Deputy Mira reporting for duty
From Joal Ryan

LOS ANGELES—Mira Sorvino used to be on the run from replacement killers. Now she’s an honorary sheriff’s deputy. The actress was sworn in Tuesday by the Lackawanna County Sheriff’s Department in Scranton, Pennsylvania. For her new role, Sorvino was awarded a badge. She was not awarded a service revolver.
“No, no, no, no...,” said a retired department official who asked not to be identified. According to the official, any citizen, and not just Oscar winners such as Sorvino, can become an honorary sheriff in Lackawanna County—provided he or she completes the required application and passes a criminal background check.
Irish acting great Richard Harris, iconic movie tough guy Robert Mitchum, Martin Sheen, Bruce Dern and Paul Sorvino, father of Mira, have all been deputized in Lackawanna County, the official said. All but Harris received their honorary badges during the Scranton shoot for the 1982 basketball-themed drama That Championship Season. Mira Sorvino attended her father’s early 1980s swearing in. At the time, she was 14, and “a very quiet child,” the official remembered.
On Tuesday, the grown-up Sorvino was accompanied by her family, including year-old daughter Mattea, and husband Christopher Backus, 24, reports said. Backus also took the honorary deputy oath. Sorvino’s film credits include the 1998 ammo-packed action-thriller The Replacement Killers, and the 1995 Woody Allen comedy Mighty Aphrodite, for which she won her Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress.
After a lengthy drought, Sorvino recently notched her first major award-show recognition since the Oscar: A Golden Globe nomination for the Lifetime miniseries Human Trafficking. As a crime fighter, Sorvino has a ways to go to match the most decorated—and tallest—thespian of her generation. Basketball star and Kazaam genie Shaquille O’Neal, 33, is a reserve police officer in Miami Beach, as well as an honorary deputy U.S. marshal.