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Mia Kirshner (born January 25, 1975) is a Canadian actress, writer and social activist. She portrays Jenny Schecter on Showtime's The L Word. Kirshner was born in Toronto, Ontario, the daughter of Etti (Henrietta), a teacher, and Sheldon Kirshner, a journalist who wrote for The Canadian Jewish...
In 1995, Kirshner had supporting roles in films such as the Southern gothic coming-of-age tale, "The Grass Harp," starring Sissy Spacek and Walter Matthau, as well as in the suspense thriller "Murder in the First" as Kevin Bacon's younger sister. She landed a lead role opposite Vincent Perez in "The Crow: City of Angels" (1996), playing a ...
Dec 17, 2019 · And Mia Kirshner, the actress who rode the roller coaster of Jenny's life for six seasons beginning in 2004, has emphatically rejected the ending the reboot The L Word: Generation Q afforded the ...
Apr 19, 2021 · Mia Kirshner is best known for her L Word role as narcissistic navel-gazer Jenny Schecter. But in her down time from the Showtime hit series, this longtime supporter of human rights organizations like Amnesty International, and has traveled with Artists for Amnesty and, over a five-year period, Kirshner actually witnessed what the lives of refugees were like firsthand.
Jun 12, 2022 · Mia Kirshner is the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. Sheldon Kirshner was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany in 1946. Sheldon would meet Henrietta in Israel. Mia Kirshner has a younger sister named Lauren, a writer, and is also involved with one of Mia’s activist causes. Mia and Lauren grew up with a middle-class upbringing.
Jul 14, 2023 · First introduced in Star Trek: Discovery, Mia Kirshner plays the newest iteration of Spock's human mother, Amanda Grayson, in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. In the Strange New Worlds season 2 episode, "Charades," Amanda visits the USS Enterprise to help Spock (Ethan Peck) prepare for the Vulcan ceremonial engagement dinner with his fiancée, T'Pring (Gia Sandhu), and her parents.
Dec 17, 2019 · — Mia Kirshner (@msmiakirshner) December 16, 2019. Would you like to know what really happened to Jenny? — Mia Kirshner (@msmiakirshner) December 16, 2019. Mia wrote: “Nope. Jenny is not dead. That’s not the story that needs to be told about a survivor of sexual violence. It’s not a story that can be wrapped up and tied up with a bow.
