Exotic, alluring and fluent in Mandarian aren't epithets normally
applied to girls from New Jersey, but Mira Sorvino lives up to all three.
After bursting onto the screen – and out of her corset – in The
Buccaneers, she smartened up as Rob Morrow's wife in Quiz Show.
Hollywood hates a smart-ass, and was quick to reward her first big role
as a dumb hooker (Mighty Aphrodite). She stayed in Ditz City for Romy And
Michele's High School Reunion, and played hard and fast (under the
blonde) in The Replacement Killers. With a magna cum laude from
Harvard, she can play bridge and tunnel (Summer Of Sam) all her life.
