Mira McKinney
Mira's father, William Mark McKinney, came up with the idea of compiling New York State laws in small manageable divided books for attorneys to take into court. They are still in use to this day: "McKinney's Consolidated Laws of New York Annotated." William McKinney was a lawyer himself. When Mira was a little girl, her family lived near Theodore Roosevelt in Long Island. Mira and her brother, John, played with the Roosevelt children.
Mira Mishra
Mira Mishra is known for Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain (2018).
Mira Mitchell
Mira Nilsson Mitchell was born 12-04-2000 in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a U.S. citizen and fluent in both Swedish and English. Mira is familiar with on screen acting and has done pilots/teasers, infomercials, short-films as well as one feature film and multiple TV-series. Her first role was for a short film at the age of 11. A few years later she acted as Fanny in the feature film Micke and Veronica, featuring the actors Izabella Scorupco and David Hellenius. She starred in the TV-series My Brother the Campking/Min Bror Kollokungen, which aired for the first time on the Children's channel in Sweden 2015. Other projects include The Most Forbidden/Det Mest Förbjudna by Tova Magnusson and The Prettiest Family/Finaste Familjen by Staffan Lindberg season 1 and 2. Mira has also acted in theatre from a very young age. She is familiar with both classic plays at professional establishments such as Sagateatern and Our theatre/Vår teater, as well as self-written plays with humorous scripts and improvisation.
Mira Nair
Accomplished Film Director/Writer/Producer Mira Nair was born in India and educated at Delhi University and at Harvard. She began her film career as an actor and then turned to directing award-winning documentaries, including So Far From India and India Cabaret. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1988; it won the Camera D'Or (for best first feature) and the Prix du Publique (for most popular entry) at the Cannes Film Festival and 25 other international awards. Her next film, Mississippi Masala, an interracial love story set in the American South and Uganda, starring Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury, won three awards at the Venice Film Festival including Best Screenplay and The Audience Choice Award. Subsequent films include The Perez Family (with Marisa Tomei, Anjelica Huston, Alfred Molina and Chazz Palminteri), about an exiled Cuban family in Miami; and the sensuous Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, which she directed and co-wrote. Nair directed My Own Country based on Dr. Abraham Verghese's best-selling memoir about a young immigrant doctor dealing with the AIDS epidemic. Made in 1998, My Own Country starred Naveen Andrews, Glenne Headly, Marisa Tomei, Swoosie Kurtz, and Hal Holbrook, and was awarded the NAACP award for best fiction feature. Nair returned to the documentary form in August 1999 with The Laughing Club of India, which was awarded The Special Jury Prize in the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels 2000. In the summer of 2000, Nair shot Monsoon Wedding in 30 days, a story of a Punjabi wedding starring Naseeruddin Shah and an ensemble of Indian actors. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2001 Venice Film Festival, Monsoon Wedding also won a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and opened worldwide to tremendous critical and commercial acclaim. Nair's next feature was an HBO original film, Hysterical Blindness. Set in working class New Jersey in 1987, the film stars Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis, Gena Rowlands. Thurman and Lewis play single women looking for love in all the wrong places, while Rowlands, who plays Thurman's mother, adds to her daughter's hysteria when she finds Mr. Right in Ben Gazarra. The film received great critical acclaim and the highest ratings for HBO, garnering an audience of 15 million, a Golden Globe for Uma Thurman, and 3 Emmy Awards. Following the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Nair joined a group of 11 renowned filmmakers, each commissioned to direct a film that was 11 minutes, 9 seconds and one frame long. Nair's film is a retelling of real events in the life of the Hamdani family in Queens, whose eldest son was missing after September 11, and was then accused by the media of being a terrorist. 11.09.01 is the true story of a mother's search for her son who did not return home on that fateful day. In May 2003, Nair helmed the Focus Features production of the Thackeray classic, Vanity Fair, a provocative period tale set in post-colonial England, in which Reese Witherspoon plays the lead, Becky Sharp. The film is scheduled to release in Fall 2004. Nair's upcoming projects include Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul for HBO, and Hari Kunzru's The Impressionist, and there are also plans to take Monsoon Wedding to Broadway. Mirabai Films is establishing an annual filmmaker's laboratory, Maisha, which will be dedicated to the support of visionary screenwriters and directors in East Africa and India. The first lab, which is only for screenwriters, will be launched in August 2005 in Kampala, Uganda.
