Mira Sorvino Eye Color and Picture

nateboy · #1 (**permalink**) 05-03-2006, 01:30 PM

Nice natural picture of Mira's brown eyes. I haven't seen much of her lately, though.

Occupation: Actress
Real Name: Mira Katherine Sorvino
Date of Birth: September 28, 1967
Place of Birth: Tenafly, N.J., USA
Eye Color: Brown
Height: 5' 10''
Sign: Libra
Father: Paul Sorvino (actor);
mother: Lorraine Sorvino;
ex-boyfriend: Quentin Tarantino;
Education: Harvard University, earned a B.A. in East Asian Studies (1990)

An exceptionally poised and articulate young woman, she may have seemed inappropriate to play a loopy 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) (TV), co-starring with another very intelligent and skilled young actress, Ashley Judd. Forays into action and horror, such as 1997's Mimic (1997) and 1998's 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 dopey California beach girl Romy in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), in which she and co-star Lisa Kudrow utter one hilarious absurdity after another.

Sorvino married Christopher Backus in 2004, and the couple had a daughter later that year.
IMDb mini-biography by
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Spouse
Christopher Backus (11 June 2004 - present) 1 child
Trivia

Graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1989, with a BA 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.

Dated Olivier Martinez. [1999-2002]

Dated Quentin Tarantino. [1996 - February 1998]

Chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world [1996]

Speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese.

Attended Dwight Englewood High School in Englewood, New Jersey.

Is fluent in French.

Measurements: 34 1/2-24-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

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.

Parents names are Lorraine Davis and Paul Sorvino.

Has a brother named Michael and a sister named Amanda.

Childhood friend of Hope Davis; they performed plays for the neighbors.

Was a founding member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones, Harvard's premier co-ed a cappella group. [1985]

Married actor Christopher Backus on June 11th 2004 in a civil service in Santa Monica and then had their formal ceremony on the island of Capri in Italy since Mira is Italian and this was to honor her Italian roots. She wore a gown designed by Giorgio Armani.

Met her husband when he waited on her at a restaurant called Sur Restaurant & Grill in West Hollywood. [Spring 2003]

Gave birth to daughter Mattea Angel, with husband Christopher Backus, on November 3, 2004 in Los Angeles.

Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997

Mira and her husband, Christopher Backus, are expecting their second child, due in Summer, 2006.

She and her husband, Christopher Backus, have both guest-starred on the TV-show "Will & Grace" (1998), though not in the same episode.

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.
Personal quotes

"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!"

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