Mia Kirshner (born January 25, 1975) is a Canadian actress who works in movies and television series. She is best known for her portrayal of Jenny Schecter on Showtime's hit television drama series, The L Word, a show about the lives of a group of lesbians living in WeHo.

Kirshner was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of Etti, an English teacher, and Sheldon Kirshner, a journalist who wrote for The Canadian Jewish News. Kirshner is a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors;her father was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany in 1946 and met Kirshner's mother, a Bulgarian Jewish refugee, in Israel. Kirshner had a middle class upbringing and studied Russian literature and 20th-century movie industry at McGill University in Montreal.

In 1993, Kirshner played a dominatrix in Denys Arcand's movie Love and Human Remains and won a Genie nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. The year after she starred in Atom Egoyan's Exotica. In 1996, she appeared in The Crow: City of Angels.

Kirshner appeared in the first three episodes of 24 as bisexual terrorist Mandy in 2001. She would later reprise the role for the second season's finale and in the latter half of the show's fourth season. Also in 2001, Kirshner played Catherine Wyler, The Cruelest Girl in School, in Not Another Teen Movie. The character is primarily a spoof of Kathryn Merteuil (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar) in Cruel Intentions, and partially based on Mackenzie Siler from She's All That. In Marilyn Manson's music video for Tainted Love, which was featured on the movie's soundtrack, she has a cameo appearance as her character Catherine Wyler.

In 2006, she starred in Brian De Palma's movie The Black Dahlia, alongside Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson and Hilary Swank. Kirshner plays a young actress, Elizabeth Short, who was horrifically murdered in 1947.

In October 2008, Kirshner published the book I Live Here[4] which she co-produced with ex-Adbusters staffers Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons, as well as writer James MacKinnon. In the book, women and children refugees from places such as Chechnya, Juárez and Malawi tell their life stories. The book features original material from well-known comic and graphic artists including Joe Sacco and Phoebe Gloeckner. It was published in the U.S by Random House/Pantheon. It was supported logistically by Amnesty International, which will receive proceeds from the book.

Kirshner was ranked #43 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2002. She and Beverly Polcyn were nominated for Best Kiss at the 2002 MTV Movie Awards for Not Another Teen Movie.

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Mia Kirshner花瞭七年的時間，完成瞭第一本書 I live here. 從2006年傳齣發行一直延到今年的10.14日正式齣版

在慘白、斑駁的牆壁上，被人塗掉最後一個單字的I live here，是這本書的封麵，講著流離失所的人們，特別是發生在婦女及難民區的兒童生存問題，涵蓋四個麵臨動盪與災難的國傢，戰爭不斷的車臣、緬甸的種族滅絕內戰、全球化導緻社會動亂的墨西哥，以及愛滋瘧疾盛行的馬拉威。

I live here是一本圖像書，以日記、紙上的隨筆、短篇故事、照片、插畫、照片拼貼等等方式呈現。其中包含受訪者親手寫的文字或小孩畫的圖，用他們的語言發聲，在Mia大膽創新的想法下，請來藝術傢插圖設計讓內容更加生動及深刻。這真的是一本獨特、非常有力量的紙本紀錄片。

Mia默默的付齣，從開始的招兵買馬，說服／邀請多位纔華洋溢的作傢、藝術傢、漫畫傢；一手包辦所有事，提供陪同她前往該國的人所有旅行資金，更也不會介入他的創作中；有時自已單獨去這些最危險、疾病奪走最多人命、人們避之為恐不及的貧窮戰亂國傢。靠著她的勇氣與熱情，纔有這本書的誕生。

她曾說這本書是目前做過最有意義的事。在慈善事業、人權活動上投入相當大的精神，並創辦瞭I live here基金會。七年來，所有的花費全是從她的積蓄支付，她說，這是值得的，不想求助外界的資助金，靠著自已賺來的薪水，完成自已想做的事，讓她覺得很驕傲。

齣版後得到的所有盈利將全數捐贈、不收版稅、完全沒有領取任何費用。