Mia Barron
Mia Barron is an American actress. In 2017 she won an Obie and a Drama Desk Award for her work in the Off Broadway production of The Wolves. She is known for her extensive New York City theater credits, alongside her television and independent film work. She is also known as the voice of Molotov Cocktease on the Cartoon Network’s long-running comic science-fiction series, The Venture Bros.[1]
Early life
Mia Barron was born in Toronto and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, the daughter of psychologist James Barron and writer Susan Barron. Her parents divorced and she has two brothers from her father’s second marriage. Barron moved to New York to get her BFA at the Tisch School of the Arts and stayed to get her MFA from the graduate acting program at Tisch.
When she first got out of school, Barron worked extensively in regional theatre appearing in multiple shows at The Long Wharf, The Guthrie, The Old Globe, Huntington Theatre, New York Stage and Film, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Westport Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana festival, and The Acting Company among others. After she settled in New York, Barron became a mainstay in the off-Broadway scene, often working on the premieres of new plays.
Career
Barron was in the 2016 off-Broadway production of Sarah Delappe’s The Wolves, named one of the best productions of the year by The New York Times,[2] and by Forbes magazine as "a milestone for women in entertainment."[3] Barron was in the Broadway production of Tom Stoppard’s Tony-winning Coast of Utopia, alongside Billy Crudup and Ethan Hawke. Barron was in the New York premieres of Pulitzer-winning writer Bruce Norris’s The Pain and the Itch at Playwrights Horizons, and Domesticated at Lincoln Center Theater, alongside Jeff Goldblum and Laurie Metcalf. She has also been heavily involved with Chekhov Project at Lake Lucille, having appeared as Elena opposite Bill Irwin’s Vanya, and Natasha opposite Michael Chernus’s Andrey.
Barron moved to Los Angeles, where she has become a regular on television and in the independent film world, as well as continuing her work in the New York theatre world.
Personal life
Barron has one child, Esme, with her partner multi-media artist Lars Jan.
Stage credits
Her stage credits include:
The World Over, at [Playwrights Horizons] (2002)
She Stoops to Comedy, at Playwrights Horizons (2003)
Big Times, as co-writer and performer, at Soho Rep (2005)
The Pain and the Itch at Playwrights Horizons (2006)
The Coast of Utopia, at Lincoln Center Theater (2006-2007)
What Once We Felt at Lincoln Center Theater (2009)
Spirit Control, at Manhattan Theatre Club (2010)
Knickerbocker at The Public Theatre (2011)
Domesticated at ((Lincoln Center Theatre)) (2013)
Dying For It at Atlantic Theater Company (2015)
"The Wolves" at Lincoln Center (2017)
Film/TV credits
Her film and television credits include:
The Venture Bros. as Molotov Cocktease and Sally Impossible (2004-2015)
Righteous Kill as Jill Goldman (2008)
27 Dresses (2008)
"Grey's Anatomy" as Lauren Turner (2010)
"Elementary" as Lara Banin (2013)
Amnesiac as Officer Rogers (2014)
"Blue Bloods" as Janet Walters (2014)
The Impossibilities as Marlene (2015)
I Smile Back as Susan (2015)
"Modern Family" as Vicky (2016)
"Bones" as Gail Bradford (2016)
NCIS as Doctor Katrina Griffin (2016)
References
External links
- Mia Barron on IMDb
- Mia Barron at the Internet Broadway Database