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Mimi Craven was born on 28 September 1957 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She is an actress, known for A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Star Trek: Voyager (1995) and Swamp Thing (1982).
- January 1, 1
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Jan 31, 2024 · Classic horror fans will likely recognize actress Mimi Craven, who got her break acting in horror movies Swamp Thing (1982) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), before going on to a fairly long and successful acting career. But what has Mimi Craven been up to more recently?
Mimi Craven was born on 28 September 1957 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She is an actress, known for A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Star Trek: Voyager (1995) and Swamp Thing (1982).
- Early Life
- Career
- Filmmaking
- Personal Life
- Death and Legacy
- Bibliography
- Awards and Nominations
- External Links
Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Caroline (née Miller) and Paul Eugene Craven. He was of English, Scottish, and German descent. He was raised in a strict Baptist family. From 1957 to 1963 Craven earned an undergraduate degree in English and psychology from Wheaton College in Illinois. During his senior year, he developed Guillain-Barr...
Craven had a letter published in the July 19, 1968, edition of Life praising the periodical's coverage of contemporary rock music and offbeat performers such as Frank Zappa. Craven left the academic world for the more lucrative role of pornographic film director. In the documentary Inside Deep Throat, Craven says on camera he made "many hardcore X-...
Influences
Craven has cited filmmakers Ingmar Bergman, Luis Buñuel, Alfred Hitchcock, Federico Fellini, Jean Cocteau, and Francois Truffaut as among his major influences. Craven's first film, The Last House on the Left, was conceived as a remake of Bergman's The Virgin Spring (1960). The goat in the dream sequence at the beginning of A Nightmare on Elm Streetwas included by Craven as a homage to Buñuel.
Style and themes
Craven's works tend to explore the breakdown of family structures, the nature of dreams and reality, and often feature black humor and satirical elements. Ostensibly civilized families succumb to and exercise violence in The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes. A Nightmare on Elm Street, Shocker, and the Screamfilms address the process of addressing family trauma. Several of Craven's films are characterized by abusive familial relationships such as The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare...
Collaborators
Marianne Maddalena served as a producer on twelve of Craven's films. After working on Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Patrick Lussier became an editor on all of his features up to Red Eye. Craven tended to employ cinematographers Peter Deming, Mark Irwin and Jacques Haitkin on his films. With the exception of Music of the Heart, composer Marco Beltrami worked on all of Craven's films from Scream to Scream 4. Although he usually wrote his own films, Craven worked with screenwriter Kevin Williamson...
Craven's first marriage, to Bonnie Broecker, produced two children: Jonathan Craven (born 1965) and Jessica Craven (born 1968). Jonathan is a writer and director. Jessica was a singer-songwriter in the group the Chapin Sisters. The marriage ended in 1970. In 1984, Craven married a woman who became known professionally as actress Mimi Craven. The tw...
Craven died of a brain tumor at his home in Los Angeles on August 30, 2015, aged 76.Many actors and fellow directors paid tribute to him, including David Arquette, Adrienne Barbeau, Angela Bassett, Bruce Campbell, Heather Langenkamp, Neve Campbell, John Carpenter, Courteney Cox, Joe Dante, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lloyd K...
Wes Craven (November 1, 1999). Fountain Society. Thorndike Press. ISBN 978-0-7862-2270-4.Wes Craven; Steve Niles (October 25, 2014). COMING OF RAGE #1. Liquid Comics. ISBN 978-1-62665-913-1.Throughout his career, Craven was nominated for and won numerous awards, including multiple Saturn Awards and several film festivalhonors. In 1977, Craven won the critics award at the Sitges Film Festival for his horror film The Hills Have Eyes. In 1997, the Gérardmer Film Festival granted him the Grand Prize for the slasher film Scream. In 2012, t...
Media related to Wes Cravenat Wikimedia CommonsWes Craven at IMDbDec 29, 2020 · Millicent E. Meyer, or Mimi Craven as she would come to be known, married famed director Wes Craven back in the early 80s but had split with him only five years later.
Website of Mimi Craven, Photographer and Actress. 'something to hold' book by sharon stone. Mimi Craven was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, and graduated from Indiana University with a major in dance (ballet).
STV—Mimi Craven tells tales of her Voyager Vaadwaur. From Larry Nemecek.com's Trekland and his Switching to Visual vlog series, Larry chats with fan fave actress Mimi Craven, known for so...
