Mimi as Karen Clarke in 'IN THE LOOP' - BBC Feature
Film premieres at Sundance Jan. 22, 2009. Link for more information - click here.

If Armando Iannucci’s political farce about the road to war through the corridors of power weren’t so funny, it would be utterly terrifying.When a British cabinet minister, Simon Foster, comments publicly that he thinks war is “unforeseeable,” the result is an immediate bollocking from Malcolm Tucker, the prime minister’s testy bulldog pushing for war. Unable to clarify his position, Simon is sent to Washington, where, trying desperately to be important, he meets Karen Clark, a U.S. State Department official, and General Miller, who see him as a transatlantic partner in building a consensus against war. They search for a secret war committee, led by Karen’s hawkish colleague, Linton Barwick. And as farce demands, all parties eventually converge for a climactic shuffle between rooms, in this case at the United Nations. Wickedly sardonic and filled with secrets, lies, leaks, plugs, and faulty intelligence and walls, In the Loop leads us behind closed doors to reveal bungling bureaucrats entangled in petty rivalries, obsequious aides jockeying for favor, and the Keystone Cops of government, including a minister who hopes there’s no war because it’s bad enough coping with the Olympics, and an unscrupulous bureaucrat who doctors intelligence because he believes that “in the land of truth, the man with one fact is king.”But don’t worry. None of this actually happened! It’s just British comedy.

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Mimi has been busy since Dharma&Greg ended, moving from artifice to real-life. In 2003 she plunged into politics to support and accompany peace candidate Dennis Kucinich during his Democratic primary campaign highlighting the need to end the disastrous war in Iraq. She was asked, by Tim Carpenter, to be Chair of the Advisory Board of a new group, Progressive Democrats of America, whose mission would be to take the progressive agenda from the Democratic primaries into the center of the party, renewing its soul with a call to peace, justice and integrity.
Blogged articles she's authored can be seen at www.huffingtonpost.com and www.pdamerica.org. She has continued in television, making guest appearances in the 2006-2007 television season on House, Cold Case, Grey's Anatomy and Medium (and some have caught her beneath-the-radar appearances on Young&The Restless, produced by her friend Lynn Marie Latham, former producer of Savannah, Knots Landing and Homefront.)
She starred, on the LA Stage, in Wendy Graf's LEIPZIG, playing a Boston Irish journalist who discovers that she is Jewish, when her elderly mother descends into Alzheimers and prays in Hebrew. With "Dharma & Greg" in syndication and its groundbreaking first season now available on DVD, the nurturing spirit of the character Abby Finkelstein lives on, inspiring hope in a world that will better reflect that playful yet profound loving care.
Kennedy's career has included Broadway stage, musical and drama; primetime television drama, variety shows and comedy series; Oscar-winning feature film, and behind-the-scenes work as a story-editor and voice-over artist as well as publication as a respected author. She has raised two children, now grown, with her teacher-husband of almost three decades.

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Mimi as Ann Landers

Mimi as Laura Bush

In October 2004 Mimi launched Progressive Democrats of America's first Hollywood fundraiser with a star-studded, sold-out, one-night-only performance of Tony Kushner's "Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy" that also included Sally Field, John Glover and Charlayne Woodard. Mr. Kushner, in an interview, said he composed the piece in fury one sleepless night during the build-up to war in Iraq, hoping it would have a short shelf-life, expiration date Nov. 2, 2004. Alas. But his brilliant work helped fertilize the organizing of nearly a hundred thousand PDA activists across the nation.

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