She garnered the greatest acclaim of her career for her role in the religious drama The Rapture , with critic Robin Wood declaring that she "gave one of the greatest performances in the history of the Hollywood cinema. Spickler, a civil engineer , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and Kathy Talent, a former dance and drama major. At the age of fourteen, Rogers finished her formal education and graduated from high school.
At the beginning of their acting careers, Rogers and Kirstie Alley lived together. After her first marriage ended, Rogers moved to Los Angeles to embark on an acting career. She studied acting with Milton Katselas for nine months and then sought an agent. Between and , she worked extensively in television as a series regular on The Rousters and as supermodel Blair Harper-Fenton in Paper Dolls. In , she starred alongside Michael Keaton in Gung Ho. Rogers played Claire Gregory, a socialite who is protected after she witnesses a murder.
In , she appeared in Desperate Hours. In , Rogers starred as the protagonist in The Rapture about a woman who converts from a swinger to a born-again Christian after learning that a true Rapture is upon the world. Rogers posed nude for the March edition of Playboy magazine, and also appeared on that issue's cover. She later explained "Playboy had been after me for years, and finally I agreed to pose when they gave me complete approval over the shoot.
It was done in a tasteful way, and since I knew that I wanted to have children soon, I thought it might be nice to have a permanent record of my body in its prime. In , Rogers starred as a woman on death row in the prison thriller Reflections on a Crime and received the Best Actress prize for the film at the Seattle International Film Festival.
Rogers later joined an ensemble cast in the critically acclaimed comedy-drama Trees Lounge Her next film was the beginning of what would become a major franchise, when she appeared as Mrs. In , she co-starred in Lost in Space. A year later, she co-produced and co-starred in the Holocaust drama The Devil's Arithmetic.
