, and I can try to put into this performance the things I think I know about her, and the things I think I know about her heart. So that made it easier for me to do it. Because to try to compare yourself to Marilyn, you’re always going to lose, and there’s no way you could be her, because she was one-in-a-million. But I think there’s something iconic about her story, which is the great American tragedy-the 20th-century tragedy of illusory fame and lovability by millions, but ending up completely alone and desperate. I think it’s an interesting parable that people get drawn to time and time again, because she seemingly had everything and yet had so little…People who actually knew her liked the performance. Some people did not like the way the role was written for the Ashley [Ashley Judd] side. Someone came up to me and said, “I knew Marilyn, and she was NEVER vicious”. They showed her as kind of a ruthless, rise-to-power character incarnate in the Ashley character, and my character was the softer side of her. So personally, maybe there’s bloggers out there who hate me, but there are bloggers out there who hate everybody. In terms of all the feedback that I’ve ever gotten in person, people were positive.
• (2011, on making Summer of Sam (1999)) I loved the dancing sequences with John Leguizamo. We had so much fun preparing for that. We just worked for a month with Paul Pellicoro at DanceSport in New York, rehearsing the Hustle moves. The first scene is a choreographed number, and the second scene is improvised, where I’m in a red dress. We had so much fun with both those scenes. There was a certain scene which was not so much fun, which is the orgy scene, where at the end of it I was crying in the corner, like, “I did not become an actress to do this”. Because it was basically like being in the middle of a porn movie. Everybody else in the room-although they were not actually having sex-was completely naked, feigning sex with loud, loud noises. We were strategically covered. I mean, on-camera, we looked naked, but we had little things covering the most important areas. But everybody else in the room, who were also sort of rubbing up against you, was naked. For hours of this, everybody grunting and hollering. It was very demoralizing, so I was glad that was only one day of that shoot. But working with Spike [Spike Lee] was a treat, because he set up the way the he shot the movie so that it was all completely fresh in the moment. He used two cameras at all times, and Ellen Kuras, the amazing DP of that, really had it down to a science, so you didn’t need to stop the scene to cover it. You were covering it as it was happening. So if in one take something amazing happened that didn’t happen in another one, it didn’t matter, because she already had it from the other side, because she was working two cameras at once. Like the scene in the cemetery. There’s one take where, because John and I really trusted each other, Spike was like [whispers], “Spit in her face.” And I didn’t know he had said this. But because we trusted each other, when he spit in my face, I slapped him in his face. Then we went on with the scene and I jump out of the car, screaming in this cemetery. None of that was in the script. It just happened, and it was all caught, and it was all in the movie. And I love working that way, when life overtakes the state where it’s the page, and it becomes something further than where the blueprint was. I love that way of working, and I loved working with Spike Lee.
• (2011) Free Money (1998). My Brando experience. The movie? Perhaps not as fully realized as we all hoped. But it was an amazing experience for me to work with Marlon Brando, because I had always idolized him, and it was so thrilling to get to work with him…I actually have lots of Brando anecdotes from that movie, but it would take all day, so I can’t really tell you. And besides, I’m saving them for myself, for when I’m 80 and write my book.
• (2011) WiseGirls (2002) is not a bad little film. It missed a theatrical distribution by inches. It did well at Sundance, it got a really good reception there. I made one of my very best friends in the world on it, Melora Walters, who plays one of the three waitresses. It’s a pretty gripping little story about a waitress who’s a former med student who gets caught up in this mob-run joint, and I end up being the house doctor for the local gunshot wounds, and we all become part of sting operation. It’s actually kind of a good movie.
• There’s a side of my personality that goes completely against the East Coast educated person and wants to be a pin-up girl in garages across America…there’s a side that wants to wear the pink angora bikini!

