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This petite, raven-haired beauty entered features at age 17, playing a clairvoyant dominatrix in “Love and Human Remains” (1993). She followed up with eccentric Canadian director Atom Egoyan’s “Exotica” (1994) playing an exotic dancer who strips out of a Catholic school girl uniform. As Christina, Kirshner was called upon to alternately evoke innocence and a maturity beyond her years. Kirshner made her US debut in 1995 with a bit part as Kevin Bacon’s sister in “Murder in the First” and a role in the ABC movie “Johnny’s Girl”.

The young actress soon found herself in demand, though. After completing a supporting role in “The Grass Harp”, she landed the female lead opposite Vincent Perez in “The Crow: City of Angels” (both 1996). Kirshner then segued to the featured role of Kitty in Bernard Rose’s remake of “Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina’” (1997) and later won the role of a journalist covering a hostage situation in “Mad City” (also 1997). The actress next toiled in several low-profile, non-mainstream films before making the transition to television as a castmember of the werewolf-themed CBS drama “Wolf Lake” (2001). Despite critical praise the series was cancelled early into its first season, but Kirshner returned to the big screen in the youth-film skewering spoof “Not Another Teen Movie” (2001), playing the meanest girl in John Hughes High School. In the little seen but compelling indie “New Best Friend” (2002), Kirshner was especially effective as a nervous, people-pleasing college student who gets drawn into a damaging social circle with disastrous results; and she appeared to great effect in director Bob Clark’s spiritual-minded romance “Now & Forever” (2003). Her profile rose dramatically when she was cast as Jenny Schechter on Showtime’s lesbian-centric series “The L-Word” (2004)–her character, who has only recently discovered her sexual orientation and found herself in the center of a circle of Los Angeles lesbians, served as the lynchpin for the rest of the ensemble.

• Born:
  on 01/25/1975 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Job Titles:
  Actor

Family

• Father: Sheldon Kirshner. born c. 1947
• Mother: Etti Kirshner. born c. 1948

Education

• McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, English literature

Milestones

• 1990 Had regular role in the Canadian-produced TV series “Dracula”
• 1993 First feature film, “Love and Human Remains”; released in USA in 1995
• 1995 Acted in Atom Egoyan’s “Exotica”
• 1995 Acted in the ABC TV-movie “Johnny’s Girl”
• 1995 Hollywood acting debut, “Murder in the First”
• 1996 Had female lead in “The Crow: City of Angels”
• 1997 Cast as Kitty in the remake of “Anna Karenina”
• 2001 Acted in the parody “Not Another Teen Movie”
• 2001 Had recurring roles on two fall TV series, “24″ (Fox) and “Wolf Lake” (CBS)
• 2003 Cast in “Party Monster,” the true story of Michael Alig, played by Macaulay Culkin
• 2004 Co-starred in “The L Word,” a Showtime series which centers around the lives and loves of a group of lesbian friends
• Appeared in Canadian TV and theater
• Raised in Toronto, Canada
• Signed by her first agent at age 13