Mim Paquin
- Actress
- Composer
- Writer
Mim Paquin is a New York-based actor, singer, composer, writer and executive consultant working across all media and theatre. Known for Unremarkable, The System, The Kids Menu (2017). She is a member of Actors' Equity Association, Dramatists Guild of America, Songwriters Guild of America, Society of Composers and Lyricists, the Alliance For Women Film Composers, Maestra, UAC, and America's oldest professional theatrical club, The Lambs. She is known for her brilliant humor, heart, and depth, as well as her meticulous approach to role preparation, and her contagious energy.
Mim was born MaryAnne Leslie Paquin on January 24, 1974 to Leslie Jane (Nekuda) a substitute teacher, trained actor and singer, and to Pierre Arnold Paquin a foreign languages teacher, classical orchestral audio engineer, radio announcer, and singer. She is the fourth child of five children, and was born and raised in her hometown, the historical whaling city, New Bedford, Massachusetts.
She began performing on stage in musicals and plays at age four. Before graduating from New Bedford high school, she performed in over fourteen fully staged local plays and New England Theatre Conference Moss Hart award-winning musical productions, and over forty professional, semi-professional and high school orchestral and choral concerts. While still a high school junior, Mim won Massachusetts Broadcasting Awards for writing and producing radio programs, as well as for her voice over work on commercials.
Her senior year she auditioned for and won the only solo in the Massachusetts Music Educators Association' All-State concert. Mim moved to Boston to attend The Boston Conservatory on a full-scholarship for a year where she studied theater, acting, singing, and dancing in their acclaimed musical theatre program. She left the conservatory to further develop her acting skills and to grow as a musician and composer. Notably, Mim studied acting with the famous casting director and author of AUDITION, Michael Shurtleff in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and wrote, composed, produced and performed her own original music on the Boston coffee house music scene.
While living in Boston, she developed her business acumen working as a temp in Boston's high tech and investment banking industries Harvard Business School, P.S.D.I, and eventually as a fully-employed web master and developer at SoftBank Investments directly reporting to internationally known tech guru, Ted Dolata. Mim continued her acting training at Southwick Studio and maintained her songwriting career. She wrote and recorded original music at Newbury Sound, and wrote music video-scripts and co-directed music videos as part of an hour-long program produced by The Rendon Group which aired on FOX-TV New England.
Without a safety net, Mim left an amazing promotion with her SoftBank family and moved to New York to continue to pursue acting and music. She supported herself in New York by becoming a full-time corporate manager in marketing, media, and communications departments for beauty and fashion industry leaders Coty Beauty, LLC and Nautica VF.
Mim performed in her first off-off-Broadway production, The Odd Couple (Female Version) to rave reviews. BackstageNY said, "noteworthy comedic turns come from MaryAnne as Mickey the Cop with a heart of gold." She originated roles in stage comedies written and staged by John Blenn at both Governor's and The Brokerage comedy clubs. She started her own five-piece rock and R&B band, Neeto, which performed her original music at venues on Long Island and in New York City, and performed live on Harlan Friedman's WLIR FM radio show featuring Long Island's best bands. She landed the lead Nellie Forebush in South Pacific at Lehman Stages performing opposite her future husband; worked as a church music director, soprano soloist, choral section leader; and directed and choreographed local stage productions.
Mim studied classical voice with vocal titan and Hollywood legend, Marni Nixon in New York City, and became a protégé of prodigious Ms. Christina Henson (protégé of Lily Pons and maestro Laszlo Halasz, founder of New York City Opera) while studying operatic voice and vocal pedagogy with her for five years. She headlines with symphony orchestras and choruses in New York and New England. OperaNews' senior editor described her as a "brilliant soprano!"
