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Mira Katherine Sorvino is an Academy Award-winning American actress born in Tenafly, New Jersey to drama therapist, Lorraine Davis and actor Paul Sorvino. Paul Sorvino, a noted actor, encouraged his children to pursue other career paths. Despite this, Mira participated in backyard plays and school productions. After graduating Dwight-Englewood High School, she went on to Harvard University where she graduated with honors and a degree in East Asian Studies. One year of her education was spent in Beijing, as an exchange student giving her the opportunity to achieve fluency in Mandarin.
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Mira Katherine Sorvino, daughter of an Italian American character actor Paul Sorvino was born in 1967 in New Jersey. She found her niche as an actress first in theatre then on screen but quite against her father's wish At the age of five, she performed in a self-written play, The Dutch Doll in collaboration with her friend. This strong impulse of acting later developed in full-fledged form when she stepped into Hollywood
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Born in Tenafly, NJ, on September 28, 1967, Sorvino is the daughter of character actor Paul Sorvino, best known for roles in films like Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990). Initially, her father attempted to steer Sorvino and her two siblings away from the acting profession. He was particularly adamant that his offspring not do any professional acting during childhood, so Sorvino contented herself with appearing in various school productions. Following her high school graduation, she earned a degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University; she spent one year of her education as an exchange student in Beijing, China, where she became fluent in Mandarin.
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Oscar-winning actress MIRA SORVINO, 38, is pregnant with her second child, due next summer, according to People magazine. The 'Mighty Aphrodite' star and her hubby, CHRIS BACKUS, 24, already have a 1-year-old daughter, MATTEA. The couple wed in June 2004. Sorvino, daughter of actor PAUL SORVINO, is nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance in the TV miniseries "Human Trafficking."
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Sorvino, who won a supporting-actress Oscar for Woody Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite" in 1995, has appeared in films including "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" and "Quiz Show." She is the daughter of actor Paul Sorvino.
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Respect is one of those words you can bet Mira and her younger brother and sister learned early growing up in Paul Sorvino's house, where Italian-American tradition is alive and well. I told Mira that when I think of her father, one of the the enduring issues/15/images is the scene in Goodfellas where he demonstrates his method for preparing the garlic with a razor and slicing it up so thin that it liquifies in the pan with just a little oil. "It's a very good system," Ray Liotta says, approvingly.
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