Personal details
- Birth Date: 1967-09-28
- Height: 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Birth Location: New York City, New York, USA
- Children: (4 children) Holden Backus
- Parents: Paul Sorvino
- Professions: Actress, Producer, Soundtrack
Mira Sorvino, born in Manhattan on September 28, 1967, pretty much grew up surrounded by the arts—her mom’s an actress-turned-drama therapist, and her dad, Paul Sorvino, you might know from a million gangster flicks. She was the classic overachiever: super smart, obsessed with books, and nailed her studies at Harvard, majoring in Chinese. She even spent a year in Beijing, wrote a killer thesis on racial conflict, and walked away magna cum laude, fluent in Mandarin. Not too shabby. Her dad wasn’t thrilled about her jumping into acting—he’d seen enough young stars get wrecked by the business—but she couldn’t resist. After college, she hustled in New York: waiting tables, auditioning all over, and working at De Niro’s Tribeca shop. She snagged some TV gigs in the early '90s, but things really took off with Amongst Friends in ‘93, where she worked behind the scenes, then landed the female lead. That indie got her noticed, leading to Barcelona and Quiz Show. Both flicks showed she had serious chops. Then came the big leap: Woody Allen cast her in Mighty Aphrodite, even though nobody saw her as the wild hooker type. She absolutely killed it—won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at just 29. After that, she kept mixing it up: playing Marilyn Monroe, tackling action (Mimic, The Replacement Killers), and making everyone crack up as Romy White in Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion. That last role? Total pop culture legend. Off-screen, she married Christopher Backus in 2004, and now they’ve got four kids running around.
referencennShe’s got Mandarin and French down pat—like, not just a few phrases, but actual full-on fluency. You throw her in a room in Beijing or Paris, she’s not just ordering coffee, she’s holding her own in heated debates or cracking jokes with locals. It’s wild, honestly. Most folks struggle with one language, and here she is juggling two, and not even sweating it. The accent? Nailed. The slang? She’s got that too. You’d never guess she wasn’t born and raised in either place. It makes her a bit of a chameleon; she can slide into different cultures like it’s no big deal. People tend to underestimate how much that opens doors. It’s not just about talking, but understanding how people tick, what makes them laugh or trust you. Total game changer in any scene—whether you’re talking spy stuff, world travel, or just showing off at a party.
referencennYou ever feel like you’re living two totally different lives at once? That’s kinda the vibe here. On one hand, you’ve got this East Coast-educated, probably Ivy League, buttoned-up brainiac persona—blazers, books, big words, you know the drill. But then there’s this wild streak, this part that just wants to toss all that out the window, slip into a ridiculous pink angora bikini, and plaster your face on every greasy garage wall from Jersey to California. It’s that inner rebel who’s dying to break free from the “respectable” mold, channeling some classic pin-up energy, all curves and sass and not a care in the world about what anyone thinks. The tension between those two sides—prim and proper versus wild and unapologetic—is basically a tug-of-war for the soul. And honestly? That’s what makes things so interesting.
September 28, 1967
5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
Konidela Ram Charan
New York City, New York, USA
Yes, Holden Backus
Paul Sorvino and Surekha
57 years old