Donna Mills

Donna Mills, born Donna Jean Miller on December 11, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois, is an American actress and producer best known for playing scheming socialite Abby Cunningham on CBS’s Knots Landing, and who in 2026 became one of the oldest creators to launch an OnlyFans account. Her parents were Bernice, née Lantz, and Ambrose Miller, a computer analyst for Union Oil. Some sources list her birth year as 1941. Her screen career now spans six decades across soap opera, primetime drama, television movies and feature film.

Who Is Donna Mills?

Mills was raised in the Norwood Park neighbourhood of Chicago and attended Garvy Elementary and Taft High School. A classmate at Taft, Jim Jacobs, later based the character of Sandy in the musical Grease on her. She enrolled at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she joined Delta Gamma, but left after one year to pursue dance.

Her professional break came with a recurring role on the daytime serial The Secret Storm in 1966 and a part in Woody Allen’s Broadway comedy Don’t Drink the Water. She made her film debut in The Incident in 1967 and starred on the soap Love Is a Many Splendored Thing from 1967 to 1970.

Donna Mills’s Acting Career

In 1971 Mills played Tobie Williams opposite Clint Eastwood in Play Misty for Me, and she took the female lead in Murph the Surf in 1975. Her signature role arrived in 1980 when she joined Knots Landing as Abby Cunningham, a part she played through 1989. The performance won her the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Villainess in 1986, 1988 and 1989.

Television movies followed, including The World’s Oldest Living Bridesmaid (1990), Dangerous Intentions (1995), The Stepford Husbands (1996) and Ladies of the ’80s: A Divas Christmas (2023). In 2014 she joined General Hospital as Madeline Reeves, winning a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Special Guest Performer. More recent credits include Joy (2015), Jordan Peele’s Nope (2022), Origin (2023) and Lifetime’s V.C. Andrews’ Dawn (2023).

Donna Mills’s Family Life

Mills adopted her daughter, Chloe Nicole Mills, four days after her birth on September 12, 1994. She stepped back significantly from acting for much of the two decades that followed in order to raise her, returning to regular screen work in the 2010s.

Donna Mills’s OnlyFans Career

On July 30, 2026, at age 85, Mills launched an OnlyFans account, making her among the oldest creators on the platform. She told Variety and PEOPLE that the account offers a “more direct and personal” connection with fans, built around behind-the-scenes material and daily-life content rather than adult work. She also said the account grew partly out of research she undertook for her role in Margo’s Got Money Troubles.

In an August 4, 2026 interview with Page Six and PEOPLE she discussed the “wildest requests” she had received since launching. Her arrival extended a run of established actresses joining the platform that included Carol Alt and Shannon Elizabeth.

Donna Mills’s Social Media Presence

Mills posts on Instagram as @thedonnamills and on X as @TheDonnaMills, where she shares career archive material, press appearances and promotion for current projects. Her official site is donnamills.com, and her OnlyFans page is at onlyfans.com/donnamills.

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