Mim plays the abused drug addicted mother, Marlene in The System, and troubled veteran marine corp musician, Detective Marianna Price in Copera. Her singing voice can be heard in the opening credits for Things Eternal on Prime Video and in the film The Clown Prince (2019). Mim's original film scores include Two Kisses (2020), The Observer (2004), and Unremarkable . Mim was the executive consultant and script supervisor for the award-winning The Kids Menu (2017) starring Vincent Pastore and Nyle Lynn, directed by Paul Borghese, and written by Richard Vetere.
Mim was born MaryAnne Leslie Paquin on January 24, 1974 to Leslie Jane (Nekuda) a substitute teacher, trained actor and singer, and to Pierre Arnold Paquin a foreign languages teacher, classical orchestral audio engineer, radio announcer, and singer. She is the fourth child of five children, and was born and raised in her hometown, the historical whaling city, New Bedford, Massachusetts.
She began performing on stage in musicals and plays at age four. Before graduating from New Bedford high school, she performed in over fourteen fully staged local plays and New England Theatre Conference Moss Hart award-winning musical productions, and over forty professional, semi-professional and high school orchestral and choral concerts. While still a high school junior, Mim won Massachusetts Broadcasting Awards for writing and producing radio programs, as well as for her voice over work on commercials.
Her senior year she auditioned for and won the only solo in the Massachusetts Music Educators Association' All-State concert. Mim moved to Boston to attend The Boston Conservatory on a full-scholarship for a year where she studied theater, acting, singing, and dancing in their acclaimed musical theatre program. She left the conservatory to further develop her acting skills and to grow as a musician and composer. Notably, Mim studied acting with the famous casting director and author of AUDITION, Michael Shurtleff in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and wrote, composed, produced and performed her own original music on the Boston coffee house music scene.
While living in Boston, she developed her business acumen working as a temp in Boston's high tech and investment banking industries Harvard Business School, P.S.D.I, and eventually as a fully-employed web master and developer at SoftBank Investments directly reporting to internationally known tech guru, Ted Dolata. Mim continued her acting training at Southwick Studio and maintained her songwriting career. She wrote and recorded original music at Newbury Sound, and wrote music video-scripts and co-directed music videos as part of an hour-long program produced by The Rendon Group which aired on FOX-TV New England.
Without a safety net, Mim left an amazing promotion with her SoftBank family and moved to New York to continue to pursue acting and music. She supported herself in New York by becoming a full-time corporate manager in marketing, media, and communications departments for beauty and fashion industry leaders Coty Beauty, LLC and Nautica VF.
Mim performed in her first off-off-Broadway production, The Odd Couple (Female Version) to rave reviews. BackstageNY said, "noteworthy comedic turns come from MaryAnne as Mickey the Cop with a heart of gold." She originated roles in stage comedies written and staged by John Blenn at both Governor's and The Brokerage comedy clubs. She started her own five-piece rock and R&B band, Neeto, which performed her original music at venues on Long Island and in New York City, and performed live on Harlan Friedman's WLIR FM radio show featuring Long Island's best bands. She landed the lead Nellie Forebush in South Pacific at Lehman Stages performing opposite her future husband; worked as a church music director, soprano soloist, choral section leader; and directed and choreographed local stage productions.
Mim studied classical voice with vocal titan and Hollywood legend, Marni Nixon in New York City, and became a protégé of prodigious Ms. Christina Henson (protégé of Lily Pons and maestro Laszlo Halasz, founder of New York City Opera) while studying operatic voice and vocal pedagogy with her for five years. She headlines with symphony orchestras and choruses in New York and New England. OperaNews' senior editor described her as a "brilliant soprano!"
Mim plays the abused drug addicted mother, Marlene in The System, and troubled veteran marine corp musician, Detective Marianna Price in Copera. Her singing voice can be heard in the opening credits for Things Eternal on Prime Video and in the film The Clown Prince (2019). Mim's original film scores include Two Kisses (2020), The Observer (2004), and Unremarkable . Mim was the executive consultant and script supervisor for the award-winning The Kids Menu (2017) starring Vincent Pastore and Nyle Lynn, directed by Paul Borghese, and written by Richard Vetere.