Actress and singer Miriam Shor was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and at sixth months old moved to Venice, Italy where her academic father was teaching and studying. It was there her love of theatre started when she saw her first opera at the age of two. She began doing plays in high school, and went on to be among the first people to receive a BFA from the theatre program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor as well as a BA in English. After graduation she moved to New York City to pursue a career in the theatre.
In the early 1990s Shor landed a variety of roles in many off-Broadway productions, the most successful of which was the rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell, where she played drag queen Yitzhak. In 2001 she starred in the musical's critically successful film adaptation and in 2002 received an Outfest Screen Idol Award for her Yitzhak portrayal. She also lent her voice to the film's GRAMMY®-nominated soundtrack. Having gone back to her theatre roots many times, Shor has worked with a range of renowned artists such as Stephen Sondheim, Terrence McNally and Lanford Wilson as well as many young, up and coming writers.
In addition to Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shor has appeared in more than a dozen films throughout her career including Mary Stuart Masterson's drama Cake Eaters and the comedy Bedazzled with Brendan Fraser (THE MUMMY) and Elizabeth Hurley (THE ROYALS). She appears in the upcoming film Puerto Ricans in Paris where she plays an undercover cop in the NYPD Counterfeit Goods Recovery Department opposite Luis Guzman (Boogie Nights) and Edgar Garcia (The Black Cat). The independent comedy feature is written and directed by HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA'S Ian Edelman.
On television, Shor has starred in a range of series that included playing Cricket Caruth-Reilly, a strong-willed business woman with an apparently perfect marriage, on ABC's 2012 comedy series GCB alongside Leslie Bibb (Iron Man), Kristin Chenoweth, Jennifer Aspen (RODNEY), Marisol Nichols (Felon) and Annie Potts (Designing Women). Shor's other small screen credits include THEN CAME YOU, INSIDE SCHWARTZ, BIG DAY and SWINGTOWN. She also appeared on the first and third season of the FX drama DAMAGES, the HBO miniseries MILDRED PIERCE, and as the dogged reporter Mandy Post in the fourth and fifth season of the THE GOOD WIFE.
Miriam speaks fluent Italian, having grown up splitting her time between Detroit, Michigan and first Venice, then Torino, Italy. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Manhattan. She also loves to travel, but having established her status as a true New Yorker, hates driving.
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