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Who is Mia Sara?

Mia Sara whose actual name is Mia Sarapocciello was born on the 19th June 1967 in Brooklyn Heights, New York. She is and actress best known for roles as Ferris Bueller's girlfriend in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) and as the Jean-Claude Van Damme's wife, Melissa in Timecop (1994). Between 1994 and 2006 her roles seem to be diminishing in importance each time, her last role was a beautiful passenger with no lines in the movie, Nightmares and Dreamscapes: from the Stories of Stephen King. She has also tired her hand on television in the last few years, starring in the two series, Birds of Prey and Lost in Oz, both in 2002, they were both one season failures. She is on the list of "child stars" that haven't made the transition to adult stars, though she was eighteen when she made her first appearance in Legend opposite Tom Cruise, a year before she played the adolescent teen girlfriend in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The list has a lot of people on it who played young teens when they were already eighteen or nineteen but the roles were of children so they are classed as "child stars", having been unable to secure serious roles playing adults since. In March 1996, she married Jason Connery, son of Sean Connery, they had a son in 1997 but divorced in 2002.