Mimi Rogers
Miriam Spickler is an American film and television actress and producer. Her notable film roles include Gung Ho, Someone to Watch Over Me, and Desperate Hours. She garnered the greatest acclaim of her career for her role in the religious drama The Rapture. In 1993, Rogers posed nude for the March 1993 edition of Playboy magazine.
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Miriam Spickler is an American film and television actress and producer. Her notable film roles include Gung Ho, Someone to Watch Over Me, and Desperate Hours. She garnered the greatest acclaim of her career for her role in the religious drama The Rapture. Her extensive work in television includes Paper Dolls, Weapons of Mass Distraction, The Loop, and recurring roles on The X-Files, Two and a Half Men, Wilfred, Mad Men, and Bosch. In 1993, Rogers posed nude for the March 1993 edition of Playboy magazine, and also appeared on that issue’s cover. She is the daughter of Philip C. Spicklers, a civil engineer, and Kathy Talent, a former dance and drama major. Her father had become involved with Scientology before she was born, and the organization was part of her upbringing. Rogers finished her formal education upon high school graduation at age 14. She later worked in a hospital for incapacitated patients outside Palo Alto, California, and for six years she worked part-time as a social worker involved in substance-abuse counseling.
At the beginning of their acting careers, Rogers and Kirstie Alley lived together. After her first marriage ended, 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 which eventually went to Kathleen Turner. In 1986, Rogers auditioned for the female lead in Fatal Attraction which went to Glenn Close. Rogers got her breakthrough role when she was cast opposite Tom Berenger in Someone to watch Over Me. In 1989, she starred in The Mighty Quinn. In 1990, she appeared in Desperate hours. In 1991, Rogers starred as the protagonist in The Raptures about a woman who converts from a swinger to a born-again Christian after learning that a true Rapture is upon the world. In 1998, she co-starred in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. She was also a regular regular on the series Ginger Snaps.
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