Mimi Cozzens
Mimi Cozzens (* 3. March 1935 in Brooklyn , New York City as Mildred Gloria Cozzens ) is an American film, television and stage actress .
Life
At the age of three and a half, Cozzens and her sister were modeling for the John Robert Powers Agency in New York City. As a teenager, she danced and sang on a New York television show called Teen Topper Revue . She attended Newtown High School in Elmhurst, Queens , studied from 1952 to 1954 at Emerson College in Boston and graduated in 1956 with a Bachelor of Arts in acting and speech with a minor in broadcasting from Hofstra University , Long Island .
As a stage actress, she played a wide range of different roles in dramatic and comedic plays and musicals . She made her Broadway debut in Herbert Ross ' production of Neil Simon's I Ought to Be in Pictures when she played Steffy from Joyce Van Patten . She had other Broadway appearances as Mrs. Norman in Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God (directed by Gordon Davidson) and as Doris in Bernard Slade's Same Time, Next Year (directed by Gene Saks ). She also starred in other major productions such as Myrtle in Mornings at Seven (directed by Vivian Matalon), as Edna in The Prisoner of Second Avenue (directed by Tom Porter) and as Gladys and Maggie in the tribute performance with Jack Lemmon (Director: Arthur Storch). She has received several awards for her work in smaller, regional productions: a Drama Logue Award for her role Louise in Arthur Miller's After the Fall (director: Harris Yulin ), an ADA Award for her role Betty in Only the Dead Know Burbank (Director: Jeremiah Morris ) and an LA Weekly Award for her personification of Helen in The Front Room (Director: Michael Kane).
As a film and television actress, Cozzens has appeared in numerous series as a guest actress, for example in Eleanor and Franklin (1976), Quincy (1977, 1979), Golden Girls (1989, 1991), Malcolm in the middle (2005) and The Mindy Project (2013). The films she starred in include Im Sauseschritt ins Dünenbett (1983), Dead on Target (1998), What Would Jesus Do? (2010), Christmas Mail (2010), Love Meet Hope (2016) and The Last Tour (2016).
Cozzens is a member of the Antaeus Theater Company and the Interact Theater Company. From 2011 to 2015 she was a member of the Executive Committee of the Performers Peer Group of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Filmography
Movies
- 1977: Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (TV movie)
- 1982: Police plot ( A Question of Honor , TV movie)
- 1983: Stepping into the dune bed (Spring Break)
- 1990: Night of the Cyclone
- 1991: Danielle Steels Fathers ( Daddy , TV movie)
- 1992: Hydrotoxin - The Bomb is Ticking Inside You (Live Wire)
- 1996: Soul of the Game (TV movie)
- 1997: Opponents out of love ( Tell Me No Secrets , TV movie)
- 1997: Photo Novelas: Mangas (short film)
- 1998: Dead on Target (The Pandora Project)
- 2003: Passions
- 2006: Dead Ronnie (short film)
- 2009: Dandelion Dharma (short film)
- 2010: What Would Jesus Do?
- 2010: Christmas Mail
- 2011: Mardi Gras: The Biggest Party of Your Life (Mardi Gras: Spring Break)
- 2012: The Master
- 2013: Remember to Breathe (short film)
- 2013: Emit (short film)
- 2014: What's Cookin '? (Short film)
- 2014: Naughty & Nice (TV movie)
- 2016: Chasing Life (short film)
- 2016: Love Meet Hope
- 2016: The Last Tour
- 2017: Swim (short film)
TV Shows
- 1967-1973: The Doctors
- 1976: Eleanor and Franklin (2 episodes)
- 1976: Makeup and Guns ( Police Woman , an episode)
- 1977, 1979: Quincy ( Quincy, ME , 2 episodes)
- 1978: Police Story (an episode)
- 1979: The Jeffersons ( The Jeffersons , an episode)
- 1983: Bare Essence (an episode)
- 1987: General Hospital
- 1987: Chief Physician Dr. Westphall ( St. Elsewhere , an episode)
- 1987: One Big Family (one episode)
- 1988: The Model and the Snoop ( Moonlighting , an episode)
- 1989: Family Ties ( Family Ties , a series)
- 1989: Under the California Sun ( Knots Landing , an episode)
- 1989: Murder is Her Hobby ( Murder, She Wrote , an episode)
- 1989, 1991: Golden Girls ( The Golden Girls , 2 episodes)
- 1990: Columbo (an episode)
- 1991: Carol & Company (an episode)
- 1991: Who's the boss here? ( Who's the Boss?, An episode)
- 1991: Morton & Hayes (an episode)
- 1991: Starship Enterprise - The Next Century ( Star Trek: The Next Generation , an episode)
- 1991: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ( The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air , a series)
- 1994: Diagnosis: Murder ( Diagnosis Murder , a series)
- 1995: Women of the House (an episode)
- 1996: The Drew Carey Show ( The Drew Carey Show , an episode)
- 1996: Chicago Hope ( Chicago Hope , an episode)
- 1997: A Heavenly Family ( 7th Heaven , an episode)
- 1998: Melrose Place (an episode)
- 1998: Seinfeld (an episode)
- 1999: Behind the moon just left ( 3rd Rock from the Sun , an episode)
- 1999: Life and Me ( Boy Meets World , an episode)
- 1999: Practice - The Lawyers ( The Practice , an episode)
- 2000: Providence (an episode)
- 2000: Will & Grace (an episode)
- 2000: X-Factor: The Unbelievable ( Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction , an episode)
- 2005: Cold Case ( Cold Case , an episode)
- 2005: Malcolm in the Middle ( Malcolm in the Middle , an episode)
- 2006: The Jake Effect (an episode)
- 2006: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (one episode)
- 2007: Numbers ( NUMB3RS , an episode)
- 2009: Greek (an episode)
- 2013: The Mindy Project (an episode)
- 2013: Work It (an episode)
- 2015: Chasing Life (an episode)
- 2018: Alexa and Katie ( Alexa & Katie , an episode)
Web links
- Official website
- Mimi Cozzens in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mimi Cozzens at memory-alpha.org (a Star Trek wiki) (English)
- Mimi Cozzens in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Mimi Cozzens in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Mimi Cozzens - About Me on mimicozzens.com. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
- ↑ a b Mimi Cozzens on linkedin.com. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
- ↑ Mimi Cozzens on nowcasting.com. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
- ↑ Mimi Cozzens at actorsaccess.com. Retrieved November 16, 2019.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Cozzens, Mimi |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cozzens, Mildred Gloria (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1935 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York City |