Soap opera icon Donna Mills, 83, began her TV career on the daytime soaps The Secret Storm and Love is a Many Splendored Thing, back in the 1960s. But she’s also known for appearing on the silver screen in major studio films like The Incident and Play Misty for Me. The mom of one (she adopted her only daughter, Chloe Mills, as an infant in 1994) has received a handful of Soap Opera Digest Awards for her defining role as Abby Cunningham in Knots Landing, and even took home a coveted Daytime Emmy Award for a guest appearance on General Hospital in 2015.
Behind the scenes, she was involved with Chaka Khan’s ex-husband Richard Holland for two decades, and is currently dating longtime love Larry Gilman. See photos of the radiant soap opera star from her younger years to today in our official gallery of the actress.
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Donna in ‘Knots Landing’ in the 1980s
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Donna in ‘Knots Landing’ With Ted Shackelford in the 80s
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Donna Mills & Richard Holland in 1985
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Donna Mills and Don Shula in 1994
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Donna Mills in 1998
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Donna Mills in 2003
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Donna Mills in 2005
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Donna Mills in 2008
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Donna Mills in 2014
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Donna Mills in 2018
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Donna Mills and Larry Gilman in 2021
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