Miriam Shor

Miriam Ruth Shor is an American actress born on July 25, 1971, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She attended the University of Michigan, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama. Shor describes herself as half Jewish but not particularly religious, with a Jewish father, and she speaks fluent Italian. She is married to actor Justin Hagan, and the couple have two daughters, Ruby and Iris, born in 2009 and 2013 respectively.

After relocating to New York City, Shor built her early stage career Off-Broadway, most notably originating a role in the rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, in which she performed from 1998 to 2000. Her Broadway career includes an appearance in 1994 and credits in Fiddler on the Roof. In 2015, she portrayed Madelaine True in the Encores! production of The Wild Party at New York City Center, appearing alongside her Younger co-star Sutton Foster.

Shor reprised her role of Yitzhak in the 2001 film adaptation of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, having previously taken a supporting part in the Harold Ramis comedy Bedazzled in 2000. Her other film work includes The Cake Eaters (2007), in which she supported Mary Stuart Masterson's directorial debut, and Shortbus (2006), directed by Hedwig co-star John Cameron Mitchell. Lost Girls, in which Shor appeared, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2020. In 2023, she played Cynthia O'Neal in the Bradley Cooper-directed biographical drama Maestro, appeared as Recorder Vim in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and had a role in the drama film American Fiction.

On television, Shor appeared in a succession of series beginning in the early 2000s, including the sitcoms Then Came You (2000), Inside Schwartz (2001–2002), and Big Day (2006). She was cast as Janet Thompson in the 1970s-set primetime drama Swingtown in 2008 and starred as Cricket Caruth-Reilly in the comedy-drama GCB in 2012. Additional television credits include guest appearances on My Name Is Earl, The West Wing, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Bored to Death, and Royal Pains, as well as a recurring role as Carrie Parsons on Damages and the role of Anna in the 2011 miniseries Mildred Pierce. She played recurring character Mandy Post in season four of The Good Wife and held a recurring role as Erica Haskard in the final season of The Americans, with the cast receiving a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. She also guest-starred in the HBO Max comedy-drama And Just Like That, playing Amelia Carcy.

From 2015 to 2021, Shor starred as Diana Trout in the TV Land and Paramount+ comedy-drama series Younger. Her performance earned her a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2018, the same year she made her directorial debut with an episode of the series. In 2020, Shor was cast in the science fiction film Good Morning, Midnight, directed by George Clooney and based on the novel by Lily Brooks-Dalton. She also took a leading role in the comedy-drama film Magic Hour, directed by Jacqueline Christy, which represented her first leading film role.