Donna Mills Biography

Fast Facts

• In 1979 she landed a role on the long-running soap opera "Knots Landing," staying on the show for ten years and received numerous awards for her performance, including three Soap Opera Digest Awards for her villainess role
• After attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for one year, she left and went to pursue a dancing career, dancing in productions at the Summer Stock theatre
• Quote: "(On her character Abby in "Knots Landing") "A lot of her has crept into me․ I think some of the ambition and some of the guts that she has as a character I've kind of taken on․ She helped me in a lot of ways․""
• After moving to New York to pursue her acting career, she landed an understudy role in the Broadway production of Woody Allen’s "Don’t Drink the Water․"
• Made her TV debut in a small stint on "The Secret Storm" in 1966, after which she made her film debut as a main role in the 1967 film "The Incident․"
• After being diagnosed with arthritis she became the spokeswoman for B․E․A․T․, helping to raise awareness about the disease
• After performing in "Come Blow Your Horn" at the Drury Lane Theater, she joined the touring cast of "My Fair Lady," which brought her to New York City