Mimi Rogers

Miriam Rogers (née Spickler; born January 27, 1956) is an American actress.

Her early television roles included guest spots on Hill Street Blues (1981) as a love interest for officer Andy Renko (Charles Haid), as well as Magnum, P.I. (1982), and Hart to Hart (1983).

In 1982, Rogers starred in the made-for-TV-movie Hear No Evil as Meg.

She made her feature film debut in the sports comedy Blue Skies Again (1983).

Between 1983 and 1984, she worked extensively in television as a series regular on The Rousters and as supermodel Blair Harper-Fenton in Paper Dolls.

Her 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), Bosch (2014–2021), and Bosch: Legacy (2022).

Rogers was born Miriam Ann Spickler at General Hospital in Coral Gables, Florida.

She is the daughter of Philip C. Spickler, a civil engineer, and Kathy Talent, a former dance and drama major.

Rogers's father was Jewish and her mother Episcopalian.

Her father became 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.

At the age of fourteen, Rogers finished her formal education and graduated from high school.

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.

Her notable film roles are Gung Ho (1986), Someone to Watch Over Me (1987), Desperate Hours (1990), and Full Body Massage (1995).

In 1986, she starred alongside Michael Keaton in Gung Ho.

In 1986, Rogers auditioned for the female lead in Fatal Attraction which 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 was in The Mighty Quinn starring Denzel Washington.

In 1990, she appeared in Desperate Hours.

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."

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."

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."

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).

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's "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.