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Mia Kirshner Net Worth And Biography
Here is a detailed account of Mia Kirshner’s (a Canadian actress, writer, and social activist) net worth, biography, and career.
Mia Kirshner is a Canadian actress, writer, and social activist. She is most recognised for her role 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). Also, 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). Below is a detailed account of Mia Kirshner’s net worth, biography, and career.
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Bio-Data
| Name | Mia Kirshner |
| Date of Birth | January 25, 1975 |
| Gender | Female |
| Marital Status | Single |
| Professions | Actress, Writer, and Social Activist |
| Mia Kirshner’s Net Worth | $2 Million |
| Nationality | Canadian |
Biography
Mia Kirshner was born on January 25, 1975 in Toronto, Ontario. She is the daughter of Etti (Henrietta) who was a teacher and Sheldon Kirshner who was a journalist and wrote for The Canadian Jewish News. Mia Kirshner is a grandchild of Holocaust survivors; her father was born in the Bad Reichenhall displaced people camp in Germany in 1946. And, he had met Mia Kirshner’s mother, a Jewish refugee from Bulgaria, after they fled to Israel. Her paternal grandparents are Polish Jews.
Mia Kirshner was raised in a middle-class family and graduated from Jarvis Collegiate Institute after attending Forest Hill Collegiate Institute. She studied Russian literature and the 20th-century film industry at McGill University in Montreal. She participated in the I Live Here initiative with her younger sister Lauren Kirshner who is a writer.
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Early Career
Mia Kirshner started her career in 1989 in Loving the Alien, a second-season episode of War of the Worlds as both Jo and her doppelgänger. She made her film debut when she was 18 in Love and Human Remains where she convinced her father to sign a nudity waiver to play a dominatrix. Then she starred in Atom Egoyan’s Exotica the year after that. In 1996, she appeared in The Crow: City of Angels and she also played Kitty Scherbatsky in the 1997 version of Anna Karenina.
Mia Kirshner appeared in the first three episodes of 24 as the assassin Mandy in 2001. The role which she repeated for the second season’s finale and in the latter half of the show’s fourth season. In the same year, she played Catherine Wyler in the teen movie, Not Another. The character was partially based on Mackenzie Siler from She’s All That, who was portrayed by Anna Paquin, and is mostly a parody of Kathryn Merteuil from Cruel Intentions, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar. She also made a cameo appearance as her character, Catherine Wyler in Marilyn Manson’s music video for Tainted Love featured on the movie’s soundtrack.
Later Career
In 2004, Mia Kirshner was cast as Jenny Schecter who is a main character in The L Word series, and she remained with the show through 2009 for all six seasons. Two years later, she starred in The Black Dahlia where she played Elizabeth Short, a young aspiring actress. Although the film was critically attacked, many reviews applauded her performance. In 2010, Mia Kirshner took a guest role, co-starring as Isobel Flemming in The Vampire Diaries.
She voiced the title character in Bear 71, a National Film Board of Canada web documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011. On the 20th of April 2012, it was announced that Mia Krisher would join the Defiance series. It was mentioned on the Showcase blog that Mia Kirshner would be one of the several guest stars in season four of the TV series, Lost Girl. In 2018, she began a recurring role on Star Trek: Discovery where she played Amanda Grayson. On the 5th of September 2019, Entertainment Tonights’s news outlet, ET Online reported that Mia Kirshner would play a character in The College Admissions Scandal inspired by real life Hollywood stars Lori Loughlin’s and Felicity Huffman’s involvement in a massive college admissions bribery scam.
In September 2020, Mia Kirshner co-starred with Ben Savage in Love, Lights, Hanukkah! which premiered on the 12th of December in the same year. Through a DNA test, Mia Kirshner’s character, Christina, a restaurant owner, discovers she is of Jewish ancestry.
Mia Kirshner’s Net Worth
Mia Kirshner’s net worth is curently estimated at $2 million.
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Philanthropy
After seven years of production, Mia Kirshner published the book I Live Here in October 2018. She co-produced the book with Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons along with James Mackinnon. Famous comic and graphic artists including Phoebe Gloeckner and Joe Sacco contributed original work to the book. And, Random House/Pantheon published it in the US. Amnesty International provided logistical help for it and will earn money from the sale of the book. Also, the Center for International Studies at MIT invited Mia Kirshner to teach a 4-week course on I Live Here in January 2019 following the publication of the book.
In Popular Culture
On the 2002 Maxim Hot 100 Women list, Mia Kirshner came in at #43. For Not Another Teen Movie, she and Beverly Polcyn were nominated for Best Kiss at the 2002 MTV Movie Awards. Then in 2011, it was announced that Mia Kirshner would represent the jewellery line by Monica Rich Kosann.
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Personal Life
Sam Shepard, an actor and playwright, and Mia Kirshner were romantically involved between 2014 and 2015. Mia Kirshner posted that she had beaten cancer in a September 2022 Instagram post that stated, “La Mer. Cancer free.”