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Mia Kirshner (born January 25, 1975)
is a Canadian actress who works in movies and television series. She is
best known for her portrayal of Jenny Schecter on Showtime's hit
television drama series, The L Word, a show about the lives of a group of
lesbians and bisexuals living in West Hollywood, California.
Kirshner was born in Toronto, Ontario, the daughter of Etti, a teacher,
and Sheldon Kirshner, a journalist who writes for The Canadian Jewish
News. Kirshner is a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors; her father was
born in a displaced persons camp in Germany in 1946 and met Kirshner's
mother, a Bulgarian Jewish refugee, in Israel. Kirshner had a middle class
upbringing and studied Russian literature and 20th-century movie industry
at McGill University in Montreal. Her little sister, Lauren Kirshner, a
writer, was involved in the I Live Here project.
In 1993, Kirshner played a dominatrix in Denys Arcand's Love and Human
Remains and won a Genie nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a
Supporting Role. The following year, she starred in Atom Egoyan's Exotica.
In 1996, she appeared in The Crow: City of Angels.
Kirshner also appeared in the first three episodes of 24 as the bisexual
assassin 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 season. Also
in 2001, Kirshner played Catherine Wyler, The Cruelest Girl in School, in
Not Another Teen Movie. The character is primarily a spoof of Kathryn
Merteuil (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar) in Cruel Intentions, and was
partially based on Mackenzie Siler (played by Anna Paquin) from She's All
That. In Marilyn Manson's music video for "Tainted Love", which was
featured on the movie's soundtrack, she made a cameo appearance as her
character Catherine Wyler.
In 2004, Kirshner was cast as author Jenny Schecter, a main character in
the drama series The L Word. She remained with the show for all of the
show's six seasons through 2009.
In 2006, she starred in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia in which she
plays the young aspiring actress, Elizabeth Short, who was mysteriously
mutilated and murdered in 1947. Kirshner will star in 30 Days of Night:
Dark Days which began filming in the fall of 2009 and in late December
2009 earned the role of Isobel Saltzman in The Vampire Diaries.
Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons, as well as writer James MacKinnon. In
the book, four different groups of women and children refugees from places
such as Chechnya, Juárez, Burma and Malawi tell their life stories. The
book features original material from well-known comic and graphic artists
including Joe Sacco and Phoebe Gloeckner. It was published in the U.S. by
Random House/Pantheon. It was supported logistically by Amnesty
International, which will receive proceeds from the book. After the
release of the book, the Center for International Studies at MIT invited
Kirshner to run a 4-week course on I Live Here in January 2009.
Kirshner was ranked #43 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2002. She and
Beverly Polcyn were nominated for Best Kiss at the 2002 MTV Movie Awards
for Not Another Teen Movie. |
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30 Days of Night: Dark Days
(2010) .... Lilith
"The Vampire Diaries" .... Isobel (1 episode, 2010)
- Bloodlines (2010) TV episode .... Isobel
"CSI: NY" .... Deborah Carter (1 episode, 2009)
- Dead Reckoning (2009) TV episode .... Deborah Carter
"The Cleaner" .... April May (1 episode, 2009)
- Does Everybody Have a Drink? (2009) TV episode .... April May
"The L Word" .... Jenny Schecter (70 episodes, 2004-2009)
- Last Word (2009) TV episode .... Jenny Schecter
- Last Couple Standing (2009) TV episode .... Jenny Schecter
- Lactose Intolerant (2009) TV episode .... Jenny Schecter
- Litmus Test (2009) TV episode .... Jenny Schecter
- Leaving Los Angeles (2009) TV episode .... Jenny Schecter
(65 more)
Miss Conception (2008) .... Clem
... aka Last Minute Baby (Germany: DVD title)
... aka Miss Conception (USA: new title)
They Come Back (2007) (TV) .... Faith Hardy
The Black Dahlia (2006) .... Elizabeth Short
... aka Black Dahlia (Germany)
... aka Die schwarze Dahlie (Germany: TV title)
24: The Game (2006) (VG) (voice) (uncredited) .... Mandy
"24" .... Mandy (7 episodes, 2001-2005)
- Day 4: 5:00 a.m.-6:00 a.m. (2005) TV episode .... Mandy
- Day 4: 6:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m. (2005) TV episode .... Mandy
- Day 4: 4:00 a.m.-5:00 a.m. (2005) TV episode (uncredited) ....
