---
name: "Mimi Craven"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mimi-craven"
fi1m_id: "mimi-craven"
imdb_id: "nm0186630"
tmdb_id: 13662
wikidata_id: "Q20894406"
roles: []
born: "28 September 1957"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:12:09.587695+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Mimi Craven

## Identity

Mimi Craven

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mimi-craven
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mimi-craven
- **IMDb ID:** nm0186630
- **TMDB ID:** 13662
- **Wikidata ID:** Q20894406
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20894406, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0186630/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13662

Actor. Born 28 September 1957 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

## Details

- **Born:** 28 September 1957, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- **Also known as:** Mimi Meyer-Craven, Mimi Meyer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20894406, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0186630/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13662

## Biography

Mimi Craven is an American actress. Born Millicent Eleanor Meyer on 28 September 1957 in Indianapolis, Indiana, she trained in ballet at Indiana University before working as a flight attendant for Delta Airlines. She began acting in the early 1980s, initially credited as Mimi Meyer.

Her early film roles include Arcane's Secretary in *Swamp Thing* (1982) and Nurse in *A Nightmare on Elm Street* (1984), the latter directed by Wes Craven, to whom she was married from 1982 to 1987. She has appeared in supporting parts in films such as *Mikey* (1992), *Last Dance* (1996) and *Timescape* (1992), and on television in episodes of *Seinfeld*, *ER*, *Star Trek: Voyager* and *Martial Law*.

Craven has also worked as a semi-professional photographer, with portraits published in magazines including *In Style* and *Movieline*.

*Sources: imdb.com, whosdatedwho.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Nightmare on Elm Street* (1984), Fi1m 83, as Nurse — [page](https://film.one/film/a-nightmare-on-elm-street.md)

## Also known for

- *Star Trek: Voyager* (1995), Jisa
- *Swamp Thing* (1982), Arcane's Secretary
- *Beauty and the Beast* (1987), Rebecca
- *Martial Law* (1998), Erin Walker
- *Last Dance* (1996), Stripper in Bar
- *Mikey* (1992), Rachel Trenton
- *Timescape* (1992), Carolyn
- *L.A. Law* (1986), Pamela Riesenfelt

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