Amanda Sorvino is an actress and also the sister of Mira Sorvino. Amanda Sorvino’s sister, Mira is an American actress. She won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite.
Amanda Sorvino: Bio Summary
| Full Name | Amanda Sorvino |
| famous as | Actress and sister of Mira Sorvino |
| Age | 55 years old as of 2022 |
| Date of Birth | September 28, 1967 |
| Place of Birth | United States of America |
| Zodiac sign | Libra |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian |
| Siblings | Michael Sorvino, Mira Sorvino |
Amanda Sorvino was born in 1971 in the United States of America to her parents, Paul Sorvino and Lorraine Davis. As of 2022, she is 55 years old. Apart from Mira, Amanda has another sibling, his name is Michael Sorvino.
Amanda Sorvino is a writer and actress, known for The Trouble with Cali (2012), Midlife (2015), and The Wind in the Reeds (2017).
Amanda’s father, Paul Sorvino is an American actor, opera singer, businessman, writer, and sculptor. He often portrays authority figures on both sides of the law and is known for his roles as Paulie Cicero in the 1990 gangster film Goodfellas, and NYPD Sergeant Phil Cerreta on the TV series Law & Order.
Her brother, Michael Sorvino is also an American actor and producer. He is best known as the voice of Tommy Angelo, the protagonist in Mafia. His other acting roles include parts in Summer of Sam, The Trouble with Cali, and Once Upon a Time in Queens.
Amanda runs an animal rescue mission. she went undercover and investigated America’s last known horse slaughterhouse, “Bravo Packing” in 2008 and rescued 10 horses from the plant.
Amanda Sorvino and her father, Paul lobbied with the Americans Against Horse Slaughter in Washington, D.C., for Congress and the Senate to pass the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (S311/HR503). The Sorvinos run a private horse rescue in Gilbert, Pennsylvania.
On January 17, 2007, news reports detailed that Amanda Sorvino’s father Paul displayed a gun in front of Daniel Snee, an ex-boyfriend of his daughter Amanda after the man pounded on her hotel room door and made threats. Amanda testified that Snee threatened to kill her at a hotel on January 3 in Stowe, Vermont.
She said she locked herself in the bathroom and called both the police and her father. Her 67-year-old father showed up before police, she testified. When police arrived, the young man was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, she said. As a deputy sheriff in Pennsylvania, Sorvino was legally authorized to carry a gun in different states. He did not point the gun at Snee or threaten him.
In January 2018, Amanda Sorvino’s father, Paul Sorvino learned that Harvey Weinstein allegedly sexually harassed his daughter, Mira, and then blacklisted her within the film industry after she rejected Weinstein’s sexual demands.
In response, Paul Sorvino told TMZ, “He’s going to go to jail. Oh yeah. That son of a b**ch. Good for him if he goes, because if not, he has to meet me. And I will kill the motherfucker. Real simple. If I had known it, he would not be walking. He’d be in a wheelchair. This pig will get his comeuppance. The law will get him. He’s going to go to jail and die in jail.”
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