Mandy
- Day 2: 7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m. (2003) TV episode (uncredited) ....
Mandy
- 2:00 a.m.-3:00 a.m. (2001) TV episode .... Mandy
(2 more)
The Iris Effect (2004) .... Rebecca
... aka Exile (Russia)
Party Monster (2003) .... Natasha
Now & Forever (2002) .... Angela Wilson
"Wolf Lake" .... Ruby Cates / ... (7 episodes, 2001-2002)
- If These Wolves Could Talk (2002) TV episode .... Ruby Cates
- Legend of Lost Lenore (2002) TV episode .... Ruby Wilder/Ruby
Cates
- Leader of the Pack (2002) TV episode .... Ruby Cates
- Tastes Like Chicken (2001) TV episode .... Ruby Wilder/Ruby Cates
- Soup to Nuts (2001) TV episode .... Ruby Wilder/Ruby Cates
(2 more)
New Best Friend (2002) .... Alicia Campbell
Not Another Teen Movie (2001) .... Catherine Wyler
... aka Sex Academy (Europe: English title: new title)
According to Spencer (2001) .... Melora
... aka Der Pechvogel (Germany: new title)
... aka Garage Sale
Century Hotel (2001) .... Dominique
Cowboys and Angels (2000) .... Candice
... aka Kissed by an Angel (USA: MIFED title)
Dark Summer (2000) .... Dominique Denright
... aka Blond und skrupellos (Germany)
... aka Innocents (USA)
Out of the Cold (1999) .... Deborah Berkowitz
Saturn (1999) .... Sarah
... aka Speed of Life (USA: DVD title)
Mad City (1997) .... Laurie Callahan
Anna Karenina (1997) .... Kitty
The Crow: City of Angels (1996) .... Sarah
... aka The Crow II
The Grass Harp (1995) .... Maude Riordan
Johnny's Girl (1995) (TV) .... Amy
Murder in the First (1995) .... Adult Rosetta Young
... aka Meurtre à Alcatraz (France)
Exotica (1994) .... Christina
Love & Human Remains (1993) .... Benita
... aka Amour et restes humains (Canada: French title)
Cadillac Girls (1993) .... Page
"Sweating Bullets" .... Cathy Paige / ... (2 episodes, 1991-1992)
... aka Tropical Heat
- Stranger in Paradise (1992) TV episode .... Sandy
- Runaway (1991) TV episode .... Cathy Paige
"Are You Afraid of the Dark?" .... Dora Pease / ... (1 episode,
1992)
- The Tale of the Hungry Hounds (1992) TV episode .... Pam/Dora
Pease
"Road to Avonlea" .... Emily Everett-Smythe (1 episode, 1992)
... aka Avonlea (USA)
... aka Tales from Avonlea (USA: video title)
- High Society (1992) TV episode .... Emily Everett-Smythe
"Dracula: The Series" .... Sophie Metternich (21 episodes,
1990-1991)
- My Dinner with Lucard (1991) TV episode .... Sophie Metternich
- Bats in the Attic (1991) TV episode .... Sophie Metternich
- I Love Lucard (1991) TV episode .... Sophie Metternich
- The Decline of the Romanian Vampire (1991) TV episode .... Sophie
Metternich
- My Fair Vampire (1991) TV episode .... Sophie Metternich
(16 more)
"My Secret Identity" .... Alana Porter (1 episode, 1991)
- My Other Secret Identity (1991) TV episode .... Alana Porter
"Danger Bay" .... Catherine Walker (1 episode, 1990)
- Live Wires (1990) TV episode .... Catherine Walker
"War of the Worlds" .... Jo (1 episode, 1989)
... aka War of the Worlds: The Second Invasion (USA: second season
title)
- Loving the Alien (1989) TV episode .... Jo |
