Oscar winner Mira Sorvino will make a rare visit to television comedy when she co-stars on an episode of NBC’s “Will & Grace” on Oct. 2.
She’ll play Diane, a fast-talking Vogue fashion editor who is one of Leo’s ex-girlfriends. Grace isn’t annoyed by her past with Leo, but she’s really shaken up by Diane’s ties to Will.
The Harvard-educated Sorvino got her start on the CBS soap “The Guiding Light” and on the short-lived serial “Swans Crossing.” Her film career started with small, but vivid roles in Whit Stillman’s “Barcelona” and Robert Redford’s “Quiz Show,” leading up to her Academy Award-winning performance as a Minnie Mouse-voiced hooker in Woody Allen’s “Mighty Aphrodite.”
Sorvino has had some difficulty parlaying that Oscar into greater big-screen success, as subsequent efforts included “Mimic,” “The Replacement Killers” and “At First Sight.”
Sorvino’s other television credits include an Emmy-nominated performance in the HBO movie “Norma Jean & Marilyn” and a co-starring role in the 2001 A&E adaptation of “The Great Gatsby.”
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