Donna Mills

Donna Mills (1990)

Donna Mills (born December 11, 1940 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American actress. She embodied her best-known role in the television series Under the California Sun as the scheming Abby Fairgate Ewing, for which she received the Soap Opera Digest Award three times as an outstanding villain .

She also received the Daytime Emmy Award in 2015 for her guest role as Madeline Reeves in General Hospital .

Mills was mostly seen on television since the late 1960s. She made her film debut in 1967 in the thriller Incident ... and they had no mercy next to Martin Sheen and Beau Bridges . Her few other well-known cinema roles include Sadistico (1971) alongside Clint Eastwood .

In 2015 she returned to the big screen in a supporting role: In the star-studded movie Joy - Everything Except Ordinary , she starred alongside Jennifer Lawrence , Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper, among others .

At the end of 2017 she was seen on stage in the play Miss Daisy and her chauffeur .

Filmography (selection)

• 1966: The Secret Strom (TV series)
• 1967–1970: Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (TV series)
• 1971–1972: The Good Life (TV series, 15 episodes)
• 1973: Smoking Colts (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1973–1974: Thriller (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1974: Live Again, Die Again (TV movie)
• 1974: Dr. med. Marcus Welby (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1975: The Six Million Dollar Man (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1975: Murph the Surf (movie)
• 1975: Hawaii Five-Zero (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1975: Cannon (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1976: Makeup and Guns (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1976: Quincy (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1976: Look What's Happend to Rosemary's Baby (TV movie)
• 1977: Fire! (TV movie)
• 1977: Curse of the Black Widow
• 1977: The Oregon Trail (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1978: Superdome (TV movie)
• 1978: Doctors' Private Lives (TV movie)
• 1978: Love Boat (TV series, 3 episodes)
• 1979: Hanging by a Thread (movie)
• 1979: Fantasy Island (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1979: Young Maverick (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1980: Waikiki (TV movie)
• 1980–1989, 1993: Under the California Sun (TV series, 236 episodes)
• 1985: Alice in Wonderland (multi-part)
• 1988: Outback Bound (TV movie)
• 1994: Dream On (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1995: Tatort bedroom (TV movie)
• 1996: The Stepford Husbands (TV movie)
• 1996–1997: Melrose Place (TV series, 4 episodes)
• 1997: Under the California sun: You can't separate good neighbors (TV series, 4 episodes)
• 2000: Rude Awakening (TV series, 1 episode)
• 2006: Jane Doe (TV series, 1 episode)
• 2007: Cold Case (TV series, 1 episode)
• 2008: Ladies of the House (TV movie)
• 2008–2010: Nip / Tuck - Beauty has its price (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 2009: Dirty Sexy Money (TV series, 1 episode)
• 2012: CGB (TV series, 1 episode)
• 2014–2015, 2018: General Hospital (TV series)
• 2015: Joy - Everything but Ordinary (movie)
• 2016: Sharknado 4 (movie)
• 2018: Light as a Feather (TV series)
• 2019: turnover
• 2019: A Beauty & The Beast Christmas

Awards and nominations

year	Series / film	Award	category	result
1986	Under the California sun	Soap Opera Digest Award	Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role on a Prime Time Serial	Nominated
1986	Under the California sun	Soap Opera Digest Award	Outstanding Villainess: Prime Time	Won
1988	Under the California sun	Soap Opera Digest Award	Outstanding Villainess: Prime Time	Won
1989	Under the California sun	Soap Opera Digest Award	Outstanding Villainess: Prime Time	Won
2015	General Hospital	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series	Won

Web links

Commons : Donna Mills  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Donna Mills at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website

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1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005234/awards?ref_=nm_awd
2. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061814/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt
3. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067588/?ref_=nm_knf_i2
4. ↑ https://myburbank.com/11/news/donna-mills-opens-driving-miss-daisy-at-the-colony/