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| Birth Name(s) : Mia Kirshner |
Date of Birth: January 25, 1976 |
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As the sun rises, an exotic beauty scrambles up a mountaintop in Morocco. It could be a scene out of Fox's espionage series, 24, but it's actually Mia Kirshner's "what I did last summer" story: "There were four men in the group I was climbing with, and none of them thought I could do it. I think they were shocked to see me up there. It was such a great 'Screw you.' "
But don't you dare compare this actress to the badass babe she plays on TV. The tragedies of September 11 have given Kirshner a whole new perspective on her character, Mandy, an assassin tracked by the show's hero, Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland). "I had to drive back from Vancouver to Los Angeles--20 hours--so all I was doing in the car was reading the profiles of the hijackers, and it actually made me a little sick to be going back to play this character." (Note to Fox execs: Kirshner still loves the series. She says, "I'm proud to be a part of something that smart.")
Taking the road less traveled is a specialty for Canadian-born Kirshner. Until recently, she was best known for her art-house roles as a dominatrix in Love & Human Remains and an exotic dancer in Atom Egoyan's Exotica. That is, until she was cast in both 24 and the CBS series Wolf Lake. Briefly, she stood on the bizarre cusp as one of a few actors starring in simultaneous series on rival networks--and then Wolf Lake howled its last. But the combo casting did bring her some well-deserved recognition.
Kirshner got a bit of comic relief recently with her role as Catherine, the cruelest girl in school, in Not Another Teen Movie. This year, she stars as the object of Jesse Bradford's (Bring It On) affection in the romantic comedy According to Spencer. But these roles were a detour rather than a new direction for the intense actress.
Kirshner gets her dark groove back with the murderous Mary Jane's Last Dance, a sort of collegiate Single White Female. "There must be something I like about these darker characters, because I keep going back to them." |
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Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, she is the daughter of Sheldon Kirshner, a journalist for The Canadian Jewish News, who was born in a displaced person camp in Germany in 1946. He met her mother, Etti, a Bulgarian Jewish refugee, in Israel. She is a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors.
In 1993, she played a dominatrix in Denys Arcand's movie Love and Human Remains and won a Genie nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. The year after she starred in Atom Egoyan's Exotica. In 1995, she auditioned for the role of Jennie in the controversial Larry Clark film Kids (1995), however lost out to Chloe Sevigny.
Kirshner appeared in the first three episodes of 24 as bisexual terrorist Mandy in 2001. She would later reprise the role for the second season's finale and in the latter half of the show's fourth series.
In 2006, she starred in Brian De Palma's movie The Black Dahlia, alongside Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson and Hilary Swank. Kirshner plays a young actress, Elizabeth Short, who was horrifically murdered in 1947.
Kirshner has portrayed Jenny Schecter on the hit Showtime series, The L Word since the show began in 2004. She recently reprised her role in season four, which began airing on Showtime on January 7, 2007.
She and Beverly Polcyn were nominated for Best Kiss at the 2002 MTV Movie Awards for Not Another Teen Movie. |
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| 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. |
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