IT is hard to believe that US actress Donna Mills is 83, but some people just have excellent genes.
The Knots Landing star reunited with actresses Michele Lee and Joan Van Ark, who also appeared in the popular 80s soap opera and all three ladies hardly seem to have aged, 35 years after the TV show ended.
A star mainly of the small screen, Donna has been acting for more than 60 years, beginning her TV career in 1966 with the show, The Secret Storm. Later that year she appeared on Broadway in the Woody Allen play, Don’t Drink the Water.
She then enjoyed a three-year stint on the soap opera, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, before winning the role of Clint Eastwood’s girlfriend in the cult thriller Play Misty for Me.
But it was in 1980 that she landed the role that came to define her career, that of the scheming and manipulative Abby Cunningham in the prime-time soap opera, Knots Landing, in which she starred until 1989.
She later won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Villainess three times, in 1986, 1988, and 1989 for her withering portrayal.
As a high profile soap actress, Donna went on to net a number of TV films over the years. She has since starred in several made- for-TV films, including The World’s Oldest Living Bridesmaid. Dangerous Intentions and The Stepford Husbands.
In 2014, she joined the cast of the long-running daytime soap, General Hospital as Madeleine Reeves, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series.
In 2023 she appeared in the Lifetime limited series VC Andrews Dawn.
Although she’s had a variety of serious relationships Donna Mills has never married. In 1994 she adopted a newborn daughter Chloe, now 30.
