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Mia Kirshner
Born	January 25, 1975 (age 32) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Notable roles	* Jenny Schecter in The L Word * Mandy in 24

Mia Kirshner (born January 25, 1975) is a Canadian actress who works in movies and television series.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, she is a granddaughter 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.

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, and her performance won her a Cannes Critics Choice Award. In 1995, she auditioned for the role of Jenny in the controversial Larry Clark film Kids (1995), however lost out to Chloe Sevigny.

Kirshner appeared in the first three episodes of 24 as bisexual terrorist 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 series.

Mia Kirshner studied Russian literature and 20th-century movie industry at McGill University in Montreal.

In 2006, she starred in Brian De Palma's movie The Black Dahlia, alongside Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson and Hilary Swank. Kirshner plays a young actress, Elizabeth Short, who was horrifically murdered in 1947.

She has finished working on the book I Live Here. In the book, women and children refugees from places such as Chechnya, Juárez (Mexico) and Africa will tell their life stories. It will be published in Canada in the spring of 2007. It was supported and funded by Amnesty International, which will receive proceeds from the book.

Kirshner has portrayed Jenny Schecter on the hit Showtime series, The L Word since the show began in 2004. She is currently reprising her role in season four, which began airing on Showtime on January 7.

Because she has played many bisexual and lesbian roles, her sexual orientation has been quite a subject of interest. However, when asked in interviews, she always replies ambiguously.

She also appeared in Marilyn Manson's 2001 music video for "Tainted Love".

Contents 1 Selected roles 1.1 Films 1.2 Television 2 External links

• Love and Human Remains (1993) - Benita
• Cadillac Girls (1993) - Page
• Exotica (1994) - Christina
• Murder in the First - Adult Rosetta Young
• The Crow: City of Angels (1996) - Sarah
• Anna Karenina (1997) - Kitty
• Mad City (1997) - Laurie Callahan
• Out of the Cold - Deborah Berkowitz
• Dark Summer (2000) - Dominique Denright
• Cowboys and Angels (2000) - Candice
• Not Another Teen Movie (2001) - Catherine
• According to Spencer (2001) - Melora
• Now and Forever (2002) - Angela Wilson
• New Best Friend (2002) - Alicia Campbell
• Party Monster (2003) - Natasha Gatien
• The Black Dahlia (2006) - Elizabeth Short

• Dracula: The Series (1990) - Sophie Metternich
• Are You Afraid of the Dark: Tale of the Hungry Hounds - Pam
• Wolf Lake (2001) - Ruby Wilder/Ruby Cates
• 24 (2001, 2002 and 2005) - Mandy
• The L Word (2004-2007) - Jenny Schecter
• They Come Back (2007)

• Mia Kirshner at the Internet Movie Database