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Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino is protective of her four kids: Mattea, Johnny, Holden and Lucia.

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“I have become a very fierce mama bear, and I’d lay down my life in a heartbeat if it could save theirs,” she told PEOPLE in 2010, adding that her kids are “so loving and bright and cute and funny."

Sorvino and her actor husband, Christopher Backus, who have been married since 2004, have done their best to instill “grit” and compassion in their children.

"As they grow, they become more complex human beings and they suffer more intense issues the way every person does, and you have to be there for that," the actress told PEOPLE in 2020. "[Parenting] goes from being constant delight, laughing and exhaustion to starting to realize your kids have so much to give back to you, and you have to sort of meet them halfway and see them as these emerging individuals who are going to have this whole incredibl