When the 1993 film Amongst Friends entered preproduction, she was hired as third assistant director, then promoted to casting director, then to assistant producer, and finally offered a lead role. Sorvino's first major screen appearance was in the teen television series Swans Crossing, where she appeared in six episodes. She also helped found the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones, one of Harvard's co-ed a cappella groups, in 1985.
In 1989, she graduated from Harvard magna cum laude with a degree in East Asian studies. She studied for one year as an exchange student with CIEE in Beijing, China, where she studied Mandarin Chinese. Sorvino excelled in high school and was accepted into Harvard University.
As a child, she was strongly influenced to pursue social causes by her mother, who participated in the March on Washington. She was raised in Tenafly, New Jersey, where she wrote and acted in backyard plays with her childhood friend Hope Davis, and in theater productions at Dwight-Englewood School. She is of Italian descent on her father's side. She has two siblings, Michael Sorvino and Amanda. Sorvino was born on Septemin Manhattan, New York City, to Lorraine Ruth Davis, a drama therapist for Alzheimer's disease patients and former actress and Paul Sorvino, an actor and film director. For her work in television, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996), and twice nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film, again for her performance as Marilyn Monroe and her leading role in Human Trafficking (2005). She also starred in the films Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), Mimic (1997), Lulu on the Bridge (1998), The Replacement Killers (1998), Summer of Sam (1999), and Like Dandelion Dust (2009). She won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995). Mira Katherine Sorvino ( / ˈ m iː r ə s ɔːr ˈ v iː n oʊ/ born September 28, 1967) is an American actress. Michael Sorvino (brother), Amanda (sister)
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