the main problem with her career is she got famous at such an old age. she was kind of old when mighty aphrodite came out. i remember thinking she looks kind of old in this and that was the first time i had ever seen her, in 1995.
99% of the time when an actress starts out she looks very young, no aging on her face but with her she looked kind of old like 30 years old in ma so this is why her career didn't last that long bc by just 10 years later she looked very old.
lukejbarnett

What happened to her career? Harvey Weinstein. She was blacklisted after turning him down.

http://www.today.com/id/4285114/ns/today-today_entertainment/t/curse-supporting-class/#.UdqNhjuOQRg
For Sorvino and Basinger, the problem seems to be that they simply chose to star in bad films. After success in Mighty Aphrodite, Sorvino moved on to the dumb horror flick Mimic, dumb action flick The Replacement Killers, dumb comedy Romy & Michelles High School Reunion, dumb sex film Tales of Erotica, and a prominent role in the very dumb box-office bomb Gods & Generals, the worst film of 2003. On the positive side2000 are stints in the critically divisive Summer of Sam and The Grey Zone.
Basinger made mistake after mistake after L.A. Confidential that allowed her post-Oscar hotness cool to ice. First, she waited three years to make another movie. When she did, it was I Dreamed of Africa, which could have been retitled I Dream Of Getting Out Of This Theater. The boring supernatural thriller Bless the Child followed, a pathetic next try at a comeback that made fellow supporting-actress winner Whoopi Goldbergs center-square spot on Hollywood Squaresseem like Shakespeare.

Are you still upset because McDonald's never gave you that promotion to french fries?

She has done other films, plus TV work. Check her bio and you will see that. Just because she hasn't done big work doesn't mean she wasn't working.

Why are people surprised anymore? This is how Hollywood works. Even if you're an Oscar-quality talent, if you do enough badly-performing movies (especially consecutively) your career is going to take a hit. As this thread points out, LOTS of actors have had early or even late success in their careers only to stall out because the later box office returns sucked.
It's stupid, but somehow Hollywood blames the actor for the profit margin. I especially hate it when an actor is a good, but underrated movie that tanks.
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I swear to GodI swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!

She has decades to go, seriously! She is 46 years old. She can guest star on TV, but she is old by Hollywood standards. Therefore, her film career kaput!

She's already had more career than most actors and she still has decades to go. I wouldn't call her out of the race just yet.
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Kalamata pretty much nailed it.

@Kalamata Now that you mention it, early on it might be better career-wise to get nominated rather than winning an Oscar.
I'm thinking of Spielberg and Pacino - they got nominated plenty of times early on, which gives a boost without the baggage, but didn't actually win it until later on.

For many in the industry, getting an Oscar early in your career is the kiss of death. Everyone treats you differently. People are afraid to hire you. They think you will ask for too much money, they are wary thinking you won't find the part big enough or worthy enoughd. Add to that the possibility that Ms. Sorvino might be attracted to parts that may be fun to do but aren't career builders. Add 4 kids - late in life, enjoying parenthood, and you might miss a particular moment that's illusive yet critical to gaining the next step in your career. It is harder to maintain a career than to shoot to stardom early. It's something that keeps all artists awake at night: what do I do NOW? I think Ms. Sorvino's part picker isn't neccessarily the most acute, and she seems to be happy with that.Sent from my Samsung smartphone on AT&T

yah but the difference is mira's career went way down i'm talking can't get any holllywood movie role. we've almes never seen such a dramatic drop off in a career so quickly and so near the beginning of it. i mean she literally started in 1995 then was out of work in big movies by 2000.
lukejbarnett

You also forgot Spike Lee, who she worked with twice. I think the thing is that she has kept working steadily and is not just doing films to cash in on the win. She is still busy working and even though we do not hear from her all the time, she is still there.

wowwhy the harshness? So she peaked early,since the Oscar, she's worked with G del Toro, Nancy Savoca, M Brando, Tim Blake Nelson, etcwas anyone expecting the next Julia Roberts-like box office champ? BTW, since the Oscar, what happened to R Zellweger, J Connelly, C Zeta-Jones, and dozens of others?
5b4Careers go up & down!

You're right, Mira Sorvino was one of Hollywood's "It" girls back in the late 90s to early 2000s. Then her acting career plateaued. We don't know what happened. At least she has steady acting work to pay the rent and the bills. It's far, far better than falling into obscurity and unemployment because there's nothing more pitiful than seeing a once mighty actress or actor reduced to poverty and beggary.

Alas, there are SEVERAL actors/actresses whose careers go to **** after getting an Oscar: Timothy Hutton, Louis Gossett Jr., Cuba Gooding Jr., etc.
It's akin to the "one-hit wonder" phenomena in the world of music one can have the HUGEST SONG in the world, but if one does not have a successful FOLLOW-UP in, say, 3 to 6 months AFTERWARD, one can be historyor still have a career but no longer be "big news." Example: Joan Osborne her "Relish" album was MASSIVE, but its follow up was a relative stiff. She still has a career, but is an "it girl" no more.

and never did underwear commercials where she basically humps MJ's leg

Mira did get an Oscar 'tard. At least she didn't do Snow Dogs.
Even the most primitive society has an innate respect for the insane.

LOL At least he's got an Oscar.
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She has become the female Cuba Gooding Jr.
"Don't worry, I'm a gun club member, I'm taking these rookies downtown".

That pretty much sums it up. She cashed in on her Oscar win for a few years, but nothing she did saw much suc5b4cess, so the offers dried up, and then of course she began to age as a female in Hollywood.
No shame, she was welcomed with open arms to the D-List by Tom Sizemore.
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@dirkfallows.No criticizing her for getting married or having children. She was never a star to begin with. Winning an oscar doesn't always mean much cause some of the greats took years to win one. She wasn't very talented.

She doesn't deserve any criticism whatsoever. Since 2004, she has had 4 kids and an acting credit for every year. I would say she's been very busy.

http://lebeauleblog.com/2011/08/07/thats-so-fetch-mira-sorvino/
Five years after winning an Oscar and Golden globe for Mighty Aphrodite, Sorvino had struck out in just about every genre of film. The offers dried up.
Sorvinos next relatively high profile role (other than appearing on an episode of Will and Grace) was the 2004 sci-fi drama, The Final Cut.
The Final Cut stars Robin Williams as a cutter, someone who edits peoples memories. Even with the star power of Williams, the movie was poorly re1c84ceived and did nothing to revive Sorvinos flagging career.
Since then, Sorvino has found work mostly on TV. Usually in the form of mini-series or guest appearances on shows like House.
Sorvino shot to stardom overnight winning an Academy Award in her first major role. But she was unable to capitalize on her rise to fame and fell just as quickly. Its a shame because if the right movie had come along, Sorvino could have been great in any of the many genres she tried.