Mira Katherine Sorvino Important Facts

• $3,000,000
• Stepdaughter of Dee Dee Benkie Sorvino.
• Is one of 22 Oscar-winning actresses to have been born in the state of New York. The others are Alice Brady, Teresa Wright, Anne Revere, Celeste Holm, Claire Trevor, Judy Holliday, Shirley Booth, Susan Hayward, Patty Duke, Anne Bancroft, Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Lee Grant, Beatrice Straight, Whoopi Goldberg, Mercedes Ruehl, Marisa Tomei, Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Connelly, Melissa Leo and Anne Hathaway.
• Is one of 26 actresses who have received an Academy Award for their performance in a comedy; hers being for Mighty Aphrodite (1995). The others in chronological order, are: Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night (1934)), Loretta Young (The Farmer’s Daughter (1947)), Josephine Hull (Harvey (1950)), Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday (1950)), Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday (1953)), Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower (1969)), Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class (1973)), Lee Grant (Shampoo (1975)), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall (1977)), Maggie Smith (California Suite (1978)), Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard (1980)), Jessica Lange (Tootsie (1982)), Anjelica Huston (Prizzi’s Honor (1985)), Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck (1987)), Cher (Moonstruck (1987)), Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy (1989)), Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King (1991)), Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny (1992)), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway (1994)), Frances McDormand (Fargo (1996)), Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets (1997)), Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)), and Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook (2012)).
• Born at 10:20 PM.
• Was the 108th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite (1995) at The 68th Annual Academy Awards (1996) on March 25, 1996.
• Is a huge fan of the original Star Trek (1966) series.
• Returned to work 3 months after giving birth to her daughter Lucia in order to begin filming Space Warriors (2013).
• Returned to work 5 months after giving birth to her son Holden in order to begin filming Angels Crest (2011).
• Gave birth to her fourth child at age 44, a daughter Lucia Backus on May 3, 2012. Child’s father is her husband, Christopher Backus.
• Gave birth to her third child at age 41, a son Holden Paul Terry Backus on June 22, 2009. Child’s father is her husband, Christopher Backus.
• Gave birth to her second child at age 38, a son Johnny Christopher King Backus on May 29, 2006. Child’s father is her husband, Christopher Backus.
• Gave birth to her first child at age 37, a daughter Mattea Angel Backus on November 3, 2004. Child’s father is her husband, Christopher Backus.
• Cousin of Bill Sorvino.
• Mentioned in the theme song of The Adventures of George the Projectionist (2006).
• Auditioned for the role of Dorothy Boyd in Jerry Maguire (1996), which went to Renée Zellweger.
• According to Larry Cohen on the DVD commentary for The Stuff (1985), Mira Sorvino came to the set of the film to visit her father, Paul Sorvino, and was given a small part in the film. She plays one of the yellow suited “stuffies” at the plant her father’s character attacks. Larry Cohen had forgotten Sorvino appeared in the film until he was talking with her and Quentin Tarantino, whom she was dating, and mentioned that he had directed her father in the film. Mira then reminded Cohen that she actually appeared in the film.
• Made her acting debut on an episode of Law & Order (1990) (which at that time starred her father, Paul Sorvino). Although her scene was cut, she still earned a Screen Actors Guild Card for her trouble.
• She and her husband Christopher Backus have both guest-starred on the situation comedy Will & Grace (1998), though not in the same episode.
• Was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997.
• (Spring 2003) Met her husband at a Charades party, held by stylist Samantha McMillen.
• (June 11, 2004) Married actor Christopher Backus in a civil service in Santa Monica, California, and then had their formal ceremony on the island of Capri in Italy. Mira is of half Italian descent, and this was to honor her Italian roots. She wore a gown designed by Giorgio Armani.
• Was a founding member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones, Harvard’s premier co-ed a cappella group (1985).
• Childhood friends with Hope Davis; they performed plays for the neighbors.
• Has a younger brother named Michael Sorvino and a younger sister named Amanda Sorvino.
• Parents are Lorraine Davis and Paul Sorvino.
• She has a beautiful singing voice. While an undergraduate at Harvard, she appeared as Dulcinea in a 1986 student production of “Man of La Mancha” at the Loeb Experimental Theatre. The show was directed by Peter Sagal. Unfortunately, she came down with a cold during the one week the show ran, and performed with a mug of tea in hand.
• Attended Dwight Englewood High School in Englewood, New Jersey.
• Speaks Mandarin Chinese and French fluently.
• Chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1996).
• Graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1989, with a Bachelor’s degree in Chinese (East Asian Languages and Civilizations). Her honors thesis: “Anti-Africanism in the People’s Republic of China” about the Nanjing Anti-African protests, which won the Harvard Hoopes Prize for writing.

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