| BIOGRAPHY
A versatile Hollywood actress, Mimi Rogers did not step before
the camera until she was in her early twenties. As a civil engineer's
daughter, Rogers had a peripatetic childhood, living in several
different states and England. Eventually she and her family settled
in Southern California. An unusually bright person, Rogers graduated
from high school at age 14. Instead of going straight to college,
she spent the rest of her teen years involved with community service
work.
She debuted in television movies in 1982 and the following year
appeared in her first film, the romantic Blue Skies Again opposite
Harry Hamlin. It was an inauspicious debut and her next two films
did little toward making her a star. Up until she played a seductive
socialite who falls in love with a policeman in Someone to Watch
Over Me (1987), Rogers was considered a rather wholesome, even
plain beauty, but in that film, done-up to the nines, she proved
herself as sexy and alluring as any actress onscreen. She got
some positive reviews for playing Christopher Reeve's lover in
Street Smart (1987). Though she has appeared in many subsequent
films, her ascension to stardom proved a slow one despite gaining
some level of notoriety for her brief marriage to Tom Cruise.
In 1991 audiences were treated to their first true taste of the
actresses formidable dramatic talent when she essayed the role
of a spiritually bankrupt swinger turned religious zealot in writer/director
Michael Tolkin's religious-themed drama The Rapture. Her transformation
and subsequent spiritual conflict was nothing short of devastating,
and though she would only appear in supporting roles in the years
that immediately followed, she had made her mark and it was only
a matter of time until her star caught fire. Roles in Killer (1994)
and Full Body Massage successfully balanced Rogers' smouldering
sensuality with her undeniable dramatic talent, and in 1996 her
breakthrough finally arrived with the Barbra Streisand drama The
Mirror Has Two Faces. With a performance that threatened to steal
the spotlight from a star as bright as Streisand, the dramatic
role proved an unlikely precursor to her performance in the following
year's blockbuster comedy Austin Powers: International Man of
Mystery.
Though savvy filmgoers were well aware of her dramatic capacity
at this point, few had pegged her as being a solid comedic actress
- and her role as the snaggle-toothed secret agent's trusty sidekick
revealed a heretofore unseen versatility. After taking the lead
in a pair of respectable made-for-television features, Rogers
blasted into space with the sci-fi misfire Lost in Space in 1998.
Perhaps somewhat disenchanted with her blockbuster status, Rogers
spent the next few years turning in solid performances in such
low-budget fare as Ginger Snaps (2000) and moving into television
on the short-lived sitcom The Geena Davis Show.
A dedicated mother of two, Rogers earned a Daytime Emmy nomination
for Outstanding Children's Special as a result of her role in
the Holocaust drama The Devil's Arithmetic before later appearing
in the family adventure Cave In (2003). Following a somewhat forgettable
role in the abysmal Dumb and Dumberer, Rogers was cast in a key
role opposite Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger in the family drama
Door in the Floor (2004).
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FILMOGRAPHY
• The Door in the Floor (2004)
• Cave In (2003)
• Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
• The Gunman (2003)
• In the Blink of an Eye (2003)
• Charms for the Easy Life (2002)
• Cruel Intentions 2 (2001)
• Ginger Snaps (2001)
• My Horrible Year (2001)
• Common Ground (2000)
• Seven Girlfriends (2000)
• Lost In Space (1998)
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
• Tricks (1997)
• Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)
• The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
• Trees Lounge (1996)
• Bulletproof Heart (1995)
• Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995)
• Full Body Massage (1995)
• Monkey Trouble (1994)
• Reflections in the Dark (1994)
• Ladykiller (1992)
• The Player (1992)
• Shooting Elizabeth (1992)
• White Sands (1992)
• Dark Horse (1991)
• Deadlock (1991)
• The Doors (1991)
• The Palermo Connection (1991)
• The Rapture (1991)
• The Desperate Hours (1990)
• Fourth Story (1990)
• Hider in the House (1990)
• The Rousters (1990)
• The Mighty Quinn (1989)
• Someone to Watch Over Me (1987)
• Street Smart (1987)
• Gung Ho (1986)
• Embassy (1985)
• Blue Skies Again (1983) |
