Mimi Rogers was born to civil engineer Philip J Spickler and his wife. Her father is of Jewish background while her mother is an Episcopalian. Mimi Rogers has been in and out of several schools in America as her family constantly traveled on account of her father's profession. So becoming weary of being a new girl at every school, Mimi Rogers decided to work hard and pushed herself to graduate at 14 from an experimental sort of a private school that allows people to study at their own pace. It was amazing for her to complete education at that pace and still be active in local theaters, which she gradually drifted apart towards acting completely bitten by the bug.
Mimi Rogers showed the same spirited hard work in becoming an actress of reckon. Mimi Rogers made her debut in acting with a television drama "Hill Street Blues" in which she played the role of Sandra Pauley in a couple of episodes in 1981. She has since been appearing in several television plays and films like "Quincy M.E." {2 episodes: 1981} as Corrina Girard, "Paper Dolls" {13 episodes: 1984} as Blair Fenton-Harper, and as Agent Diana Fowley in the cult television series "The X-Files" {7 episodes: 1998-1999}. She also had a starring role of Meryl on "The Loop" {17 episodes, 2006-2007}. Mimi Rogers has also acted in several made-for-television-films "Hear No Evil" {1982}, "Embassy" {1985}, "You Ruined My Life" {1987} and so on.
Mimi Rogers who made her big-screen debut with "Blue Skies Again" in 1983 has got a major breakthrough role in a classical romantic thriller "Someone to Watch Over Me" in 1987. Her other outstanding performances in films include "The Rapture" {1991}, "Dark Horse" {1992}, "Reflections on a Crime" {1994}, "Weapons of Mass Distraction" {made-for-television: 1997}, "Lost in Space" {1998}, and so on. Mimi played mother to Vanessa Kensington in the "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" {1997}. She also produced "The Devil's Arithmetic" {made-for-television: 1999}.