Mimi Rogers Biography
Mimi Rogers(Miriam “Mimi” Rogers) is an American film and television actress, producer and competitive poker player. Her notable film roles include Gung Ho (1986), Someone to Watch Over Me (1987), and Desperate Hours (1990).
She garnered the greatest acclaim of her career for her role in the religious drama The Rapture (1991), with critic Robin Wood declaring that she “gave one of the greatest performances in the history of the Hollywood cinema.”
Rogers has since appeared in Reflections on a Crime (1994), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Lost in Space (1998), Ginger Snaps (2000), The Door in the Floor (2004), and For a Good Time, Call… (2012).
Her extensive work in television includes Paper Dolls (1984), Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997), The Loop (2006–2007), and recurring roles on The X-Files (1998–1999), Two and a Half Men (2011–2015), Wilfred (2014), Mad Men (2015), and Bosch (2014–present).
Mimi Rogers Age
Mimi Rogers is an American film and television actress, producer and competitive poker player. Mimi Rogers was born in Coral Gables, Florida, the United States on January 27, 1956. Her birth name is Miriam Spickler and she is currently 63 years old as of 2019
Mimi Rogers Early, Husband, Personal Life
Rogers was born Miriam Spickler at General Hospital in Coral Gables, Florida. Her father is Philip C. Spickler, a civil engineer. Her mother, Kathy Talent, was a former dance and drama major. Rogers’ father was Jewish and her mother Episcopalian. Her father had become involved with Scientology before she was born, and the organization was part of her upbringing.
The family lived in Virginia, Arizona, Michigan, and England, before settling in Los Angeles. Rogers finished her formal education at age 14, upon high school graduation. Rogers later worked in a hospital for incapacitated patients outside Palo Alto, California, and for six years she was a part-time social worker, involved in substance-abuse counseling.
At the beginning of their acting careers, Rogers and Kirstie Alley lived together.
She has been married three times. She married James Rogers in 1976, adopting his surname. They divorced in 1980. On May 9, 1987, she married actor Tom Cruise in a New York City ceremony. The marriage broke down at the end of 1989 and divorce was finalized on February 1990.
In January 1990 the couple released a joint statement; “While there have been very positive aspects to our marriage, there were some issues which could not be resolved even after working on them for a period of time,”.It was Rogers who introduced Cruise to Scientology.
In an interview with Playboy in 1993, Rogers discussed her split from Cruise and likened her ex-husband to a “monk” when discussing intimacy issues. Rogers later retracted the comments and claimed she had been misinterpreted.
In 1990, Rogers began living with Chris Ciaffa. They have two children. The couple married in 2003.
Rogers has made campaign contributions to the Democratic Party
Scientology
Rogers’ father became interested in Dianetics in 1952 and later became a prominent Mission Holder with the Church of Scientology and friend of founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Rogers also reportedly became a highly trained auditor with the church.
Prior to her acting career, she opened a “field auditing” practice, the Enhancement Center, with her first husband, Jim Rogers. She was a church auditor for Sonny Bono. Tom Cruise was also a client before being directed towards a Celebrity Centre.
In an interview given to the Los Angeles Times in 1991, she spoke about Scientology; “that philosophy was simply part of my upbringing. And, I think it was an excellent system of belief to grow up with because Scientology offers an extremely pragmatic method for taking spiritual concerns and breaking them down into everyday applications.”
Rogers has left the Church of Scientology, having been described in media reports as a former member of the church.
Cruise biographer Andrew Morton alleged that Rogers’ father had been declared a Suppressive Person after leaving the church in the early 1980s during a cull of Mission Holders.
A 2012 article in Vanity Fair alleged that Rogers held an unfavorable view of the church’s controversial leader, David Miscavige. In Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, published in 2013, author Lawrence Wright alleged that Miscavige had pushed Rogers from her marriage with Tom Cruise so the latter could pursue Nicole Kidman.
Career
After her first marriage break-up, Rogers moved to Los Angeles to embark on an acting career. She studied acting with Milton Katselas for nine months and then sought an agent.
She screen-tested for the lead role in Body Heat that eventually went to Kathleen Turner. Her earlier roles included television appearances in Hill Street Blues (1981) as a love interest for officer Andy Renko (Charles Haid), and in Magnum, P.I. (1982).
In 1982, Rogers starred in the made-for-TV-movie Hear No Evil as Meg. Between 1983-84, she worked extensively in television as a series regular on The Roasters and as supermodel Blair Harper-Fenton in Paper Dolls. In 1986, she starred alongside Michael Keaton in Gung Ho.
In 1986 Rogers auditioned for the female lead in Fatal Attraction that went to Glenn Close. However, Rogers got her breakthrough role when she was cast opposite Tom Berenger in Someone to Watch Over Me (1987).
Rogers played Claire Gregory, a socialite who is protected after she witnesses a murder. In 1989, she starred in The Mighty Quinn. In 1990, she appeared in Desperate Hours.
In 1991, Rogers starred as the protagonist in The Rapture about a woman who converts from a swinger to a born-again Christian after learning that a true Rapture is upon the world. She received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead nomination for her role in the film.
Slant Magazine praised her “spectacular performance, which seems in part inspired by the physical splendors and feral glances of Bette Davis or Barbara Stanwyck.”
In 1993 Rogers posed nude for the March 1993 edition of Playboy magazine, and also appeared on that issue’s cover. She later explained “Playboy had been after me for years, and finally I agreed to pose when they gave me complete approval over the shoot.
It was done in a tasteful way, and since I knew that I wanted to have children soon, I thought it might be nice to have a permanent record of my body in its prime.”
