MIMI HINES,

On August 28, 1958, she and her partner, Phil Ford, appeared on The Tonight Show for the first time. Mimi sang "Till There Was You," and the singers were soon in high demand.

After headlining in many nightclubs and showrooms in the country, Mimi parlayed her career by replacing Barbra Streisand on Broadway in Funny Girl, performing in the role for 18 months. Following Funny Girl, Mimi starred in national touring companies of "I Do! I Do!" and "Prisoner of Second Avenue", as well as productions of "Anything Goes", "Never Too Late", "The Pajama Game", "The Unsinkable Molly Brown", "No, No, Nanette", "Sugar" and many others. During this period, Mimi also recorded two albums (later released on compact disc by Harbinger Records) and appeared often on television.

Mimi continues to headline in nightclubs and concert halls throughout the world, most recently at Feinstein's at the Regency. She appeared with the Los Angeles Pops Orchestra and starred in national tours of "Sugar Babies" and "Nite Club Confidential" and, along with such peers as Rosemary Clooney and Eydie Gorme, on a recorded salute to Johnny Mercer titled "Mostly Mercer". She then toured the world for a year in the title role of "Hello, Dolly!", starred in productions of "A Majority Of One" and "Can Can" in Florida, and in revues featuring the songs of Alan and Marilyn Bergman titled "How Do you Keep The Music Playing?" in Los Angeles and the songs of Rodgers and Hart titled "This Funny World" at the Kennedy Center in Washington and the songs of Jerry Herman, with Mr. Herman himself, at The Schoenberg Theatre in Los Angeles.

Mimi appeared as Mrs. Latimer on "Frasier" and returned to Broadway in the Tommy Tune production of "Grease", in which she appeared as schoolteacher, Miss Lynch.

She also co-starred in the off-Broadway revival of Kander & Ebb's "70 Girls 70," with Jane Powell, Charlotte Rae and Helen Gallagher, was a guest in the final week of "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" and stopped the show nightly in two productions for L.A.'s Reprise, as Letitia Primrose in "On The Twentieth Century" and as Pippin's Grandmother, Berthe, in "Pippin." Recently, she co-starred as Sister Mary Amnesia in the National Tour of the 20th Anniversary production of "Nunsense," along with Kaye Ballard, Georgia Engel, Lee Meriwether and Darlene Love and starred in "And Then She Wrote" at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Springs with Peter Marshall and Christine Andreas.

She starred in the City Center Encores! production of "Follies." Mimi, born in Vancouver, currently resides in Las Vegas when she is not on tour.