Donna Mills

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Donna Mills (born Donna Jean Miller in Chicago, Illinois on December 11, 1942) is an American actress, who first gained prominence as ex-nun Laura Donnelly on the soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing in the 1960s, before playing Michele Lee's unpopular sister-in-law Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner on Knots Landing, for almost a decade. Upon leaving the series she played opposite Clint Eastwood in Play Misty for Me, her most famous movie role to date.

She appeared in numerous TV movies through the 1970s but became best known for co-starring on the hit TV series Knots Landing from 1980 to 1989. Mills' friend (Larry Hagman) even reunited with her for 4 episodes, on which they stir up trouble.

She returned for the series finale in 1993 and the reunion movie Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac in 1997. She has also appeared in The Six Million Dollar Man, The Love Boat, CHiPs, Quincy, M.E., Thriller, Fantasy Island and Melrose Place.

In November 2002, Camille Paglia asserted in an Interview magazine interview with Mills that the character of Sandy in Grease was based on Mills' experiences as a Chicago-area teen, even though no interview questions covered the subject.

She has never married, but has an adopted child.

Mills attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.