---
name: "Miriam Shor"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/miriam-shor"
fi1m_id: "miriam-shor"
imdb_id: "nm0794896"
tmdb_id: 18273
wikidata_id: "Q456433"
roles: []
born: "25 July 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-10-07T14:19:13.416246+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Miriam Shor

## Identity

Miriam Shor

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/miriam-shor
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** miriam-shor
- **IMDb ID:** nm0794896
- **TMDB ID:** 18273
- **Wikidata ID:** Q456433
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Shor, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456433, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0794896/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18273

Actor. Born 25 July 1971 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

## Details

- **Born:** 25 July 1971, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- **Active:** 2005–present
- **Also known as:** میریام شور, مریام شور
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 78 (2), 2010s 70 (1), 2020s 74 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 74 to 75 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 6 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Comedy 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Crime 1, Music 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $868m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Shor, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456433, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0794896/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18273

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Pluribus*](https://film.one/tv/pluribus.md) (82)
- **Disney+:** [*My Name Is Earl*](https://film.one/tv/my-name-is-earl.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Miriam Shor

> Miriam Shor is the supporting player who arrives sharp and leaves having been kinder than she first looked: Hedwig's surly husband, the boss on *Younger*, the wife on *Pluribus*. She has rarely been handed the lead, and she has rarely needed it.

Watch Yitzhak in *Hedwig and the Angry Inch* (2001) for a minute before anyone tells you who is playing him. A sullen Croatian-Jewish ex-drag queen, Hedwig's husband and backing singer, built out of a wig, a bad mood and a costume that has given up, and underneath it a woman from Minneapolis who had played the part off-Broadway for two years before John Cameron Mitchell put it on film. We spent the opening stretch of the film unsure what we were looking at and then stopped minding, because the scowl was so complete that the question no longer mattered. That is what she does: she commits to the surface so hard that the person underneath arrives as a surprise.

The years after Hedwig were a long apprenticeship in other people's cancelled sitcoms. *Then Came You*, *Inside Schwartz*, *Big Day* (2006), *Swingtown* (2008) and *GCB* (2012) each gave her a season or less, and there were guest spots, among them Gwen Waters on *My Name Is Earl*, a series we liked and whose review does not mention her, which is the lot of a guest in a sitcom that busy. Then *Younger* arrived in 2015 and kept her for seven seasons as Diana Trout, a marketing executive who starts as the demanding boss and is allowed, slowly, to become somebody. She directed two episodes along the way. Around and after it the parts have been smaller and often better: Erica Haskard in the final season of *The Americans* (2018), a run on *Jessica Jones*, Paula Baderman in *American Fiction* (2023), the alien Recorder Vim in *Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3* (2023), and Helen, Rhea Seehorn's wife and manager, in Vince Gilligan's *Pluribus* (2025).

The parts have a shape. Shor is sent on as the sharp professional woman, the one with the authority and the quick tongue, and she plays the authority straight; she does not wink at it or ask to be liked. Then, when the script allows, she lets something give. On *Younger* that took years. On *Pluribus* it takes a handful of scenes, and our own review, busy with Seehorn, did not stop to single her out, which says something about how little screen time she had and nothing about what she did with it. She has said she is an actor because she wants to play characters vastly different from herself, and the record bears it out: a man in a wig, an alien under prosthetics, a boss who apologises for nothing.

She has also started directing, with those two episodes of *Younger* and a documentary, *My NDA*, in 2026. The temptation for a viewer is to wait for the big part. Do not. The small ones are where she has done her best work, and the films and series around them, from *Hedwig* to *Pluribus*, have usually been worth the evening anyway.

## Biography

Miriam Shor is an American actress. Born on 25 July 1971 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she studied theatre at the University of Michigan before moving to New York in the early 1990s.

She gained prominence for her role as Yitzhak in the Off-Broadway and film versions of the rock musical *Hedwig and the Angry Inch* (1998–2001). Shor starred as Diana Trout in the comedy-drama series *Younger* (2015–2021) and has appeared in films including *Bedazzled* (2000), *The Americans* (2013), *Maestro* (2023), *Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3* (2023) and *American Fiction* (2023).

