Mia Barron
Mia Barron is an American theatre, film, and television actress. In 2019 she won an Obie award for her performance in Madeline George's Hurricane Diane. at New York Theatre Workshop. Two years earlier, she won an Obie and a Drama Desk for her performance in the ensemble of the Off-Broadway hit production of The Wolves at Lincoln Center.. Recently work on television includes the recurring role of Marcia Morrissey on NBC's Law and Order: True Crime, with Edie Falco, and the recurring role of Emily on season two of Get Shorty. She co-created and starred in a theatrical version of Joan Didion's The White Album, which toured to Los Angeles and to Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre as part of the Next Wave Festival.
Other recent projects include a recurring role on NCIS, Jenji Kohan's HBO pilot The Devil You Know, Comedy Central's show Review, the independent film I Smile Back with Sarah Silverman and Josh Charles, and the independent Half Empty/Half Full with Maria Thayer and Stark Sands, which was nominated for Best Ensemble by the New York Film Awards.
Her stage work in New York includes the recent off-Broadway production of The Wolves named one of the best plays of 2016 by the New York Times, Tom Stoppard's Tony winning production of The Coast of Utopia (with Billy Crudup, Ethan Hawke and Jennifer Ehle), two of Pulitzer-winning writer Bruce Norris's plays; The Pain and the Itch (Playwrights Horizons) and Domesticated (Lincoln center, opposite Jeff Goldblum and Laurie Metcalf) and Beau Willimon's Spirit Control (Manhattan Theatre Club, opposite Jeremy Sisto). Mia has performed in many Off-Broadway plays at the most prestigious Off Broadway houses in NYC. Her regional stage work includes House of Blue Leaves (Mark Taper Forum, opposite Jane Kaczmarek), Farragut North (Geffen Theatre, opposite Chris Noth and Chris Pine), as well as being a regular performer at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. She came to New York to attend NYU's BFA and MFA acting programs at Tisch School of the Arts.
As a writer, she co-wrote and performed in Off-Broadway's Big Times (directed by Tony nominee Leigh Silverman), an adaptation of Chekhov's Ward Six for the Graduate Acting Program at NYU, and an ongoing project about slain human rights activist, Natalya Estemirova for Villa La Pietra in Florence. She is active in the independent comedy scene, performing with Sarah Silverman on The Sarah Silverman Program and in both of Rob Corddry's series Children's Hospital and Newsreaders.Mia voices the long-running character of Molotov Cocktease on Cartoon Network's cult hit, The Venture Bros.
She and her partner, media artist/director Lars Jan, have one child, Esme Jan, born in 2012.
Movies
After receiving 40-acres, an ex-slave family battles man and myth to uncover the truth behind their land.
5.5
- Nov 05, 2015
- English
Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next activity. However, just beneath the façade lie depression and disillusionment that send her careening into a secret world of reckless compulsion. Only very real danger will force her to face the painful root of her destructiveness and its crumbling effect on those she loves.