In 1994, Rogers starred as a woman on death row in the prison thriller Reflections on a Crime and received the Best Actress prize for the film at the Seattle International Film Festival. New York Magazine praised Rogers’ “typically terrific performance” in the film.
Rogers later joined an ensemble cast in the critically acclaimed comedy-drama Trees Lounge (1996). She also had a supporting role alongside Barbra Streisand and Lauren Bacall in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996). Her next film was the beginning of what would become a major franchise when she appeared as Mrs. Kensington in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997).
In 1998, she co-starred in Lost in Space. A year later, she co-produced and co-starred in the Holocaust drama The Devil’s Arithmetic. Together with her fellow producers, Rogers received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Children’s Special for the film.
Between 1998 and 1999, Rogers also had a recurring role on The X-Files playing Diana Fowley for seven episodes. In 2000, she starred in the critically acclaimed Canadian horror film Ginger Snaps. She was also a series regular on the short-lived ABC series The Geena Davis Show (2000–01).
Rogers later made television appearances in Dawson’s Creek (2003) as the mother of Jen Lindley (Michelle Williams) and in Las Vegas (2003). She also appears in the comedy sequel Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003). In 2004, she starred alongside Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger in the drama The Door in the Floor.
Between 2006 and 2007, Rogers was a series regular on the Fox comedy The Loop playing Meryl. In 2010, Rogers had a guest voice role on King of the Hill and served as a producer on Unstoppable.
In 2010, she performed at the Geffen Playhouse in Love, Loss, and What I Wore. In 2011, she was cast in the recurring role of Robin Schmidt, a primatologist and Ashton Kutcher’s mother on Two and a Half Men.
Rogers resumed the role in the season 10 premiere episode. In 2012, she made a guest appearance on The Client List. Recent film projects include For a Good Time, Call… (2012) and, alongside Meryl Streep, in Hope Springs (2012).
In March 2012, she was cast alongside Chad Michael Murray in the ABC pilot Scruples, like Harriet, a “powerful and vindictive magazine editor”.
Since 2014, she has had a recurring role in Bosch. Rogers appears as Honey Chandler, an attorney at odds with the titular character portrayed by Titus Welliver
Poker
Having played poker as a teenager, Rogers took up competitive poker in 2003 and finished in the money in her first major tournament at the World Poker Tour’s 240 player Shooting Stars’ main event No-Limit Texas hold ’em tournament in San Jose, California, on March 4, 2004.
She is on the board of directors of the World Poker Tour. In July 2006, she finished in the money (33rd place) at the $1000 Ladies’ No-Limit Hold ’em World Series of Poker event.
Mimi Rogers And Tom Cruise
According to Cruise, he met the Gung Ho actress in 1985 at a dinner party while he was developing Top Gun. She was dating a friend of his at the time, but ultimately they got together.
Though he didn’t think he was ready for marriage in the summer of 1986, they quietly tied the knot on May 9, 1987, in upstate New York. Emilio Estevez was Cruise’s best man. His mother, Mary Lee South, told People her new daughter-in-law was “top-notch.”
Having previously been married to Scientology counselor Jim Rogers, Mimi’s the one who’s said to have turned Cruise on to the religion. “She took him under her wing,” Tom Cruise Unauthorized author Wensley Clarkson told Entertainment Weekly in 2000. (Rogers, meanwhile, has since cut ties with Scientology.)
They announced they were divorcing in January 1990.
“Is that the story, that I was bored with that child and threw him over, chewed him up and spat him out?” Rogers fired back at Playboy in 1993 when asked why the marriage ended. “Well, here’s the real story.
Tom was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. At least for that period of time, it looked as though marriage wouldn’t fit into his overall spiritual need. And he thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument.” She added pointedly, “My instrument needed tuning.”
As for the other rumors being flung about, that he had become too big a star, or their six-year age difference proved too impenetrable, a then 45-year-old Rogers told the U.K. Telegraph in 2001, “The stardom wasn’t really a problem. What did annoy me, though, was the age thing.
Some of the tabloids brought it up all the time and exaggerated the gap between Tom and me. Every six months they seemed to add a year to my age. If Tom and I were still married, the tabloids would probably have me in my sixties by now.”
Mimi Rogers Net Worth
Mimi Rogers is also notable for being the former wife of fellow actor Tom Cruise who has a net worth of $10 million. The ex-Mrs Tom Cruise generated her net worth from an acting career, which spans over 30 years.
Rogers started out in the early 1980s, appearing in much-loved TV series including Hill Street Blues, Blue Skies Again and The Roasters. She began to make a name for herself when she starred, alongside Tom Berenger, in the 1987 film Someone to Watch Over Me.
Since then Rogers was taking more of the leading lady roles in TV movies: she starred in the 1991 drama film The Rapture (1995). She started appearing in more notable movies, which includes Austen Powers: The International Man of Mystery and the 1998 Sc-Fi Lost in Space.
During the height of her career, Rogers didn’t abandon the small screen: she appeared in The X-Files in the late 1990s and the final season of Dawson Creek. At the turn of the century, Rogers starred in Fox’s sitcom The Loop, appeared in Two and a Half Men and had a guest appearance in King of the Hill.
A lifelong poker fanatic, Rogers took up the game professionally in 2003 and has participated in numerous World Poker Tour tournaments. She is also one of the directors of the World Poker Tour.
Mimi Rogers is an American actress, producer and professional poker player who has a net worth of $10 million.
Mimi Rogers Children
Mimi Rogers has two Children Named:
Lucy Julia Rogers-Ciaffa Daughter and charlie Rogers-Ciaffa Son
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