19 Facts About Mia Kirshner

Mia Kirshner was born on January 25,1975 and is a Canadian actress, writer, and social activist.

Mia Kirshner is known for television roles as Mandy in 24, as Jenny Schecter in The L Word, as Amanda Grayson in Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and as Isobel Flemming in The Vampire Diaries.

Mia Kirshner is a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors; her father was born in the displaced persons camp at Bad Reichenhall in Germany in 1946; and met Mia Kirshner's mother, a Bulgarian Jewish refugee, after they immigrated to Israel.

Mia Kirshner had a middle class upbringing, and attended Forest Hill Collegiate Institute but later graduated from Jarvis Collegiate Institute.

Mia Kirshner studied Russian literature and the 20th-century movie industry at McGill University in Montreal.

Mia Kirshner started her career in 1989 in "Loving the Alien", a second-season episode of War of the Worlds, as both Jo, a young resistance fighter who is captured and duplicated by the enemy aliens, and her doppelganger.

Mia Kirshner made her film debut in 1993 at the age of 18 in Denys Arcand's Love and Human Remains.

Mia Kirshner convinced her father to sign a "nudity waiver" to play a dominatrix.

Mia Kirshner played Kitty Scherbatsky in the 1997 version of Anna Karenina.

Mia Kirshner appeared in the first three episodes of 24 as the assassin Mandy in 2001.

Also in 2001, Mia Kirshner played Catherine Wyler, "The Cruelest Girl in School", in Not Another Teen Movie.

In 2004, Mia Kirshner was cast as writer Jenny Schecter, a main character in the drama series The L Word.

Mia Kirshner remained with the show through 2009, for all six seasons.

On October 9,2013, it was mentioned on the Showcase blog that Mia Kirshner would be one of several guest stars in season four of the television series Lost Girl.

Mia Kirshner later reprised the role in an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Mia Kirshner plays a restaurant owner named Christina, who learns of her Jewish ancestry through a DNA test.

In October 2008, after seven years in production, Mia Kirshner published the book I Live Here, which she co-produced with ex-Adbusters staffers Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons, as well as writer James MacKinnon.

In 2011 it was announced that Mia Kirshner would be the face of Monica Rich Kosann's jewelry collection.

Between 2014 and 2015, Mia Kirshner was in a relationship with actor and playwright Sam Shepard.