In 2025 she played Helen in the Apple TV+ series *Pluribus*, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (7)

- *Pluribus* (2025), Fi1m 82, as Helen — [page](https://film.one/tv/pluribus.md)
- *American Fiction* (2023), Fi1m 73, as Paula Baderman — [page](https://film.one/film/american-fiction.md)
- *Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3* (2023), Fi1m 71, as Recorder Vim — [page](https://film.one/film/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3.md)
- *Maestro* (2023), Fi1m 72, as Cynthia O'Neal — [page](https://film.one/film/maestro.md)
- *Mildred Pierce* (2011), Fi1m 70, as Anna — [page](https://film.one/tv/mildred-pierce.md)
- *Damages* (2007), Fi1m 78, as Carrie Parsons — [page](https://film.one/tv/damages.md)
- *My Name Is Earl* (2005), Fi1m 77, as Gwen Waters — [page](https://film.one/tv/my-name-is-earl.md)

## Complete filmography (46)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *My NDA* (2026), Director, Producer, Writer
- *The Dinner Plan* (2025), as Camille
- *Pluribus* (2025), series, as Helen — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/pluribus.md)
- *Magic Hour* (2025), as Harriet
- *Before* (2024), series, as Sue Ann
- *Maestro* (2023), as Cynthia O'Neal — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/maestro.md)
- *American Fiction* (2023), as Paula Baderman — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/american-fiction.md)
- *Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3* (2023), as Recorder Vim — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3.md)
- *And Just Like That…* (2021), series, as Amelia Carsey
- *The Midnight Sky* (2020), as Mitchell's Wife
- *Before/During/After* (2020), as Insecure Irene
- *Lost Girls* (2020), as Lorraine
- *Marvel's Jessica Jones* (2015), series, as Alisa Jones
- *Puerto Ricans in Paris* (2015), as Sargent Nora
- *Younger* (2015), series, as Diana Trout · Director
- *The Mysteries of Laura* (2014), series, as Eleanor Caldecott
- *5 Flights Up* (2014), as Cool Lady
- *Broad City* (2014), series, as Crying neighbor — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/broad-city.md)
- *The Americans* (2013), series, as Erica Haskard — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-americans.md)
- *That's What She Said* (2012), as Rhoda
- *Elementary* (2012), series, as Jennifer Bader
- *GCB* (2012), series, as Cricket Caruth-Reilly
- *Mildred Pierce* (2011), series, as Anna — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/mildred-pierce.md)
- *The Good Wife* (2009), series, as Mandy Post — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-wife.md)
- *Swingtown* (2008), series, as Janet Thompson
- *Damages* (2007), series, as Carrie Parsons — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/damages.md)
- *The Cake Eaters* (2007), as Stephanie
- *Big Day* (2006), series, as Becca
- *Shortbus* (2006), as Cheryl
- *My Name Is Earl* (2005), series, as Gwen Waters — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/my-name-is-earl.md)
- *Lbs.* (2004), as Lara Griffin
- *Married to the Kellys* (2003), series, as Justine
- *Set Set Spike* (2002), as Mother
- *Merrily We Roll Along* (2002), as Mary Flynn
- *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Rebecca Slater
- *Inside Schwartz* (2001), series, as Julie Hermann
- *Hedwig and the Angry Inch* (2001), as Yitzhak
- *Bedazzled* (2000), as Carol / Penthouse Hostess
- *Deadline* (2000), series, as Rachel Blake
- *Then Came You* (2000), series, as Cheryl
- *Entropy* (1999), as Blind Date #2
- *Let It Snow* (1999), as Beth
- *The West Wing* (1999), series, as Christine — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-west-wing.md)
- *Flushed* (1999), as Stephanie
- *Becker* (1998), series, as Rosie, DMV Employee
- *Hedwig and the Angry Inch* (1998), as Yitzhak

## Gallery

- ![In the extended interview, SIDEWALKS host Lori Rosales talks to "Younger" star Miriam Shor and creator Darren Star about Star's inspiration of his TV shows; why (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/23794/gallery-3c7643ac260b.jpg) In the extended interview, SIDEWALKS host Lori Rosales talks to "Younger" star Miriam Shor and creator Darren Star about Star's inspiration of his TV shows; why (2017) — Sidewalks Entertainment, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Miriam_Shor_and_Darren_Star_on_Sidewalks_Entertainment_about_Younger.jpg/1280px-Miriam_Shor_and_Darren_Star_on_Sidewalks_Entertainment_about_Younger.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Miriam Shor](https://film.one/media/person/23794/gallery-ed8829c56ec2.jpg) Miriam Shor — Sidewalks Entertainment, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Miriam_Shor_on_Sidewalks_Entertainment_about_Younger.jpg/1280px-Miriam_Shor_on_Sidewalks_Entertainment_about_Younger.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Miriam Shor](https://film.one/media/person/23794/gallery-f2f73b6a4066.jpg) Miriam Shor — Image via TMDB
- ![Miriam Shor](https://film.one/media/person/23794/gallery-dc7117998b53.jpg) Miriam Shor — Image via TMDB

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