Oscar win for 'Mighty Aphrodite' (1995 )
September 28, 1967 ((Tenafly, New Jersey, USA))
Background:
“There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the East Coast
educated person and wants to be a pin-up girl in garages across
America...there’s a side that wants to wear the pink angora bikini!” Mira
Sorvino
Academy Award-winning actress Mira Sorvino was shot to stardom with her
critical-acclaimed, scene-stealing turn as bleached-blonde, blasphemous,
squeaky-voiced prostitute Linda in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite (1995), for
which she was garnered with many praises and netted numerous Awards, including
an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. The character actor has since played
roles in the box office films the comedy Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion
(1997, earned a MTV Movie no ..[Full version] | |