Summary: Brief commentary on Mimi Rogers from a larger feature on cool people. Some really good quotes.

Cool Charmer

Entertainment Weekly, Summer Double Issue, 1993. Part of a spread on cool people.

Transcribed by Deslea


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Mimi Rogers - an actress with all the right parts.

Mimi Rogers is good at being herself. In fact, it's her best role. Whether flirting with Garry Shandling on The Larry Sanders Show, chatting with Conan O'Brien on his Late Show audition tape, or vamping her bodacious bod in Playboy, she's full of charm and irony and utterly free of apologies. There are, of course, her roles: a sexpot-turned-savior in 1991's The Rapture; a murdering beauty-pageant contestant in the HBO series Tales From The Crypt; a killer's wife in the NBC mimiseries Bloodlines: Murder In The Family. But it is in playing herself that 35-year-old Rogers - free of the Mrs Cruise moniker - has proved to be a postmodern actress and completely modern woman. "'Playing' Mimi Rogers feels true to myself," she says, "in a kind of out-of-my-body way." Forget range - this actress has found her center.

-- by Rebecca Ascher-Walsh.