Mia Kirshner
Also Known As: Миа Киршнер, ミア・カーシュナー, میا کرشنر
Biography: Mia Kirshner (born January 25, 1975) is a Canadian actress, writer and social activist. She is known for television roles as Mandy in 24 (2001–2005), as Jenny Schecter in The L Word (2004–2009), as Amanda Grayson in Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2019), and as Isobel Flemming in The Vampire Diaries (2010-2011). Her film credits include Love and Human Remains (1993), Exotica (1994), The Crow: City of Angels (1996), Mad City (1997), Not Another Teen Movie (2001) and The Black Dahlia (2006). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mia Kirshner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: January 25, 1975
Age: 50 years old
Gender: Female
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Party Monster
Overview: The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe from nowhere special. Under the watchful eye of veteran club kid James St. James, Alig quickly rose to the top... and there was no place to go but down.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-05
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The Crow: City of Angels
Overview: A murder victim is brought back to life by a mysterious crow. With the help of a beautiful woman, he exacts revenge on his killers – only to realize his enemy has discovered the one weakness that can destroy him forever.
Genres: Action Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-29
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Exotica
Overview: In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-29
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Not Another Teen Movie
Overview: On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-07
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Murder in the First
Overview: A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-20
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Mad City
Overview: A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-07
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The Black Dahlia
Overview: In 1940s Los Angeles, two former boxers-turned-cops must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer of an aspiring young actress.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-15
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Miss Conception
Overview: Georgina is an ambitious young London professional who learns she has only one month left in which to conceive a child. After exhausting all possibilities with her baby-phobic boyfriend, Georgina turns to her wildly optimistic friend Clem, with whom she sets out to identify and "land" the perfect father for her child.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-06
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30 Days of Night: Dark Days
Overview: After surviving the incidents in Barrow, Alaska, Stella Olemaun relocates to Los Angeles, where she intentionally attracts the attention of the local vampire population in order to avenge the death of her husband, Eben.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-04
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New Best Friend
Overview: Alicia is a poor girl starting college. Hadley, Julianne and Sydney are three well-off girls in a row house. Classes begin and Alicia is paired with Hadley to work on a sociology class project. At first rejected, Alicia is finally accepted into Hadley's clique where she is introduced to a world of privilege and dangerous thrills. But her attempts to become one of them ultimately land her in the hospital.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-12
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Innocents
Overview: A traveling cellist gets involved with two disturbed sisters on their way to Seattle to tell their mom that their dad has just passed away. On the way, the two kill a judge and a few others unknown to the cellist. Eventually he gets pinned for the crimes and is forced to defend himself.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-10
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Love & Human Remains
Overview: In a Canadian metropolis, failed actor David shares a place with the bookish Candy, whom he dated before coming out as gay. While David, who now waits tables, pursues an aimless romance with a younger coworker, Candy dabbles in both same-sex and heterosexual affairs. As David and Candy's odd assortment of friends — including a telepathic sex worker and an ill-tempered yuppie — pass in and out of their beds, a serial murder stalks the city's women.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-22
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Century Hotel
Overview: David Weaver makes his feature debut with this omnibus film in which each tale is told during different points during the 20th century, but in the same hotel room -- room 720. The film opens during the swinging '20s when a beautiful young woman, married against her will to a brutish thug of a man, endures a tension-fraught honeymoon. During the Depression segment, a mail-order bride from China meets her husband for the first time. Following the end of WWII, a soldier returns home to meet his girlfriend and his best friend. During the paranoia of the 1950s, a professor searches for his wife. During the 1980s, a lawyer has too much sex and debt, and during the dawn of the millennium, a woman comes to a newly refurbished room 720 to meet her Internet lover. Such acclaimed Canadian actors as Tom McCamus, Sandrine Holt, and Colm Feore star in this film, which was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-09
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The Iris Effect
Overview: In Los Angeles, Dr. Sarah Hathaway hired private eyes trying to find her missing son, the painter Thomas, who ran away from their home ten years ago after a quarrel with her. She finds a clue in a catalog of a panting exhibition in San Petersburg and she decides to travel alone to Russia to search for Thomas. Once there, she is not able to locate him and she has a nervous breakdown, but with the support of Dr. Ivan and helped by a street boy, she discloses what happened with her son.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-25
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According to Spencer
Overview: A mail clerk at an advertising firm sets out to climb the corporate ladder and win the woman of his dreams.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-02
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Anna Karenina
Overview: Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an affair with Count Vronsky, a dashing cavalry officer in 19th-century St. Petersburg.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-04
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388 Arletta Avenue
Overview: A young couple find themselves in an unnerving situation with a mysterious stalker.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-11
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Cowboys and Angels
