Profile: Mia Kirshner

Birth Date: January 25, 1975

Birth Place: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Occupation: Actress

Height: 5' 5"

Quote: “It’s not me to sleep with loads of men, but I do believe in having different experiences. At the end of the day, the nicest thing is the old-fashioned one-on-one.”

Quote: “What makes a woman sensual to me is that she seems willing to explore. There’s something naughty in that—that she’s not afraid to do bad things.”

Mia Kirshner Biography

Canadian actress Mia Kirshner is known in her native country and beyond for her portrayals of moderately to deeply troubled young women who often harbor dark secrets. Born in Toronto in 1976, where she was raised by a journalist father and a teacher mother, Kirshner broke into films in 1993. That year, she starred as a bad seed teenager intent on seducing her mother's boyfriend in Cadillac Girls and played a dominatrix in Denys Arcand's Love and Human Remains.

Kirshner had another career breakthrough the following year playing a young stripper with a surprising past identity in Atom Egoyan's widely acclaimed Exotica. The actress' work in the celebrated film attracted the notice of American casting agents, who promptly cast her in supporting roles in Murder in the First (1995) and the Southern gothic coming-of-age tale The Grass Harp (also 1995). Although she subsequently won lead roles in The Crow: City of Angels (1996) -- in which she played up her dark Goth looks as the tattoo artist who befriends Vincent Perez -- and Mad City (1997), which cast her as journalist Dustin Hoffman's intern, Kirshner has had difficulty making a name for herself in Hollywood. She continues to appear in both lead and supporting roles in such independent and/or small features as Saturn (1999), a drama that cast her as the hedonistic girlfriend of a young man (Scott Caan) caring for his Alzheimer's-stricken father. Keeping busy well into the new millennium, Kirshner would later appear in the real-time television series 24, as well as Not Another Teen Movie (both 2001), a parody of the recent wave of high school themed films.

Mia Kirshner Filmography

Sky Is Green, The (2004) .... Mara
ExLife (2004) .... Rebecca
"L Word, The" (2004) TV Series .... Jenny Schecter
Party Monster (2003) .... Natasha
Now & Forever (2002) .... Angela Wilson
New Best Friend (2002) .... Alicia Campbell
Not Another Teen Movie (2001) .... Catherine Wyler
According to Spencer (2001) .... Melora
"Wolf Lake" (2001) TV Series .... Ruby Wilder/Ruby Cates
Century Hotel (2001) .... Dominique
Cowboys and Angels (2000) .... Candice
Out of the Cold (1999) .... Deborah Berkowitz
Dark Summer (1999) .... Dominique Denright
Saturn (1999) .... Sarah
Mad City (1997) .... Laurie
Anna Karenina (1997) .... Kitty
Crow: City of Angels, The (1996) .... Sarah
Grass Harp, The (1995) .... Maude Riordan
Johnny's Girl (1995) (TV) .... Amy
Murder in the First (1995) .... Adult Rosetta Young
Exotica (1994) .... Christina
Cadillac Girls (1993) .... Page
Love & Human Remains (1993) .... Benita
"Dracula: The Series" (1990) TV Series .... Sophie Metternich

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