Short Biography

Donna Mills (born Donna Jean Miller on December 11, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her role as Abby Cunningham on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. Donna Mills attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and then gained some stage experience in the late 1950s. Donna Mills began her acting career on television with a guest role on the CBS daytime soap opera The Secret Storm in 1966. Following this she gained a regular role as ex-nun Laura Donnelly on the daytime soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing, a role she played from 1967 to 1970. In 1971, Mills co-starred with Clint Eastwood in the thriller Play Misty For Me, which has remained her most prominent movie role to date. Mills then spent much of the 1970s appearing as a guest star on a variety of television shows such as The Six Million Dollar Man, The Love Boat, CHiPs, The Oregon Trail, Quincy, M.E., Thriller, Police Woman, and Fantasy Island, as well as several made-for TV movies. In 1980, she landed her most prominent role - that of scheming homewrecker Abby Cunningham on the long-running primetime soap opera Knots Landing, a role she played from 1980 to 1989.

Although she has never married, Mills has been in a long-term relationship with Richard Holland. She also has an adopted daughter, Chloe (1995).

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