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...photography class, wrote a thesis, and lived in China for eight months. None of this would have happened if I had just gone straight to Hollywood. I’m so happy I didn’t.” By delaying her acting career for a few years, Mira was able to take full advantage of the college experience—and when she graduated, she was ready to tackle her dreams. “When I got out, I did end up missing acting, and I had to go back...
...rest, as they say, is history. In 1995, Mira landed an Academy Award for her breakout role in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite. From there, she went on to amass a genre-defying collection of credits, including dramatic turns in Summer of Sam and At First Sight, rough-and-tumble action roles in Mimic and The Replacement Killers and comedic romps like Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion...
...latest film, Mira mixes romantic comedy with a dash of period drama in director Clare Peploe’s Triumph of Love, a film adaptation of an 18th-century story by French playwright Pierre Marivaux. As a princess struggling to win the heart of a prince (Jay Rodan) while restoring the rule of her kingdom to its rightful heir, Mira dons a cunning and passionate persona that manages to crack the stoic visages of the prince’s rationalist guardian (Ben Kingsley) and his withdrawn sister (Fiona Shaw). “I offer them the idea of love...
Despite the archaic costumes and classical setting, the story itself is surprisingly modern, a fact that Mira attributes to the strength of Marivaux’s writing. “Great dramatic literature is timeless,” she says. “You can still perform the Greeks, you can still perform Shakespeare. And Marivaux is on a very high level in France. He’s not quite as well known in America, but in Europe, everybody knows this play. The female character in it is so modern. She’s a queen who has ultimate power...
...You’re always at the mercy of what material is available at any given moment—what’s being offered to you, what you’re in the running for, what people are making at that moment in time,” explains Mira. “But now, I’m really just trying to go with my heart and my mind. If I love the project and I really connect with it, I have to do it. I’m trying to be more of a pure artist these days...