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Mira Sorvino

Mira Sorvino

Academy Award-winning Actress, #MeToo & Human Rights Advocate

Mira Sorvino is an Academy Award-winning actress, documentary filmmaker,

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Mira Sorvino is an Academy Award-winning actress, documentary filmmaker, United Nations Goodwill Ambassador and lifelong champion of victims of social injustice. She has become one of the most passionate voices of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements since going on record in Ronan Farrow’s story-breaking New Yorker exposé. Now enjoying a career upsurge after years of confirmed blacklisting, Sorvino stars in the AT&T espionage drama, Condor with William Hurt, Brendan Fraser and Max Irons and a recurring role on ABC’s Modern Family. She also continues her social activism, advocating for stronger sexual harassment legislation, the Equal Rights Amendment, and her long-time causes of advancing cancer research, ending human trafficking and championing the rights of women and girls around the world. Sorvino has recently teamed up with her husband, Christopher Backus, her sister Amanda Sorvino, and Sky Studios-backed producer Catalina Content on Transformation Ranch, a series using expert-led animal therapy to help the survivors of human trafficking.

Sorvino first gained worldwide attention for her 1995 Oscar and Golden Globe-winning role in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite. She followed with an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in Norma Jean and Marilyn and the iconic comedy, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion. In 2005, she combined her passion for human rights advocacy with acting, starring in the Lifetime miniseries Human Trafficking, for which she earned another Golden Globe nomination. The role also propelled Sorvino onto the world stage as an advocate for victims of human trafficking and sexual abuse. Sorvino served as official ambassador for Amnesty International’s “Stop Violence Against Women” campaign and was appointed a UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) Goodwill Ambassador in the global fight against human trafficking. She also hosted the award-winning CNN documentary on human trafficking, Every Day in Cambodia. Sorvino’s humanitarian efforts have earned multiple honors, including Amnesty International’s Artist of Conscience Award. In March of 2018, she was honored for her body of work and recent leadership in Time’s Up as the first recipient of UCLA’s Promise Institute Award honoring contributions to the to human rights through the arts. Sorvino is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University. During her time as an East Asian studies major, she spent a year in pre-Tiananmen Square Beijing, becoming fluent in Mandarin. She credits her love of acting to her father, actor Paul Sorvino and her passion for activism to her mother, Lorraine Ruth Davis, who marched with Martin Luther King. Along with her husband, actor, director and screenwriter Christopher Backus, she is the mother of four children.

A high level communicator known for preparing and researching her keynotes to make them highly relevant to each audience, Sorvino is also known for touching hearts and motivating action. Applauded for her intelligence, passion, eloquence and graciousness, her keynotes are an unforgettable encounter with one of Hollywood’s most courageous, committed and accomplished women.

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#MeToo: From Silence to Worldwide Advocacy

Inspiring Women: The Individuals Who Have Shaped My Life

From Harvard to Hollywood: Life Lessons Learned from a Woman on a Mission

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‘Condor’ Star Mira Sorvino On Harvey Weinstein: ‘He’s Raped Many People I Love’ | TODAY
Oscar winner Mira Sorvino on "Most Guys Are Losers" and her career

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