Cover Girl Mira Sorvino

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November 8, 2007

Mira Sorvino for President?

Mira Sorvino for president? Ya never know!

The Academy Award-winning actress says we shouldn’t be surprised if she joins the list of Hollywood stars turned elected officials.

Sorvino says she’s been asked about a future in politics ever since making her first official visit to Washington, D.C. about three years ago to speak up for women’s rights and against human trafficking in Darfur.

She doesn’t rule out the possibility in the new issue of Capitol File magazine. “It’s a fascinating prospect, but I think it would be down the line,” she tells writer John McCaslin. “I want to be the best mother I can be to my children, and I don’t think running for public office right now would allow me the time I need to give them.”

Sorvino and her actor hubby, Christopher Backus, have two children, three-year-old daughter Mattea Angel and 18-month-old son Johnny Christopher King. No doubt Sorvino won’t be hiring a babysitter like the one she had growing up in New Jersey. “I actually had a very strange experience when I read The Diary of Anne Frank as a child,” she remembered. “We had a German housekeeper babysitting for us, and when I’d finished the book, I was crying. In an effort to comfort me, she told me, ‘Oh no, this is all lies. Many more Germans died than Jews—only 600,000 not six million. It’s lies, all lies.’ “

Fortunately, Sorvino said, she realized that what she had read was the truth and that the housekeeper was “completely indoctrinated in a denial of the Holocaust.

“It was,” she said, “very, very scary.”

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