Tom Cruise and Mimi Rogers at Orso restaurant in New York Ron Galella / Ron Galella Collection via Getty
Scandals looks back at the determined couple that Mimi Rogers and Tom Cruise created for a while in Hollywood, and which brought the actor back Top Gun: in Scientology.
It was in the early 1980s that Tom Cruise began his rise (strongly) in Hollywood. Along with the dazzling success, he lives in films such as Risky business first then Top Gun: or A cocktail, he meets Mimi Rogers, an American actress who is little known in France. He met her in 1986 at a dinner with friends. He was six years older than her and happened to be a Scientologist. Her real name is Miriam Spickler. His father was one of the few founders of Scientology along with Big Boss Ron Hubbard. The name Rogers comes from her first marriage to Jim Rogers, a man also heavily involved in Scientology.
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Mimi Rogers and Celebrity project
By the time she met Tom Cruise in 1986, Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, had just died. The number 2 of the organization, David Miscavige, is looking for new blood, new followers to continue his world. That’s why he supports what they call the Celebrity Project, which aims, as the name suggests, to recruit celebrities who can share the good word. Ron Hubbard began this assimilation of personalities in the 1950s, inviting Orson Welles, Walt Disney, and even Picasso to join Scientology. But as you might expect, none of them accepted the invitation. Tom Cruise accepts at the urging of Mimi Rogers. The couple married in 1987, and Scientology played a big role in their relationship. A marriage that ended in 1989 when Tom Cruise crossed paths with Nicole Kidman on the set. Thundery daysIn 1989
Mimi Rogers, actress and producer
If the face of Mimi Rogers is a little familiar to us, it is because of her role The X-Files. Within reality, a series where she plays agent Diana Fowley. But despite some of his other famous screen roles (namely Caught by Ridley Scott The doors By Oliver Stone or Austin PowersMimi Rogers will never have real success.
Divorce and Scientology
After splitting from Tom Cruise, Mimi Rogers met producer Chris Ciaffa, a man with whom she had two children and married in 2003. The actor continued his Scientology ascent to the point where he saw his personal life as well as his career heavily influenced by what is still considered a religion in the United States. His successive divorces from Nicole Kidman and then Katie Holmes, as well as the failed romantic relationships that followed, all stemmed from his commitment to Scientology.
Source: Le Figaro
