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Mia Kirshner

Biography

Mia Kirshner is a Canadian actress who started out on television in 1989 and made her film debut at 18 in Denys Arcand's Love and Human Remains (1993). She starred in Atom Egoyan's Exotica as an exotic dancer, and her film work later included The Crow: City of Angels (1996), Mad City (1997) and Not Another Teen Movie (2001), in which she played Catherine Wyler. On television she is known as the assassin Mandy in 24, as the writer Jenny Schecter in The L Word across all six seasons, as Amanda Grayson in Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and as Isobel Flemming in The Vampire Diaries. Her portrayal of Elizabeth Short in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia (2006) drew praise even as the film was critically panned. Later credits include 30 Days of Night: Dark Days (2010) and Love, Lights, Hanukkah! (2020).

51years old

Turns 52 on January 25in 119 days

  • Born Toronto
  • Star sign: AquariusThe sign runs January 20 to February 18

Movie Career

Films
18
Career span
28 years1993 to 2021

Genres

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  1. First role

    Kirshner began her career in 1989 in the War of the Worlds episode "Loving the Alien", playing both Jo, a young resistance fighter captured and duplicated by the aliens, and her doppelganger.

  2. Beyond film

    In 2011, Kirshner provided the voice of the title character in Bear 71, a web documentary from the National Film Board of Canada. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Mia Kirshner movies on Netflix

Best known for

The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.

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  1. Not Another Teen Movie2001 Comedyas Catherine Wyler

    IMDb rating 5.8129K votes

  2. The Black Dahlia2006 Crime, Drama, Mysteryas Elizabeth Short

    IMDb rating 5.680K votes

  3. The Crow: City of Angels1996as Sarah

    IMDb rating 4.624K votes

  4. Mad City1997as Laurie

    IMDb rating 6.322K votes

  5. 30 Days of Night: Dark Days2010as Lilith

    IMDb rating 4.316K votes

  6. The Barrens2012as Cynthia Vineyard

    IMDb rating 4.65.1K votes

  7. New Best Friend2002as Alicia Campbell

    IMDb rating 5.33.6K votes

  8. Murder in the First1995as Adult Rosetta Young

    IMDb rating 7.333K votes

Worked with

Mia Kirshner shares two films with Gary Oldman, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.

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Films together

Box office

What Mia Kirshner's films earned in cinemas worldwide.

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Combined worldwide box office

$184 million

8 of the 18 films have a worldwide figure, in dollars of the day.

Of the 18 films: 8 worldwide figure; 4 us gross only; 3 never in cinemas; 3 figure not found.

  • 8Worldwide figure
  • 4US gross only
  • 3Never in cinemas
  • 3Figure not found

Highest grossing

The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.

  1. 1
    Not Another Teen Movie2001as Catherine Wyler
    $66M36.2% of the total
  2. 2
    The Black Dahlia2006as Elizabeth Short
    $49M26.8% of the total
  3. 3
    Murder in the First1995as Adult Rosetta Young
    $30M16.0% of the total
  4. 4
    $25M13.8% of the total
  5. 5
    Mad City1997as Laurie
    $11M5.7% of the total
  6. 6
    Crisis2021as Susan
    $1.1M0.6% of the total
  7. 7
    Anna Karenina1997as Kitty
    $859K0.5% of the total
  8. 8
    Party Monster2003as Natasha
    $743K0.4% of the total