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+ | * While filming for [[Season 4|Day 4]], [[Carlos Bernard]] set up a practical joke where he had his cop friends arrest Kirshner for smoking marijuana on the set. His friends took the joke too far, and Kirshner was unable to continue her scenes with Bernard. [[Kiefer Sutherland]] commented that the director of the episode was reportedly very upset. |
== Filmography == |
== Filmography == |
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| Birthdate: | January 25, 1975 |
| Birthplace: | Toronto, Ontario |
| Role: | Mandy |
Mia Kirshner played the mercenary Mandy during Day 1, Day 2 and Day 4 of 24.
Biography
She is a grandaughter of Holocaust survivors. Her father, Sheldon, a journalist for The Canadian Jewish News, was born in a displaced person camp in Germany in 1946. He met her mother, Etti, a Bulgarian Jewish refugee, in Israel. Kirshner has a younger sister. Kirshner studied Russian literature and 20th Century Movie Industry at McGill University in Montreal.
In 1993 she played a dominatrix in Denys Arcand's movie Love and Human Remains. She won a Genie nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. The year after she starred in Atom Egoyan's Exotica. This performance won her a Cannes Critics Choice Award. Recently, Kirshner also played Elizabeth Short in Brian De Palma's 2006 The Black Dahlia, alongside Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Gregg Henry, and Hillary Swank. Other films in which she has starred are Murder in the First, The Crow: City of Angels, Mad City (with Lucinda Jenney), Century Hotel (with Colm Feore), and Not Another Teen Movie (with Daniel Bess).
On TV, she has starred in shows like "Dracula: The Series" (with Geraint Wyn Davies), "Sweating Bullets", and "Wolf Lake" (with Lou Diamond Phillips). She is currently a main cast member of the Showtime series "The L Word", where she plays Jennifer Schecter, a sexually confused fiction writer. On the show she has worked with Eric Lively, Roger Cross, Keram Malicki-Sanchez, and Peter Wingfield.
She is also working on the book "I Live Here", which chronicles the plight of women and children refugees from dangerous places such as Chechnya, Juarez (Mexico) and Africa, telling their disturbing life stories.
Background information and notes
- While filming for Day 4, Carlos Bernard set up a practical joke where he had his cop friends arrest Kirshner for smoking marijuana on the set. His friends took the joke too far, and Kirshner was unable to continue her scenes with Bernard. Kiefer Sutherland commented that the director of the episode was reportedly very upset.
Filmography
- The Black Dahlia (2006)
- The L Word (2004)
- Party Monster (2003)
- Now and Forever (2002)
- New Best Friend (2002)
- Century Hotel (2001)
- Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
- Wolf Lake (2001)
- Mad City (1997)
- Anna Karenina (1997)
- The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
- Murder in the First (1995)
- Exotica (1994)
- Love and Human Remains (1993)
- Dracula: The Series (1990)
