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Dark beauty; Mia Kirshner plays an ill-fated Hollywood starlet in The Black Dahlia.(Brief article)
Byline: Jane Herman
For a city named after angels, Los Angeles has a surprising number of ghosts. One of the more fascinating is Elizabeth Short, the tragic young actress from Hyde Park, Massachusetts, who was murdered in January 1947 and became famously known as the Black Dahlia. The unsolved case launched a thousand tales, inspiring novels and screenplays by writers like James Ellroy, John Gregory Dunne, and Joan Didion.
"I felt a great responsibility to humanize Elizabeth," says Mia Kirshner, the 31-year-old Canadian-born actress who portrays Short in director Brian De Palma's upcoming The Black Dahlia, which also stars Scarlett Johansson, Josh Hartnett, and Hilary Swank. "Despite what people said, I think she was actually very sweet and maybe too trusting, and her story is very much a fable for actresses in Hollywood."
It's a tough role, but Kirshner, who played a potential assassin on Fox's 24, doesn't flinch from life's sadder stories. She is currently editing an anthology to benefit Amnesty ...
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