Highest Rated: 95% Exotica (1994)
Lowest Rated: 5% New Best Friend (2002)
Birthday: Jan 25, 1975
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Playing women who led twisted lives and harbored dark secrets to perfection, Mia Kirshner displayed great emotional range in roles that often called on her to perform sexually charged scenes in films like "Love and Human Remains" (1993) as a young dominatrix and in "Exotica" (1994) as a teen stripper with a past. Kirshner took a bite out of television with appearances on the high-octane drama "24" (Fox, 2001-2010) as a hired killer and also played a once-vampire mother on the teen series "The Vampire Diaries" (The CW, 2009-17). But it was her role as Jenny Schecter, a self-indulgent woman, on the groundbreaking series "The L Word" (Showtime, 2004-09) that made Kirshner a star. Drawing upon her many experiences portraying dysfunctional, oversexed characters, she effectively essayed a woman who indiscriminately manipulates to get what she wants. In spite of her character's risqué scenes, Kirshner managed to convey a real sadness and fragility, proving she was undoubtedly one of the best and most intense actresses of her time.
Highest rated movies
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Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 50% | Love, Lights, Hanukkah! | Christina Rossi (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 71% | 93% | The College Admissions Scandal | Bethany (Character) | - | 2019 |
| 44% | 64% | A Swingers Weekend | Fiona (Character) | - | 2017 |
| 38% | 69% | Milton's Secret | Jane Adams (Character) | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Reluctant Witness | Erin Villenueve (Character) | - | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | The Surrogacy Trap | Christy Bennett (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Think I Do | Julia (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | The Barrens | Cynthia Vineyard (Character) | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kiss at Pine Lake | Zoe McDowell (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 56% | 24% | 388 Arletta Avenue | Amy (Character) | - | 2011 |
| 17% | 14% | 30 Days of Night: Dark Days | Lilith (Character) | - | 2010 |
| 8% | 19% | Miss Conception | Clem (Character) | $1.3K | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | They Come Back | Faith Hardy (Character) | - | 2007 |
| 32% | 27% | The Black Dahlia | Elizabeth Short (Character) | $22.5M | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | The Iris Effect | Unknown (Character) | - | 2004 |
| 5% | 38% | New Best Friend | Alicia (Character) | $28.7K | 2002 |
| 18% | 81% | Angela Wilson (Character) | - | 2001 | |
| 31% | 55% | Not Another Teen Movie | Catherine (Character) | $37.9M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Century Hotel | Dominique (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | Cowboys and Angels | Candice (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Saturn | Sarah (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dark Summer | Dominique Denright (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Out of the Cold | Deborah Berkowitz (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 26% | 66% | Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina | Kitty (Character) | $791.8K | 1997 |
| 33% | 42% | Mad City | Laurie (Character) | $10.6M | 1997 |
| 14% | 40% | The Crow: City of Angels | Sarah (Character) | $17.9M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johnny's Girl | Amy Ross (Character) | - | 1995 |
| 50% | 93% | The Grass Harp | Maude Riordan (Character) | $511.6K | 1995 |
| 54% | 79% | Murder in the First | Adult Rosetta Young (Character) | $16.1M | 1995 |
| 95% | 83% | Exotica | Christina (Character) | $5.0M | 1994 |
| 71% | 71% | Love and Human Remains | Benita (Character) | $28.3K | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cadillac Girls | Page (Character) | - | 1993 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | 79% | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Amanda Grayson (Guest Star) | 2023 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Guest | 2020 | |
| 66% | 80% | Lost Girl | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| 77% | 84% | Defiance | Kenya (Character) | 2013 |
| 86% | 85% | Graceland | Ashika Pearl (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| 86% | 72% | The Vampire Diaries | Isobel Flemming (Guest Star) | 2010-2011 |
| No Score Yet | 82% | CSI: New York | Deborah Carter (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| 57% | 75% | The L Word | Jenny Schecter (Character) | 2004-2009 |
| 87% | 87% | 24 | Mandy (Guest Star) | 2001 2005-2006 |
| 20% | No Score Yet | Wolf Lake | Unknown (Character) | 2001-2002 |
| 67% | No Score Yet | D.C. | Sarah Logan (Character) | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Secret Identity | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Danger Bay | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1990 |
