Mia Dillon

Mia Dillon is an American actress born in Colorado Springs who grew up in the Philadelphia area and trained at Penn State. While supporting herself with jobs including waitressing and temping, she traveled into New York for low-paying showcases and worked as an understudy for The Shortchanged Review, a 1976 Off-Broadway production at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. Her Broadway debut came in 1977 when she understudied the Nurse and Jill Mason in Equus by Peter Shaffer. She earned a 1980 Drama Desk nomination as Outstanding Featured Actress for Once a Catholic and a 1982 Tony Award nomination for Crimes of the Heart. Her other stage work includes Agnes of God, Hay Fever, Three Sisters, and Our Town. On screen she has appeared in The Money Pit (1986), A Shock to the System (1990), and Duane Hopwood (2005); on television she was featured in Mary and Rhoda, the Disney Channel movie Lots of Luck, and three Law & Order series.