Donna Mills

Donna Mills
Mills at the Los Angeles premiere of Air America on August 9, 1990
Born	Donna Jean Miller (1940-12-11) December 11, 1940 (age 76) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Residence	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education	Taft High School
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Occupation	Actress, television producer
Years active	1966–present
Home town	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Children	Chloe Mills

Donna Mills (born December 11, 1940) is an American actress and producer. She began her television career in 1966 with a recurring role on The Secret Storm, and in the same year appeared on Broadway in the Woody Allen comedy Don't Drink the Water. She made her film debut the following year in The Incident. She then starred for three years in 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 film Play Misty for Me.

Mills landed the role of Abby Cunningham on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing in 1980 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 False Arrest (1991), In My Daughter's Name (1992), Dangerous Intentions (1995), The Stepford Husbands (1996), and Ladies of the House (2008). In 2014, she joined the cast of long-running daytime soap opera General Hospital, for which she won a 2015 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series.

Mills was born Donna Jean Miller in Chicago, the daughter of Bernice, a dance teacher, and a market researcher father. She attended Garvey Elementary School and Taft High School. After being double-promoted at Garvey, she graduated from Taft at an early age.