Overview: A lawyer in his 30s named Danny still dreams about becoming a cowboy when his fiancée leaves him on the eve of their wedding ceremony. Fortunately, for him, not one, but two contrasting girls appear on his life to take her place: the bubbly Jo Jo and the more traditional Candice. But who will win out?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-15
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They Come Back
Overview: A psychologist's 10-year-old patient claims she's being menaced by unseen forces after her parents were killed in a car accident. What's more bizarre? The psychologist has seen these symptoms before, in a former patient who mysteriously disappeared. And the shrink worries that if she can't unravel the workings of the 10-year-old's psyche (and soon!), this little girl is destined for the same unknown fate.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-03
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Speed of Life
Overview: Drew (Scott Caan) must care for his father, a former professor who can now barely communicate due to Alzheimer. Depressed and struggling to make ends meet, an old buddy tries to get him to become a pusher. He gets further drawn in by a new and exciting girlfriend, Sarah (Mia Kirshner), who uses drugs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-17
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Out of the Cold
Overview: An American entertainer and an Estonian woman are torn apart by hate and prejudice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-28
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Kiss at Pine Lake
Overview: A boy and a girl fall in love during summer camp and promise to stay in touch, but they don't. Fifteen years later they meet again in the same camp under very different circumstances. What will happen to the camp and will they try again?
Genres: TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-19
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The Barrens
Overview: A man takes his family on a camping trip and becomes convinced they are being stalked by the legendary monster of the New Jersey Pine Barrens: the Jersey Devil.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-28
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The Surrogacy Trap
Overview: After losing hope of conceiving a child on their own, Christy and Mitch turn to surrogacy in hopes of creating the perfect family. However, their confidence is quickly shaken when they discover that the young woman might not be as perfect as they first thought...
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-14
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I Think I Do
Overview: I Think I Do is a romantic-relationship comedy about commitment, cold feet, the endurance of true love, the importance of family ties and the hard lesson learned that, try as we may, life simply does not go as planned.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-11
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Now & Forever
Overview: Against a backdrop of clashing cultures, John Myron and Angela Wilson find each other and over the years form a powerful bond. One tragic night, John rescues Angela from a wicked act of betrayal. Faced with its aftermath, Angela flees town, unaware that she has put into motion a dramatic and intense string of events that will forever change the course of their lives. Harboring a secret, John guides Angela to a shocking realization that will uncover the past. A dramatic contemporary love story combining elements of spirituality, heart and integrity.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-15
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Johnny's Girl
Overview: A father gives his daughter an unorthodox upbringing on the fringes of the Alaskan underworld in the 1960's and 70's.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-27
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Never Happened
Overview: A pair of business travellers have an affair and decide it might be easiest to just forget about it.
Genres: Romance Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-10
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Reluctant Witness
Overview: After giving up her mafia husband to the police, and starting a new life in witness protection, Erin thinks she's rid of Jimmy forever. However, a mysterious stranger has her worrying Jimmy is back.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-02
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Cadillac Girls
Overview: A woman and her delinquent rebellious teen daughter return to their small hometown after the death of the woman's distant father. Old wounds reopen quickly but they soon find a reason to stay. Will they find peace or more scars?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-28
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Milton's Secret
Overview: 11 year-old Milton Adams is growing up in an uncertain world. With his parents constantly stressing about their careers and finances, and the neighborhood bully tormenting him, Milton feels his whole world is in crisis. But when his Grandpa Howard comes to visit, he discovers anxiety about the past and worrying about the future only make things worse and prevent him from finding true happiness moment to moment.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-30
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A Swingers Weekend
Overview: Seemingly perfect couple Lisa and Dan plan a steamy swingers weekend, but things go south when a third couple drops in unexpectedly.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-18
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The Grass Harp
Overview: Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. Becoming an orphan in 1935, Collin moves to his dad's cousins Verena and Dolly. Verena is a rich, bossy businesswoman. Dolly, Collin and the maid revolt, moving to a tree house.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-11
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Crisis
Overview: Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a drug company with deep government influence bringing a new "non-addictive" painkiller to market.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-26
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The College Admissions Scandal
Overview: Two wealthy mothers, Caroline, a sought after interior designer and Bethany, an owner of a successful financial services firm, who share an obsession with getting their teenagers into the best possible college.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-12
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Love, Lights, Hanukkah!
Overview: As Christina prepares her restaurant for its busiest time of year, she gets back a DNA test revealing that she’s Jewish. The discovery leads her to a new family and an unlikely romance over eight nights.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-12
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