Yvette Mimieux

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Yvette Mimieux

Birth name	Yvette Mimieux
Born	January 8, 1942 Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Official site	http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590796/
Notable roles	Weena in The Time Machine (1960)

Yvette Mimieux (born January 8, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) is an actress with a French father and a Mexican mother. In 1960, she appeared in the hugely popular teen movie Where The Boys Are as well as George Pal's 1960 motion picture version of H.G. Wells' classic 1895 novel, The Time Machine, co-starring Rod Taylor. This was followed by The Light in the Piazza (1962) with Olivia de Havilland. In 1963, Mimieux appeared in Diamond Head and Toys in the Attic. During the 1960s, Mimieux was widely regarded as a sex symbol, and this may have affected her acting career, in which serious roles became increasingly elusive. Many of the films in which she appeared after 1963 were both critical and commercial failures. She later appeared in numerous television series and made-for-television movies.

In later life, the 5 ft 4 in tall Mimieux co-starred in the first PG-rated Walt Disney Productions feature, The Black Hole. In 1984, she starred in Obsessive Love, a television movie about a female stalker, which she co-wrote and co-produced. Her last film, in 1992, was Lady Boss, with Joan Collins.

Aside from her acting career, she is also an anthropologist and a real estate investor. She was married to film director Stanley Donen from 1972 to 1985, and is currently married to Howard Ruby (1986-present), founder and chairman of Oakwood Worldwide, the first and largest corporate housing provider in the world.