Mira Sorvino

 Mira Katherine Sorvino was born on September 28, 1967, in Manhattan. She is the daughter of Lorraine Davis, an actress turned drama therapist, and veteran character actor Paul Sorvino. Her father's family included Italian immigrants. Sorvino was a young Sorvino was smart she was a voracious reader, and an exceptional scholar. Because her father was aware of the ways in which acting consume young actors, he was hesitant to stop her from becoming one. She went to Harvard where she studied Chinese and graduating with the magna cum laude in 1989, largely on the strength of her thesis, a Hoopes Prize-winning dissertation about racial conflicts in China, written and researched during her time in Beijing and Beijing, which contributed to her proficiency in Chinese. Chinese.However, she showed interest in acting careers at an early age and moved to New York City to try her hand in the City's film industry, waitingressing, auditioning, and working for the Tribeca production company of Robert De Niro. She managed to land some TV work in the early 1990s, however, she was able to land her first film gig in the gangster film of the same name, which was an independent production. Amongst Friends (1993)