Mira Sorvino, a prominent American actress, is well-known for her performances in Norma Jean and Marilyn (1996) and Human Trafficking (2005). She is upset with the death news of a wonderful man and a brilliant actor Paul Sorvino.
Who is Mira Sorvino?
She came into the world on 28th September 1967 in Manhattan, NYC, in the United States. She made her debut in the entertainment industry with the movie The Stuff as Factory Worker in 1985 and her Television debut as Sophia in Swans Crossing in 1992. She is a popular American actress known for her lead role as Marilyn Monroe in a Television film and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her amazing performance. She gave a heart-throbbing performance as Kate Morozov in the movie Human Trafficking in 2005 and got nominated for the Golden Globe Awards.
Mira Sorvino Age, Height, Physical Appearance
Mira Katherine Sorvino was born in 1967 and is 55 years of age as of July 2022. She stands tall at 5 feet 11 inches and weighs around 67 kg. Her birth sign is Libra, and she is an American national. Her ethnicity is Italian. She believes in Christianity and follows Christian culture. She has pretty blue eyes and blonde hair color. She has a slim body shape and has body measurements of 36-26-34. Her bra size is 34B.
Mira Sorvino Family
She was born to her parents, Paul Sorvino and Lorraine Davis. Her father, Paul Sorvino, is a popular actor and director, and her mother, Lorraine Davis, is a drama therapy trainer for the disease Alzheimer’s in addition to her acting skills. She has two siblings, Brother Michael Sorvino and Sister Amanda Sorvino. Both her siblings have established actors in the entertainment industry. She was raised by her parents in Tenafly, NJ, in the United States. She was inspired by her mother to work and donate to a good cause and get involved in charity events.
Mira Sorvino Education
She got enrolled in a local high school for her primary education. With her prolific performance in high school, she got admission to Harvard University. She was an exchange student for a year with CIEE in China, where she spoke Mandarin language and gained fluency in the language. She was upset that she could only speak certain words in Mandarin. She graduated from Harvard University and utilized her degree to assist in the creation of Harvard-Radcliffe overtones.
Mira Sorvino Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband
She dated Joaquin Cortes, a Spanish ballet dancer, in the 1990s. After her breakup, she got in a relationship with Quentin Tarantino for around 2 years, 1996-98. They met at the Toronto Film Festival in September 1995 and started dating in 1996. She then dated Val Kilmer in 1997 and announced their relationship in 1999 when they were up with their shoot of a film At First Sight 1999. The relationship did not last long, and they parted ways.
She was also rumored to be in a relationship with the famous American star Marc Anthony. Marc is a popular singer, actor, producer, song composer, and TV producer. They were speculated to date each other in 1998. She was in a long-distance relationship with Olivier Martinez, whom she met at a dinner event in Paris in 1998. They used to travel miles to meet each other, and Olivier got the opportunity to work on his English and establish himself as a Hollywood actor.
The couple shared a happy relationship and were seen together a couple of times at the events and were even rumored to have gotten engaged in 2001. The French actor was not willing to get married and that led to the separation of the couple.
She also dated American actor Willem Defoe while in relation with Olivier, whom she met in 1998 on the set of Lulu on the Bridge. The relationship did not last long, and she began dating Christopher Paul Backus. They were in a relationship after they met at a friend’s party in August 2003, and they tied their knots in a private civil wedding in June 2004. The couple is blessed with 4 children, 2 sons, Johnny King, born in May 2006, Holden Backus, in June 2009, and 2 daughters, Mattea Angel and Lucia, born in November 2009.
Mira Sorvino Career
She made her debut with the movie The Stuff in 1985 and amassed her fans with her outstanding performance in the TV film Swans Crossing in 1992. She got featured in the Mighty Aphrodite and won the Golden Globe Award for her excellent performance in Human Trafficking in 2006. The very next year, she got featured as a supporting actress in Reservation Road alongside Mark Ruffalo.
She is a legendary American actress who has won Academy Awards, Critics’ Choice Awards, and Golden Globe Awards. She has appeared in Television shows and movies. She got featured in Psych, Falling Skies, Spy Kids, Start Up, Intruders, Stalker, and Hollywood.
Mira Sorvino Net Worth
The popular American actress has given significant performances in multiple movies and Television shows and is estimated to have a net worth of $15 million.
Godfellas fame Paul Sorvino, father of Mira Sorvino dies at 83!
Paul Sorvino, who came into the world in 1939, rose to fame with his role as Paul Cicero in the movie Goodfellas which was released in 1990. Dee Dee Sorvino is completely shaken by the death of an extremely wonderful man and is heartbroken, as she posted on her Facebook account. The legendary actor gave another recognition role in the TV series Law and Order with his role as a policeman. He got featured as Henry Kissinger in the movie Nixon.
Her daughter, who received an Oscar for her exquisite performance in Mighty Aphrodite in 1996, shared the obituary news of his father on her Twitter account. She said that her heart is rent asunder and that an era of love, joy, and wisdom with his father Paul has now ended.
Paul, in an interview with the Orlando Weekly in 2014, said that the majority of people think of him as a policeman or a gangster with his amazing roles as them. Still, in actuality, he is an artist, a painter, sculptor, an opera singer, a poet, and much more. He was the founder of the Asthma Foundation and conducted horse rescue in Pennsylvania. He left the world on 25th July 2022, Monday, at a clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, in the United States.