Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2994
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Mimi Rogers represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 40 years in, and Mimi is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Mimi Rogers appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Mimi. Night Nurse is the clearest case: a film rated 9.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for horror, thriller, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jeremy Garelick, David Frankel, Roger Kumble and others, Mimi Rogers helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Night Nurse (2026) as Doctor Mann · The Doors (1991) as Magazine Photographer · Trees Lounge (1996) as Patty
Career snapshot
Ranked #2994 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
1986–2026
Career length
40 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.3
Night Nurse
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.3
Night Nurse
Most frequent director
Jeremy Garelick
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jeremy Garelick
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 39m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.6
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1990s
6.4 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Lost in Space, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, The Mirror Has Two Faces — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.4
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Gung Ho.
Most productive era
1990s
6 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.11 film | 6.93 films | 5.62 films | 5.62 films | 9.31 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.41 film | — | 4.91 film | 4.72 films |
| Comedy | 6.11 film | 6.83 films | — | 6.42 films | — |
| Crime | — | 6.12 films | — | — | — |
| Romance | — | 6.71 film | — | 5.62 films | — |
| Horror | — | — | — | — | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1986Gung Ho
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Audrey.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Night Nurse
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Doctor Mann.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
14 of 14 films
as Doctor Mann
Directed by Unknown
as Claire
Directed by Barbra Streisand
as Magazine Photographer
Directed by Oliver Stone
as Patty
Directed by Steve Buscemi
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Doctor Mann
Night Nurse (2026)
Performance score9.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Doctor Mann gives Mimi Rogers a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mrs. Kensington
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Performance score6.9
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mrs. Kensington is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Claire
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Performance score6.9
The Mirror Has Two Faces asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Claire is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Magazine Photographer
The Doors (1991)
Performance score6.9
The Doors asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Magazine Photographer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Doctor Mann
Start here. Night Nurse is the clearest statement of what Mimi Rogers does — accessible, 95 minutes, and rated 9.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Mimi at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
The Doors (1991)
Keeps the drama register of Night Nurse but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Keeps the drama register of The Doors but asks for a colder reading of it.
Trees Lounge (1996)
Keeps the comedy register of The Mirror Has Two Faces but asks for a colder reading of it.
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Keeps the comedy register of Trees Lounge but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Gung Ho
Michael Cimino
Director
1 film together
Notably Desperate Hours
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together
Notably The Doors
Steve Buscemi
Director
1 film together
Notably Trees Lounge
Barbra Streisand
Director
1 film together
Notably The Mirror Has Two Faces
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Stephen Hopkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Lost in Space
Roger Kumble
Director
1 film together
Notably Cruel Intentions 2
David Frankel
Director
1 film together
Notably Hope Springs
Jeremy Garelick
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wedding Ringer
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DoorsSteve Buscemi
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trees LoungeJay Roach
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Austin Powers: International Man of MysteryBarbra Streisand
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Mirror Has Two FacesJeremy Garelick
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wedding RingerDavid Frankel
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hope SpringsRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gung HoStephen Hopkins
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lost in SpaceMichael Cimino
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Desperate HoursRoger Kumble
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cruel Intentions 2Six degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Night Nurse
as Doctor Mann
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Doors
as Magazine Photographer
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Night Nurse
as Doctor Mann
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Doors
as Magazine Photographer
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Night Nurse
as Doctor Mann
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Mimi Rogers has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
40 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Night Nurse
as Doctor Mann
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Night Nurse
as Doctor Mann
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Affairs of State
as Judith Baines
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Desperate Hours
as Nora Cornell
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Night Nurse
as Doctor Mann
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Lost in Space
as Dr. Maureen Robinson
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Hope Springs
as Carol, The Neighbor
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
as Mrs. Kensington
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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