• Name: Mira Sorvino
  
• Height: 5' 9"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: September 28, 1967
  
• Birth Place: Tenafly, New Jersey, USA
  
• Profession: actress, producer
  
• Education: Harvard University (majored in Asian Studies; graduated in 1990; B.A.; Magna Cum Laude)
  
•   : Diwight Englewood High School in Englewood, New Jersey
  
• Husband/Wife: Christopher Backus (actor; married on June 11, 2004)
  
• Relationship: Quentin Tarantino (filmmaker; born on March 27, 1963; together from January 1996 to February 1998)
  
• Father: Paul Sorvino (actor; born on April 13, 1939; divorced in 1988)
  
• Mother: Lorraine Sorvino
  
• Sister: Amanda Sorvino (drama student; born in 1971)
  
• Brother: Michael Sorvino
  
• Step Mother: Vanessa Arico (married on March 20, 1991; divorced in 1996)
  
• Claim to fame: as Linda Ash in Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
  

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• "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!"
• On the joys of not going past first base: "I had a Christian upbringing -- it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen -- not even second base."

• Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress, MIGHTY APHRODITE (1996)
• Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: Best Supporting Actress, MIGHTY APHRODITE (1996)
• Dallas-Forth Worth Film Critics Association Awards: Best Supporting Actress, MIGHTY APHRODITE (1996)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, MIGHTY APHRODITE (1996)
• Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards: Best Supporting Actress, MIGHTY APHRODITE (1996)
• National Board of Review: Best Supporting Actress, MIGHTY APHRODITE (1995)
• New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Supporting Actress, MIGHTY APHRODITE (1995)

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