Donna Mills

Donna Mills
Mills at the 2018 Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival
Born
Donna Jean Miller

(1940-12-11) December 11, 1940 (age 83)[1][2]
EducationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
OccupationActress
Years active1966–present
Partner(s)Richard Holland (20 years)
Larry Gilman (2001–present)
Children1

Donna Mills (born Donna Jean Miller; December 11, 1940) is an American actress. She began her television career in 1966 with a recurring role on The Secret Storm, and in the same year appeared on Broadway in Woody Allen's comedy Don't Drink the Water. She made her film debut the next year in The Incident. She then starred for three years on the soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1967–70), before starring as Tobie Williams, the girlfriend of Clint Eastwood's character in the 1971 cult thriller Play Misty for Me. Mills played the female lead in the heist film Murph the Surf (1975), and had starring roles in a number of made-for-television movies during the 1970s.

In 1980, Mills landed the role of Abby Cunningham on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing, and was a regular on the show until 1989. For this role, she won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Villainess three times, in 1986, 1988, and 1989. She has since starred in several TV movies, including The World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid (1990), Dangerous Intentions (1995), The Stepford Husbands (1996), Ladies of the House (2008) and Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas (2023). In 2014, she joined the cast of the long-running daytime soap opera General Hospital as Madeline Reeves, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series. In 2023, she starred in the Lifetime limited series V.C. Andrews' Dawn. Mills also appeared in the films Joy (2015), Nope (2022) and Origin (2023).

  1. ^ Teeman, Tim (July 18, 2022). "TV Icon Donna Mills on 'Knots Landing,' 'Nope,' and Reviving Her Career at 81". The Daily Beast – via www.thedailybeast.com.
  2. ^ "Donna Mills | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos". AllMovie.