What happened to Mira Sorvino? 'Tart with a heart' to toy-boy bliss - Look at her now
WHAT HAPPENED to Mira Sorvino? She won an Oscar 20 years ago in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite and is back on TV screens today. Guess what she looks like now.
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Mira is back on our television screens this afternoon in a rather low-key Christmas confection, A Christmas To Remember, from 2016.
It's a long way from her Oscar-winning glory days in the 1990s - can anyone remember where she has been for the last two decades?
The daughter of Hollywood heavyweight Paul Sorvino hit the highpoint of her career in 1996 when she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, beating our very own Kate Winslet for the very genteel Sense and Sensibility. By contrast, Mira played the quintessential "tart with a heart" in Woody Allen's urban comedy.
Now 49, the star is looking as good as ever.
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The following year saw another career highpoint with Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion. As well as "inventing Post-Its", Mira starred alongside Lisa Kudrow. The two stars still keep hopes alive of a reunion with teasing comments to fans. Watch a classic clip below.
After playing a high-school loser who blossomed later in life, Mira found her own happiness later in life, when she married a man 12 years her junior.
After meeting producer Christopher Backus at a charades party, the Oscar-winner married her boy-toy in 2004 when she was 36 and he was 24.
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The happy pair now have three children and are a regular fixture together on red carpets and the film festival circuit.
Strangely, Mira didn't look quite so happy standing next to Kevin Spacey on the night of her Oscar triumph. Spacey won that year for The Usual Suspects.
Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston recently declared that Spacey's career was over and he could never work again, following a string of allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse.
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Mira has continues to work steadily since her Oscar triumph.
As well as big screen roles in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), Mimic (1997), Lulu on the Bridge (1998), The Replacement Killers (1998), Summer of Sam (1999), and Like Dandelion Dust (2009), she received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for her role in Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996), and a Golden Globe nomination for her role in Human Trafficking (2005).
MIRA SORVINO STARS IN A CHRISTMAS TO REMEMBER ON CHANNEL 5 AT 12.10PM ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2
