Mia Kirshner
Born 01/25/1975
(49 years old)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Biography
Born in Toronto, Canada, Mia Kirshner came from a family of Holocaust survivors; her journalist father was born in a displaced camp in Germany and her mother was a Bulgarian-Jewish refugee. Kirshner studied Russian literature at McGill University in Montreal while pursuing an acting career in the early 1990s.
Kirshner portrayed a young, clairvoyant, dominatrix in Deny Arcand's Love and Human Remains before her memorable turn in Atom Egoyan's Exotica. In 1995, Kirshner had supporting roles in the Southern coming-of-age tale, The Grass Harp, starring Sissy Spacek and Walter Matthau. She then played the lead opposite Vincent Perez in The Crow: City of Angels (1996). Kirshner revealed a lighter side with a featured role in the spoof comedy Not Another Teen Movie.
In 2001, she appeared throughout the duration of the series as a professional assassin in the action-filled drama, 24 starring Kiefer Sutherland. The talented actress was then cast in the critically acclaimed series The L Word, which centered on a small, close-knit group of lesbians living in Los Angeles. She played a twenty-something writer, Jenny Schecter. After the The L Word, she starred in Brian De Palma's movie The Black Dahlia, alongside Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson and Hilary Swank, playing the young actress Elizabeth Short, who was horrifically murdered in 1947.
Kirshner also has co-written a book, I Live Here, Published by Pantheon Books, which is a four volume anthology detailing the lives of refugees and displaced people focusing on hidden stories. Kirshner traveled and collected stories from Ingushetia (on the border of Chechnya), Burma, Juarez (Mexico) and Malawi. She has also founded I Live Here Projects, which runs a full time school in Kachere Juvinile Prison, located in Lilongwe Malawi.
Actress
Movies | |
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2021 |
Crisis |
2020 |
Love, Lights, Hanukkah! (TV movie) |
2019 |
The College Admissions Scandal (TV movie) |
2017 |
A Swingers Weekend |
2016 |
Milton's Secret |
2015 |
Reluctant Witness (TV movie) |
2013 |
I Think I Do |
The Surrogacy Trap (TV movie) |
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2012 |
Kiss at Pine Lake (TV movie) |
The Barrens |
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2011 |
388 Arletta Avenue |
2010 |
30 Days of Night: Dark Days |
2008 |
Miss Conception |
2007 |
They Come Back (TV movie) |
2006 |
The Black Dahlia |
2005 |
The Iris Effect |
2003 |
Party Monster |
2002 |
New Best Friend |
Now & Forever |
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2001 |
According to Spencer |
Century Hotel |
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Not Another Teen Movie |
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2000 |
Cowboys and Angels |
Dark Summer |
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1999 |
Out of the Cold |
Saturn |
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1997 |
Anna Karenina |
Mad City |
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1996 |
The Crow: City of Angels |
1995 |
Johnny's Girl (TV movie) |
Murder in the First |
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The Grass Harp |
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1994 |
Exotica |
1993 |
Cadillac Girls |
Love & Human Remains |
Documentaries | |
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2010 |
The Gritty Realism of Dark Days |
2009 |
The L Word: Special |
2002 |
Making of Dark Summer |
Music videos | |
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2001 |
Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love |
Short | |
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2015 |
Never Happened |
Fans
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