Mia Korf

Mia Korf is an American actress best known for originating the role of Blair Daimler Buchanan in One Life to Live.

Early life and education

Born on November 1, 1966, in Ithaca, New York, Korf is the daughter of mycologist Richard P. Korf and Kumiko, née Tachibana, a fine artist specializing in printmaking. She attended Ithaca High School and Cornell University, as well as Juilliard School of Music. As for how and when Korf first became interested in acting, despite her entry in 1992's The Soap Opera Book: Who's Who in Daytime Drama, which specifically credits Cornell as the birthplace of her "early affinity for stage work," it is evident that such affinity had developed as least as early as March 1982, as witnessed by Ithaca Journal coverage of IHS productions of West Side Story and the 1945 Broadway hit, Dark of the Moon.

Career

Korf began her career in television in 1990 on the NBC series The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd and the soap opera Loving. The following year, she was cast as the original Blair Cramer on the ABC daytime drama, One Life to Live. The character of Blair had many characteristics in common with Korf, including details about her birthplace, horoscope sign and hobbies. In early 1993, she left the series to appear in the Broadway stage play Face Value, a farcical musical partly based on the controversies of the broadway musical Miss Saigon, but the play closed after six days of previews and never officially opened.
She has since continued to appear in numerous prime-time television series, including: Players, ''Party of Five, Danny, Becker, NYPD Blue, Chicago Hope, Nip/Tuck, The Agency, North Shore, Hawaii, Crossing Jordan, Strong Medicine, Cold Case, and most recently Eli Stone. She has also appeared in the feature films Blood Brothers and Jerry Maguire. Korf voiced Theresa Cook in W.I.T.C.H., in D is for Dangerous, K is for Knowledge and P is for Protectors.''