Joanna Pettet

By 1990, she had quietly retired from acting. She took up competitive poker in 2003, and finished in the money in her first major tournament at the World Poker Tour's 240 player Shooting Stars main event No-Limit Texas hold 'em tournament in San Jose, California on March 4, 2004. She also guest-starred four times on the classic Rod Serling anthology series "Night Gallery" and was a frequent visitor of "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island." After playing an LAPD homicide detective investigating the murder of singer Ciji Dunne (Lisa Hartman) on "Knots Landing" in 1983, Pettet's career slowed down in the mid-1980s. She is a member of the Church of Scientology, and she was once married to Tom Cruise. Her feature film appearance became sporadic in the 1970s, but Pettet re-emerged as the star of over a dozen made-for-television movies during that decade, including "The Delphi Bureau" (1972), "The Weekend Nun" (1972), "Pioneer Woman" (1973), "A Cry in the Wilderness" (1974), "The Desperate Miles" (1975), "The Hancocks" (1976), "Sex and the Married Woman" (1977), and "The Return of Frank Cannon" (1980). She has appeared in blockbuster sci-fi films such as Lost in Space (1998), as well as the cult television series The X-Files (1998-99). During that time, she married American actor Alex Cord and gave birth to a son in 1968. Since then, her career has largely been focused on independent films, most notably the controversial Rapture (1991). Although she continues to do independent films, Rogers is certainly not averse to Hollywood.

Pettet got her start on Broadway in such plays as "Take Her, She's Mine," "The Chinese Prime Minister" and "Poor Richard" with Alan Bates and Gene Hackman before she was discovered by director Sidney Lumet for his sumptuous 1966 film adaptation of Mary McCarthy's novel, "The Group." The success of that film launched a film career that included roles in "Night of the General" (1967), the James Bond spoof "Casino Royale" (1967), "Blue" (1968) with Terence Stamp, and the Victorian period comedy "The Best House in London" (1969). Her breakthrough role was opposite Tom Berenger in Someone to Watch Over Me (1987). Her mother remarried and settled in Canada, where she was adopted by her stepfather and assumed "Pettet" as her last name. Mimi Rogers (born Miriam Spickler, January 27, 1956) is an American movie actress. Her father, Harold Nigel Edgerton Salmon, was a British RAF pilot killed in the war. Talented, blonde Joanna Pettet was born Joanna Jane Salmon on November 16, 1944 in London, England.

For help, see How to Edit a Page and the style and How-to Directory . After the article has been cleaned up, you may remove this message. This article needs cleanup.
This article needs to be edited to conform to a higher standard of article quality.