Actress Mira Sorvino

Mira Sorvino  was one of the hottest young actresses in the nineties.

Her breakthrough role was in Woody Allen's 1995 comedy Mighty Aphrodite, as Linda, a happy-go-lucky prostitute that Woody's character falls in love with.  Really.

The daughter of actor Paul Sorvino, Mira Sorvino seemed to be everywhere in the years following her star-making performance in Mighty Aphrodite.  She appeared in the comedy Romy and Michele's High School Reunion and Guillermo del Toro's horror movie Mimic, about . .  .cockroaches. :-O  Both movies came out in 1997. 

Subsequent roles included that of an aspiring actress in the romantic drama/mystery Lulu On the Bridge from in 1998 and Bronx girl Dionna in Summer of Sam, a 1999 drama about the summer of 1977 and the hunt for killer David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz.  It was something of a novelty in that it was directed by Spike Lee and had a mostly white cast. Ms. Sorvino even played Marilyn Monroe in Norma Jean & Marilyn, an HBO television movie that gained her Golden Globe and Emmy nominations.

Though she continued to work steadily in the two thousand zeroes - including a Mexican movie, 2002's Santa Semana (Holy Week), as a police detective - Mira Sorvino's movie roles were of a lesser profile than her late-1990s performances.  She came out as a recipient of Harvey Weinstein's sexual advances in 2017, and she thought that her refusal to give in to him hurt her career. Few disagreed.

More recently, Mira Sorvino has done a few Hallmark TV movies and played a few recurring parts in basic-cable TV shows, but she's hardly done with film.  She's set to star in Stuber, an action/comedy set for releases in the spring of 2019.  From breakout . . . to comeback (let's hope).