Donna Mills (born Donna Jean Miller; December , ) is an American
actress. She began her television career in 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 (â€"), before starring
as Tobie Williams, the girlfriend of Clint Eastwood's character in the
cult film Play Misty for Me.Mills landed the role of Abby Cunningham
on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing in and was a regular on the
show until . For this role, she won the Soap Opera Digest Award for
Outstanding Villainess three times, in , , and . She has since starred
in several TV movies, including False Arrest (), In My Daughter's Name
(), Dangerous Intentions (), The Stepford Husbands (), and Ladies of
the House (). In , she joined the cast of long-running daytime soap
opera General Hospital, for which she won a 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 Frank, a market researcher. She attended Garvy Elementary
School and Taft High School. After being double-promoted at Garvey,
she graduated from Taft at an early age.
actress. She began her television career in 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 (â€"), before starring
as Tobie Williams, the girlfriend of Clint Eastwood's character in the
cult film Play Misty for Me.Mills landed the role of Abby Cunningham
on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing in and was a regular on the
show until . For this role, she won the Soap Opera Digest Award for
Outstanding Villainess three times, in , , and . She has since starred
in several TV movies, including False Arrest (), In My Daughter's Name
(), Dangerous Intentions (), The Stepford Husbands (), and Ladies of
the House (). In , she joined the cast of long-running daytime soap
opera General Hospital, for which she won a 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 Frank, a market researcher. She attended Garvy Elementary
School and Taft High School. After being double-promoted at Garvey,
she graduated from Taft at an early age.
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