Juliet Mills | |
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![]() Mills in 1974 | |
Born | Juliet Maryon Mills 21 November 1941 London, England |
Citizenship | United Kingdom (1941–present) United States (1975–present) |
Education | Elmhurst Ballet School |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1942–present |
Spouses | Russell Alquist Jr.
(m. 1961; div. 1974)Michael Miklenda
(m. 1975; div. 1980) |
Children | 2 |
Parent(s) | Sir John Mills Mary Hayley Bell |
Relatives | Hayley Mills (sister) Annette Mills (aunt) Mark Weedon (cousin) Crispian Mills (nephew) |
Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie 1975 QB VII |
Juliet Maryon Mills (born 21 November 1941)[1] is a British-American actress.[2]
Mills began her career as a child actress and was nominated at age 18 for a Tony Award for her stage performance in Five Finger Exercise in 1960. She progressed to film work and then to television, playing the lead role on the sitcom Nanny and the Professor in the early 1970s. She received Golden Globe Award nominations for her work in this series and for her role in the film Avanti! in 1972. She won an Emmy Award for her performance in the television miniseries QB VII (1974).
In 1983, Mills joined The Mirror Theater Ltd's Mirror Repertory Company, performing in repertory productions such as Rain, Paradise Lost, Inheritors and The Hasty Heart throughout their seasons.[3] From 1999 until 2008, she had a role on the daytime drama series Passions,[4] for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award.