page_title: Mira Sorvino
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Mira Sorvino / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Mira Sorvino at the Anti-Human Trafficking Symposium: Transforming the Coalition, School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC, January 30, 2013
context_page_description: Mira Katherine Sorvino is an American actress. She won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite.
  She also starred in the films Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Mimic, Lulu on the Bridge, The Replacement Killers, Summer of Sam, and Like Dandelion Dust. For her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in Norma Jean & Marilyn, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and for a Golden Globe for her role in Human Trafficking.
context_section_description: Between 1996 and 1998, Mira Sorvino was romantically involved with director Quentin Tarantino, who was her escort to the Academy Awards ceremony where she won Best Supporting Actress for Mighty Aphrodite.
  Sorvino met actor Christopher Backus at a friend's charades party in August 2003. On June 11, 2004, they married in a private civil ceremony at the Santa Barbara, California, courthouse, then later had a hilltop ceremony in Capri, Italy. The couple has four children: daughters Mattea Angel (born 2004) and Lucia (born 2012) and sons Johnny Christopher King (born 2006) and Holden Paul Terry Backus (born 2009).
  In honor of Sorvino's role as Susan Tyler, an entomologist who was investigating deadly insect mutations in the feature film Mimic, the discovery of a compound excreted by the sunburst diving beetle as a defense mechanism was named "mirasorvone" by entomologist Thomas Eisner.
  In September 2014, Sorvino gave a wide-ranging interview on The Nerdist Podcast in which she discusses her education and her life in China, and many of her varied interests. Sorvino is a Christian. She resides with her family in Los Angeles, California.
  In 2017, Mira Sorvino came out publicly about the sexual harassment she endured from producer Harvey Weinstein. As one of his many victims, Sorvino believes that her career may have been damaged after rebuffing Weinstein's advances. According to Peter Jackson, Weinstein blacklisted Sorvino and Ashley Judd, another alleged victim of Weinstein, from being considered for casting in The Lord of the Rings films. In 2019 she also made public that she is a date rape survivor.
caption: Sorvino at the Anti-Human Trafficking Symposium in Washington, D.C., January 30, 2013
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