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Mia Kirshner
Born:
Mia Kirshner,
January 25, 1976,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height:
5' 5"
Father:
Sheldon, born in Germany, a journalist,
a newsman with the Canadian Jewish News
Mother: Etti, born in Bulgaria,
a teacher
Education: Attended McGill University in Montreal where she studied Russian Literature
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The daughter of a journalist father and a mother who's a teacher, Kirshner began acting in grade school and made her professional debut in her early teens, accruing Canadian and American television credits before segueing into film.
While still in high school, giving "precocious teenager" a new meaning, Kirshner played a doom-divining dominatrix in Love and Human Remains for Arcand, one of Canada's most acclaimed filmmakers; in Egoyan's Exotica, during filming of which at age 17 she became CAA's youngest female client and for which she won a Genie nomination, Kirshner portrayed a schoolgirl-attired lap dancer.
Most recently, she plays Jenny on the hit Showtime series, The L Word. |
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*Mia
on TV
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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.”
"I find darkness more interesting than light. In darkness there's so much more texture, but light can be very beautiful, too. So characters with that darkness in them that seem very light fascinate me."
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