I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.

In 2011 Mia Kirshner voiced the title character in Bear 71 a National Film Board of Canada web documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. In the book four different groups of women and children refugees from places such as Chechnya Juárez Burma and Malawi tell their life stories. [citation needed] The following year Mia Kirshner starred in Atom Egoyan's Exotica.

She is best known for her role as Jenny Schecter on the cable TV series The L Word (2004–2009) and for her recurring guest role as Mandy on the TV series 24 (2001-2005).