Early Life
Rogers was born Miriam Spickler at General Hospital in Coral Gables, Florida. Her father is Philip C. Spickler, a civil engineer and Jewish Holocaust survivor. Her mother, Teri Berwick, was Episcopalian and a former dance and drama major.
The family lived in Virginia, Arizona, Michigan and England before settling in Los Angeles. She attended accelerated schools and graduated from high school at age 14. In place of college, she formulated her own program of study and also got involved in community theater and writing. Rogers later worked in a hospital for incapacitated patients outside Palo Alto, California and for six years she was a part-time social worker, involved in substance-abuse counseling.
At the beginning of their acting careers, Rogers lived with Kirstie Alley.
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