Van wie was Mira Sorvino?

Mira Sorvino (Tenafly (New Jersey), 28 september 1967) is een Amerikaans actrice van Italiaanse afkomst. Zij won voor haar bijrol in Mighty Aphrodite in 1996 onder meer een Academy Award en een Golden Globe.

Sorvino is de dochter van acteur Paul Sorvino, die onder andere speelde in Goodfellas en in de televisieserie Law & Order. Ze is afgestudeerd aan Harvard en heeft een graad in Oost-Azië-studies. Ze bracht een jaar in China door en spreekt vloeiend Mandarijns Chinees. Nadat Sorvino was afgestudeerd, probeerde ze als actrice aan het werk te komen. Een rol die haar hierbij vooruit hielp was die van prostituee Linda in Woody Allens film Mighty Aphrodite. Ze won een Oscar voor deze rol.

Sorvino heeft een zus Amanda en een broer Michael. Ze trouwde in 2004 met de Amerikaanse acteur Christopher Backus. Samen hebben ze vier kinderen: dochter Mattea Angel (3 november 2004), zoons Johnny (29 mei 2006) en Holden (22 juni 2009) en dochter Lucia (2012).

Quentin Jerome Tarantino ( TARR-ən-TEE-noh; born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, and author. His films are characterized by graphic violence, extended dialogue often featuring much profanity, and references to popular culture. His work has earned a cult following alongside critical and commercial success; he has been named by some as the most influential director of his generation and has received numerous awards and nominations, including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. His films have grossed more than $1.9 billion worldwide.

Tarantino began his career with the independent crime film Reservoir Dogs (1992). His second film, the crime comedy-drama Pulp Fiction (1994), was a major success and won numerous awards, including the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He next wrote and starred in the action horror film From Dusk till Dawn (1996). His third film as director, Jackie Brown (1997), paid homage to blaxploitation films.

Tarantino wrote and directed the martial arts films Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), with both volumes combined regarded as a single film. He then made the exploitation-slasher film Death Proof (2007), which was part of a double feature with From Dusk till Dawn director Robert Rodriguez, released under the collective title Grindhouse. His next film, Inglourious Basterds (2009), followed an alternate account of World War II. He followed this with Django Unchained (2012), a slave revenge Spaghetti Western which won him his second Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His eighth film, The Hateful Eight (2015), was a revisionist Western thriller and opened to audiences with a roadshow release.

Tarantino's ninth and most recent film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), was a comedy-drama set in the late 1960s about the transition of Old Hollywood to New Hollywood; his debut novel, a novelization of the film, was published in 2021. He has tentative plans for his tenth film to be his last before retiring from filmmaking.