Johnny Be Good for Mira Sorvino

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Johnny Be Good for Mira Sorvino

Tue., May. 30, 2006 4:40 PM PDT by Natalie Finn

Oscar winner Mira Sorvino and her husband, actor Chris Backus, welcomed their second child together Monday afternoon, a baby boy named Johnny. The little one was born at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hills and weighed in at 7 pounds, 14 ounces.

"The baby is healthy and happy, and mother and the rest of the family are very, very excited," Sorvino's rep, Ed Choi, told the Associated Press.

The couple also have an 18-month-old daughter, Mattea Angel.

Sorvino, 38, and Backus, 24, quietly tied the knot in 2004, about a year after sharing a love at first sight moment at a friend's charades party. (Maybe they looked at each other and both thought, "What are we doing at a charades party?")

An aspiring actor and fulltime waiter when he met his bride-to-be, Backus has since appeared on The O.C. and Will & Grace.

Sorvino won an Academy Award playing a squeaky-voiced Big Apple hooker with small-town aspirations in Woody Allen's 1995 film Mighty Aphrodite. The daughter of GoodFellas star Paul Sorvino and former paramour of Olivier Martinez and Quentin Tarantino most recently scored a Golden Globe nomination for her role in the Lifetime movie Human Trafficking.

Next up, Sorvino is a journalist who falls for a fellow reporter in the midst of a World War II battle in the romantic drama Leningrad, costarring Gabriel Byrne, and she'll star in the very official-sounding miniseries Covert One: The Hades Factor, based on a Robert Ludlum novel.