Donna Mills
Donna Mills
Donna Mills is an American actress and producer. She began her television career in 1966 with a recurring role on The Secret Storm, and in the same year appeared on Broadway in the Woody Allen comedy Don't Drink the Water. She made her film debut the following year in The Incident. She then starred for three years in the soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing, before starring as Tobie Williams, the girlfriend of Clint Eastwood's character in the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth11 December 1940
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character.
The shoulder pads were very powerful-and made the waist and hips look smaller, too.
Somebody like me doesn't get arthritis, doesn't get all the other diseases that come along. Well, it happened to me.
I did a video... and now I have an eye-makeup kit out. I did the video because I got so many letters. I did my own makeup.
The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor.
I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.
You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product.
Rita Hayworth in Gilda... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous.
I found through my fan mail that women... really wanted a role model.
A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing.
I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.
One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes.
My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.
I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.