Mira Sorvino

Mira Sorvino and hubby Christopher Backus have added another little girl to their gang, welcoming daughter Lucia on Thursday in L.A. “We are thrilled beyond measure to have been blessed with our fourth precious, healthy child,” Sorvino told People , which first confirmed the news. Wasn't it only yesterday she was taking home the supporting actress Oscar for “Mighty Aphrodite”? OK, maybe not yesterday . Now 44, the “Romy & Michele's High School Reunion” star is also mother to 7-year-old daughter Mattea and sons Johnny, 5, and Holden, 2. Sorvino and Backus, 30, were married in June 2004 on Italy's isle of Capri; Mattea arrived that November.

The budget may have been low but the talent runs high - both behind and in front of the camera - in director Nancy Savoca's "Union Square," a sharp and kinetic look at the strange bonds of family. Propelled by a rangy, superbly colorful performance by Mira Sorvino, the film grabs hold of the viewer from the jump and snowballs toward a deftly moving and concise third act. Sorvino's Lucy is a mouthy Bronx tornado who descends upon her estranged, buttoned-up sister, Jenny (Tammy Blanchard, also fine)

"OK, let's see how I measure up to Marilyn Chambers," says Mira Sorvino, who kicks off her shoes and slips her slender size 8 1/2 feet into the porn queen's dainty paw prints. In town to promote her new Woody Allen film, "Mighty Aphrodite," the young actress has taken time out to pad around an unlikely Hollywood tourist stop--the Porno Walk of Fame outside the Tomcat Theatre on Santa Monica Boulevard.

Mira Sorvino and hubby Christopher Backus have added another little girl to their gang, welcoming daughter Lucia on Thursday in L.A. “We are thrilled beyond measure to have been blessed with our fourth precious, healthy child,” Sorvino told People , which first confirmed the news. Wasn't it only yesterday she was taking home the supporting actress Oscar for “Mighty Aphrodite”? OK, maybe not yesterday . Now 44, the “Romy & Michele's High School Reunion” star is also mother to 7-year-old daughter Mattea and sons Johnny, 5, and Holden, 2. Sorvino and Backus, 30, were married in June 2004 on Italy's isle of Capri; Mattea arrived that November.

Mira Sorvino thought she was prepared to be in the public eye. All her life she'd watched her father, actor Paul Sorvino ("GoodFellas," "The Firm"), successfully cope with the limelight. It was "a very normal thing" for the family to accompany him to film sets. But Sorvino, 24, felt uncomfortable when the spotlight focused on her.

Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino emerge from their trailers at the same time, and that alone puts an end to one piece of tawdry gossip: the tabloid report that had Kudrow refusing to set foot on the set of "Romy & Michele's High School Reunion" if Sorvino wasn't there first. "Whoa! Oh my God, I can't imagine," Kudrow says. She and her co-star are well aware of the published report about their supposed rivalry.

Mira Sorvino jumps at the chance to play Daisy Buchanan opposite Maggie Smith's son in A&E's version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."

So this is what happens, my dad leaves his computer on in the middle of one of those dopey columns he's always writing and then I get to do it for him, which is what happened today. He turned the computer on and went to take a nap, like he was doing something but really wasn't. My dad doesn't sleep a lot, except during the summer. I don't get it.

Helen De Michiel's "Tarantella" is awkward and too often self-conscious, but its heart is in the right place as it explores the lives of Italian American women. The film gets a big boost through the presence of its star, Mira Sorvino, who was nominated for an Oscar for playing an adorable hooker in Woody Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite." Sorvino's career is taking off so swiftly it would be hard for her now to commit to such a chancy project.

The geometry of jealousy and lust, in its classic form, is the love triangle. Tonight's "Will & Grace" involves what can best be described as a love pentagon. Forming one of its sides is guest star Mira Sorvino, who plays the alcoholic ex-girlfriend of Grace's husband, Leo, portrayed by semi-regular star Harry Connick Jr. They're joined by series mainstays Grace (recent Emmy-winner Debra Messing), Will (Eric McCormack) and Karen (Megan Mullally) in the web of desire.

Celebrities gathered en masse on the lawn of Veterans Affairs campus for "A Time for Heroes," a June 12 benefit for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. As the day's heroes, the stars, including Ashlee Simpson, Ashley Tisdale, Olivia Munn, Laila Ali, Mira Sorvino, Eva La Rue, Angus T. Jones, Melissa Rivers and Zachary Levi, mingled among guests and manned carnival-style booths. Chad Michael Murray of "One Tree Hill" supervised a rock-climbing wall, while Tatyana Ali of "The Young and the Restless" helped youngsters string beads.

Mira Sorvino has only called California home for just shy of a decade, but the actress has been a known quantity in Hollywood for far longer. She first Ever since the thespian burst onto the scene in the mid-1990s with high-profile roles such as her turn as a the shrill-voiced hooker with a shrill voice in Woody Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite." in the mid 1990s, she has been working steadily.

Forget boy meets girl, boy loses girl, etc. Knight finds holy relic, knight hides holy relic, modern archaeologist/art historian/guy on the street races Dark Forces to get holy relic --that's the way to go these days. Think "The Da Vinci Code," "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" or even "National Treasure: Book of Secrets."

In "Human Trafficking," a four-hour, two-part miniseries airing at 9 tonight and Tuesday on Lifetime, Mira Sorvino plays a New York City detective who joins U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to bust up a sex-slavery ring. Eventually, Sorvino's tough-but-tender, tender-but-tough Kate will go undercover, posing as a Russian mail-order bride.

The geometry of jealousy and lust, in its classic form, is the love triangle. Tonight's "Will & Grace" involves what can best be described as a love pentagon. Forming one of its sides is guest star Mira Sorvino, who plays the alcoholic ex-girlfriend of Grace's husband, Leo, portrayed by semi-regular star Harry Connick Jr. They're joined by series mainstays Grace (recent Emmy-winner Debra Messing), Will (Eric McCormack) and Karen (Megan Mullally) in the web of desire.

Memo to studios: Mira Sorvino is ready to do a big fat Hollywood comedy. Anyone who has forgotten how funny Sorvino can be need only see "The Triumph of Love," an 18th century screwball sex farce that opened Wednesday in which she plays a princess bent on seducing a pompous philosopher (Ben Kingsley) and his spinster sister (Fiona Shaw) in order to restore her true love (Jay Rodan) to his rightful place on the throne. Sorvino's comedic gifts have not been demonstrated much in recent years.

Forget boy meets girl, boy loses girl, etc. Knight finds holy relic, knight hides holy relic, modern archaeologist/art historian/guy on the street races Dark Forces to get holy relic --that's the way to go these days. Think "The Da Vinci Code," "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" or even "National Treasure: Book of Secrets."

Mira Sorvino jumps at the chance to play Daisy Buchanan opposite Maggie Smith's son in A&E's version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."

So this is what happens, my dad leaves his computer on in the middle of one of those dopey columns he's always writing and then I get to do it for him, which is what happened today. He turned the computer on and went to take a nap, like he was doing something but really wasn't. My dad doesn't sleep a lot, except during the summer. I don't get it.