Actress Yvette Mimieux who starred in such classics as The Time Machine and Toys in the Attic, died on Monday, January 17, 2022, at her home. She was 80 years old.

Mimieux was born in Los Angeles on January 8, 1942. She was doing some modeling when she was discovered by a talent manager while horseback riding in the Hollywood Hills. In preparation for her Hollywood career, she took dancing and singing lessons and acted in local theater before her first onscreen role in A Certain Smile in ’58.

Two years later Mimieux starred in Platinum High School and played a cave woman in The Time Machine. Then she starred alongside Connie Francis and George Hamilton in the college aged romantic flick, Where the Boys Are.

She was in A Light in the Piazza, played a princess in The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grim, and was in Diamond Head. Mimieux played opposite Dean Martin in the film adaptation of Toys in the Attic. She did a guest spot on Dr. Kildare as a surfer, and, it is believed, that she was the first actress to show her bellybutton on American television. After that, she was in Joy in the Morning, Three in the Attic, and starred in the short-lived series The Most Deadly Game.

When Mimieux grew dissatisfied with the shallow roles she was offered, she wrote and starred in The Hit Lady, as a remorseless assassin. She was in Jackson County Jail, in Disney’s first PG-rated film The Black Hole, and then she cowrote, produced, and starred in Obsessive Love as a psychotic soap opera fan.

Mimieux’s final roles included starring in the short-lived series Berrenger’s, The Fifth Missile, Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception, and her final role was in Lady Boss in ’92.