Who killed Jenny Schecter? A mere five months ago, that was the burning question on lesbian lips in living rooms and local bars from Los Angeles to Little Falls, New Jersey.

Mia Kirshner (Miss Conception, The Black Dahlia, 24) — the astonishing actor who played Jenny, and managed to find the humanity in a character known for uttering, “Adele, the appliqué on the back of your jeans was declared an abomination by the Geneva Convention,” and other psychotic bon mots — is in fact a thoughtful woman who’d rather spend time with her friends than bask in the spotlight of Hollywood.

After a record six years as Showtime’s longest running original series, The L Word finally ended in March, putting our love-to-hate relationship with Jenny Schecter to rest, not to mention relieving us of those annoying alliterations.

What many people don’t know is, all that time, Mia was also focused on humanitarian issues, and in October, 2008, she published her first book, I Live Here, a collection of “visually stunning” narratives told through journals, stories and images, by refugees and displaced people from around the world.
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Thanks to Holly for the link.

Click here to view the video. There was no embed option, or I would have posted it below as well. The interview is a little old (from September 2008), but since I didn’t have it on the site yet, I thought I’d go ahead and post it. Better late then never, I suppose.

Actrice très douée et également superbe (ce qui n’est pas pour déplaire), Mia Kirshner a connu à ce jour sa plus grande heure de gloire aux yeux du grand public dans le Dahlia Noir (elle était d’ailleurs bien la seule). C’est sans compter que Mia promène sa jolie frimousse et sa forte personnalité dans des séries TV, de 24 Heures Chrono où elle avait joué une méchante, à The L Word où elle tient l’un des rôles principaux. C’est autour de la sortie de la saison 4 de cette série, déjà disponible dans les bacs, que nous l’avons rencontrée cet été pour une interview sans langue de bois, où l’on constate qu’elle n’est pas forcément accro aux séries TV et loin d’être atteinte du carriérisme aigu dont bon nombre d’actrices à Hollywood sont victimes. Ce qui quelque part est rageant étant donné son talent.

Source: filmsactu.com

The following new magazine scans have been added to the gallery. Happy reading!

Flare – April 2001
Curve – January/February 2009 (TLW related)
Heeb – Winter 2008/2009
TLW Season 6 ad

I decided to give in and watch the final season and capped episodes 6.01 – 6.03 over the weekend. I will most likely not be doing weekly updates with caps because my online time is pretty limited right now, but I will continue to post caps from this season as time allows. That is unless they pull some crap like they did in S4 that just made my blood boil. I will refrain from ranting about that again though. Enjoy the new caps!

At a Los Feliz café, Mia Kirshner seems nothing like Jenny Schecter, the narcissistic diva she portrays on the Showtime lipstick lesbian drama, “The L Word.” (more…)

Source: Salon.com

On an unrelated note to those of you who emailed me over the past week/weekend, I will be responding very soon. I’ve been super busy at work and home and haven’t had a chance to catch up. I just wanted to write a quick note to let you know that I hadn’t forgotten about you.

Best known for her role as The L Word’s bookish drama fiend Jenny Schecter, Mia Kirshner is very clear about one thing: to her, acting is a “day job.” Since 2001, the 33-year-old actress has devoted her extracurricular energies to I Live Here, a collage-style literary documentary of uprooted peoples in strife-torn nations that Random House released in November. The product of refugees herself (her father was born in a DP camp to Holocaust-survivors parents), Kirshner gives readers a gut-wrenching firsthand glimpse into the lives of the disenfranchised in such hotbeds of turmoil as Burma, Ciudad Juárez, Malawi, and the Russian republic of Ingushetia. With The L Word’s final season debuting in January and Kirshner planning to propel I Live Here into an even more ambitious outreach project, you have to wonder what she’ll be choosing as her next day job.
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Thanks to Paul for the link.

The cable star’s travelogue of global hotspots is elaborately designed and knottily layered

If you get annoyed when actors engage in activism, Mia Kirshner is right there with you. The 33-year-old actress — who played a stripper in the revered 1994 movie “Exotica” and has worked steadily since, most often in roles as a sexualized smarty-pants, like her character Jenny Schecter on “The L Word” — said recently, “I think some actors have exploited their philanthropic efforts to promote a film.”

Kirshner was saying such things because her new book, “I Live Here,” is unmistakably philanthropic. During the past six years, she traveled to four messy and malignant parts of the world — the Russian republic of Ingushetia; Burma; Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; and Malawi -— that have large disenfranchised populations. “I Live Here,” is the product of those trips: Its four separate volumes, one for each region, tell stories about the women and children in these places through journal entries, collages, photographs, paintings, graphic novellas and images of found objects. Kirshner wrangled many collaborators; J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons are the co-authors, and there is a boatload of other contributors, including some of the subjects themselves.
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