Mira Silverman
Mira Joss Silverman was born on July 19, 2007 in Atlanta, Ga., to Jeremy Silverman, an attorney, and Marci Floersheim Silverman, an occupational therapist and certified rehabilitation Pilates instructor. Mira has an older brother, Reese Alexander Silverman. Mira started musical theater classes at the age of 5 and instantly demonstrated a zest for performing. She performed in two local industrial videos and participated in a few videos for a local comedy theater. In the late summer of 2016, Mira booked her first movie role in Diary of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017). In addition to acting, Mira loves singing Broadway show-tunes, especially after training in the Broadway Artists Alliance Program. She is also a voracious reader and earns her "allowance" in books.
Mira Sorvino
Mira Katherine Sorvino was born on September 28, 1967 in Manhattan. She is the daughter of Lorraine Davis, an actress turned drama therapist, and veteran character actor Paul Sorvino. Her father's family were Italian immigrants. The young Sorvino was intelligent, an avid reader and an exceptional scholar. Her father discouraged her from becoming an actor, as he knew how the industry often chews up young stars. She attended Harvard, majoring in Chinese, graduating magna cum laude in 1989, largely on the strength of her thesis, a Hoopes Prize-winning thesis on racial conflict in China, written and researched during the year spent in Beijing, which helped her fluency in Mandarin Chinese. However, she showed interest in a career in acting from an early age, and moved to New York City to try her hand in the City's film industry, waitressing, auditioning and working at the Tribeca production company of Robert De Niro. She succeeded in getting a little television work in the early 1990s, but got her first film job in the independent gangster movie Amongst Friends (1993), on which she worked her way up the ladder behind the camera to eventually associate-produce the film, and, more importantly, was eventually cast as the female lead. The indie production was well-received, and Sorvino's performance attracted enough buzz to get her cast in two more movies, one a more prominent indie, Barcelona (1994), the other her first Hollywood feature, Quiz Show (1994), and her skillful performances brought her yet more attention. An exceptionally poised and articulate young woman, she may have seemed inappropriate to play a crazy hooker, but Woody Allen took the chance, and her magnificent performance as the female lead in his Mighty Aphrodite (1995) proved her range as a performer and earned her an Oscar (at the tender age of 29) for Best Supporting Actress. Since winning the Oscar, Sorvino has continued to take a wide range of roles, including another stretch as Marilyn Monroe in Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996), co-starring with another very intelligent and skilled young actress, Ashley Judd. Forays into action and horror, such as Mimic (1997) and The Replacement Killers (1998) show that Sorvino is not above being playful in the film roles she chooses. However, what forever cemented her role in popular culture was her performance as charmingly silly California beach girl Romy White in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), in which she and co-star Lisa Kudrow utter one hilarious absurdity after another. Mira Sorvino married Christopher Backus on June 11, 2004, and the couple have four children.
Mira Thiel
Mira Thiel was born in 1978 in Munich, Germany. Mira is a director and writer, known for Gut zu Vögeln (2016), Der letzte Bissen (2007) and Rumspringa (2022).
Mira Wanting
Mira Wanting was born on 19 April 1978 in Denmark. She was an actress, known for L'auberge espagnole (2002), Kærlighed ved første hik (1999) and Anja og Viktor - Brændende Kærlighed (2007). She died on 22 December 2012 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mira Wegert
Mira Wegert was born in 1995 in Berlin, Germany. She is an actress, known for Sky Blue (2017), So was von da (2018) and Der Lehrer (2009).
Mirabai Pease
Mirabai Pease is an actress, known for The Gulf (2019), Black Hands (2020) and Head High (2020).
