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Mia Kirshner (born 25 January 1975; age 49) is a Canadian actress who played Amanda Grayson in the first and second seasons of Star Trek: Discovery and an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

She is perhaps best known for her regular role on The L Word and as the mercenary/assassin Mandy on 24 (starring Leslie Hope, Penny Johnson, Rudolf Martin, Jude Ciccolella, Alan Dale, Daniel Dae Kim, Glenn Morshower, Roger Cross, Jonathan Del Arco, Gregory Itzin, Tzi Ma, and Patrick Kilpatrick). She also reprised the latter role in 24: The Game, which also featured Andreas Katsulas.

Her television debut was in 1989 in an episode of War of the Worlds, followed by guest appearances in Danger Bay (with Kaj-Erik Eriksen) and My Secret Identity (starring Derek McGrath). She then had her first major role as Sophie Metternich in Dracula: The Series in 1990 and 1991. The early '90s saw her in episodes of TV series like E.N.G., Road to Avonlea, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and Sweating Bullets.

Starting in 1993, she appeared in a number of movies and TV movies like Cadillac Girls, Love&Human Remains, Exotica (starring together with Bruce Greenwood, also featuring Victor Garber), Murder in the First (starring Christian Slater, with Stefan Gierasch), Johnny's Girl, The Grass Harp (with Roddy McDowall), The Crow: City of Angels (with Iggy Pop), and in 2001 had a main role in Not Another Teen Movie (with Ed Lauter, Jeanette Miller, and Michael Ensign). In 2003, she starred in the semi-biographical crime drama, Party Monster along with Wilson Cruz.

The costume she wore in "Brother" was sold off on the Prop Store Star Trek: Discovery online auction in September 2021. [1]

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