Mimi Cozzens

Mimi Cozzens enjoyed a well-rounded career on stage, screen and television in a career that has stretched for more than four decades. She was born Mildred Gloria Cozzens in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Glendale, Queens. Of Irish and English extraction, she was one of two daughters born to Milton (Jeff) Cozzens, a Dean of Boys and track coach at Clark Junior High School in the South Bronx and the Police Athletic League, and Dorothy (Pitt) Cozzens, Dean and owner of NYC's Academy of Professional Children in the late 1940s. She and her sister Dorothy Faith were employed as child models for the John Robert Powers Agency in NYC (Mimi was 3-1/2 when she booked her first job). Her interest in performing was sparked and sustained after she sang and danced on a local TV show called "Teen Topper Revue". Graduating from Newtown High School in Elmhurst, Queens, New York, she studied at Emerson College in the early 1950s before subsequently receiving her Bachelor of Arts in Speech/Drama wit