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I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

Mira Sorvino

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Mira Sorvino
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 28
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Tenafly
New Jersey
Mira Katherine Sorvino
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Beijing
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